Prima vizită la lehuză -- indicii despre un ritual străvechi.

The article makes use of several Slav bibliographical references in order to suggest that a birth ritual may be associated to the old god Rod. The name of the custom is rodini and it is familiar mainly to Moldavian inhabitant from the northern region, as a result of the cultural contact with the Slavic peoples. Etymology and the use of various examples from Slav languages seem to suggest that the birth deity from the first centuries after Christ left us a lexical inheritance. All the gestures performed by the women visiting the newly born and its mother imply an oblation, both of a pragmatic meaning and of a spiritual one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]