Quelques réflexions sur la tête de Balar et l’arbre de l’axis mundi
Authors: Lajoye Patrice 
Published: June 2015

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;TimesNewRomanPSMT&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">RESUMO</span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: &quot;TimesNewRomanPSMT&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">O motivo da decapitação (</span><em><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">tête coupée</span></em><span style="font-family: &quot;TimesNewRomanPSMT&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">), recorrente nos textos da mitologia celta, é analisado </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: &quot;TimesNewRomanPSMT&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">comparativamente a outras narrativas mitológicas provenientes de diferentes áreas geográficas. Os </span><span style="color: black; font-family: &quot;TimesNewRomanPSMT&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">elementos comparados demonstram uma prefiguração do fim do mundo pertecente ao domíno</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: &quot;TimesNewRomanPSMT&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">euroasiático.</span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;TimesNewRomanPSMT&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;TimesNewRomanPSMT&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">PALAVRAS-CHAVE: indo-europeística; luta; decapitação; árvore do </span><em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;">axis mundi</span></em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;TimesNewRomanPSMT&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">; mitologia</span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;TimesNewRomanPSMT&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">céltica.</span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>