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In the Romanian folklore one can recognize this pre-historic goddess in the character of Ileana Simziana, also known as Iana Sânziana or Ileana Cosânzeana, the most adorned fairy of the land. She is the heroine of numerous songs, carols, and fairy tales; the most beautiful of all fairies, their queen, so beautiful that ‘one could look at the sun but not at her’. Her epithets are ‘the beautiful’, the moon fairy, ‘lady of the flowers’, protector of the wild animals and the forests. Ileana is a brilliant goddess with golden hair that could symbolize the waving fields of wheat.