Existencia y poder de las figuras acuáticas femeninas en la cultura popular centroeuropea. Su significación mitológico-religiosa

Abstract

The feminine figure in the phancasy of middle European narrative is deeply roored in the culture of our peoples and landscapes and has given rise to a suggestive subject for perusal. l;rom the Big Mother up to the mermaid of the vast ocean, there emerges a full cohurt of aquatic personages, fraught with a hístory of its own, mistery and a symbolic scrength. In our work we show the evolution of these myths from the classic cultures of ancient times up to their full development in the XIX century in the Germanic countries and, specially in Germany, as well as cheír reflection in the fine arts, above ali in literature. sculpture, painting and music.