Editing Mircea Eliade (section)

==== ''Șarpele'' ====
Eliade's short story '''''Șarpele''''' ('The Snake') was described by George Călinescu as "[[Hermeticism|hermetic]]".<ref name="Căl. p.959" /> While on a trip to the forest, several persons witness a feat of magic performed by the male character Andronic, who summons a snake from the bottom of a river and places it on an island. At the end of the story, Andronic and the female character Dorina are found on the island, naked and locked in a sensual embrace.<ref name="Căl. p.959" /> Călinescu saw the piece as an allusion to [[Gnosticism]], to the [[Kabbalah]], and to [[Babylonian mythology]], while linking the snake to the [[Greek mythology|Greek mythological]] figure and major [[Serpent (symbolism)|serpent symbol]] [[Ophion]].<ref name="Căl. p.959" /> He was however dissatisfied with this introduction of iconic images, describing it as "languishing".<ref name="Căl. p.960" />

'''''In Curte la Dionis'''''

In the relation between history and culture, „the memory acts from the event toward the creation, so that the cultural memory is the prisoner of history."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Doina|first=Ruști|title=Dicționar de simboluri din opera lui Mircea Eliade|publisher=Coresi|year=1997|location=București|pages=89|language=ro}}</ref> When it will liberate itself, the human will escape the labyrinth, according to a character of the ''In Dionysus’ Court'', of which ideal is the cultural memory; but, for him, the amnesia becomes a torment because, although he forgot details of his own existence, he kept the vague impression of a decisive meeting and with the obsession that he is not knowing his place in the universe: he had forgotten the message that he had to transmit to the world.