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Until the moment of formation of the great religions, the needs and the beliefs were substantially the same for the man found in any inhabited space, a process that determines their progradation, and equally the transcendence from prehistory into history from the empirical communities to superior cultures and civilizations. The entering of these mental components into a wide process of acculturation leads towards a fertile evolution of the religious heritage, followed by the revealing of the landmarks of identity, of the cultural-anthropological identity. That is why we find the Romanian ancestral, sacred, village and the apotropaic semiotics of the circle, integrated within this traditional-religious osmosis, revealed in the quasi-dimensionality of life.

Keywords: settlement, village, territory, border, estate, population, community, nation, inhabitants, origin, order, chaos, pomp, maleficent, blessed, cursed, rituals, customs, superstitions, beliefs, wheel, circle, enclosure, knot-shaped bread, solar deity, ancient man, christened man, furrow, joint proprietor, peasant, field, rural, rustically