Pema e botës (Sipas disa shembujve të përrallave tona fantastike)
The World Tree (According To Some Fantastic Examples of Our Tales)

Summary/Abstract: In this scientific study, there is assumed to be provided data that are dedicated to the mythical world tree, but within the content of the Albanian tales. Given the specific poetics of the tale, also the motive associated with the world tree has undergone certain modifications.The world tree, within the tale, is moved to the outskirts of the underground world, but has preserved within itself the conflict between the serpent (which is related to the root of the tree) and an eagle (associated with the branches of this tree). This conflict, in the spirit of the poetics of the fantastic tale, is of the microcosm and simultaneously anthropocentric size, as the hero in the quality of the human being is the one that prevails over the serpent, unlike the narrative structure of the myth in which the conflict is of the macrocosm size and is developed between beings with supernatural powers that represent two antagonistic principles, namely that solar and lunar.

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