Mesopotamia Epic Of Gilgamesh Gilgamesh Sumerian king 2 3 god 1 3 man Humbaba monster guards forest Lugulbanda Gilgamesh s dad Ninsun Gilgamesh s mom Enkidu friend counterpart alter ego created by Aruru Ishtar goddess of love Evil kingship create Enkidu Search for immortality wisdom Nature overcome hairy innocent animal w Hunter sex w prostitute 2 dreams meteor can t be lifted strange axe Further civilizing marriage clothes hunting wrestling Enkidu bored Gilgamesh wants glory Gilgamesh asleep battle winds 7 cedars Humbaba begs killed Gilgamesh refuses Ishtar angry Bull terrorizes Uruk defeated Enkidu s dream Anu one must die Ellil chooses Enkidu Shamash defends Enkidu Curses hunter Shamhat harlot but retracts praises Flood then stay awake for 7 days plant immortality through deeds Scandanavia Norse Beowulf Beowulf strongest warrior to defeat Grendel king of Geatland Hrothgar king of Danes Grendel devil that devours ppl chaotic Hall Heorot destroyed by Grendel b c loud partying Beowulf sent to destroy Destroys takes arm Grendel avenged by big mother Beowulf goes undersea to kill w sword takes head Battles dragon dies Ragnarok Gylfi King of Sweden Christian Fenrir wolf escapes bonds killed by Vidar Serpent comes to land killed by Thor kills Thor Surt Hyrm giant Loki trickster kills killed by Heimdall Sons of Muspell ride in to war Hel goddess of underworld Odin god of war killed by Fenrir Heimdall god of dawn blows horn for gods to assemble Garm Hel s hound Prophecy of Voluspa Winter w o summer civil war murder of father son incest devour sun moon eq s flood Warnings troops gather Pagan gods prepare battle Fire destroys earth Rebirth younger gods survive Baldr returns Lif life Lerftrasir life yearner survive new population from them sun s child survives Convo over hall disappears Greece Odyssey Odysseus goes to underworld to get prophecy b c messed w gods journey home to Ithaca Tiresias blind prophet warns Odysseus Antikleia Odysseus s mother Performs ritual of animal sacrifice to attract shades w blood Meets gloomy Elpenor Antikleia Agamemnon w warning Achilles unhappy but ex cited about son fighting for Greeks Ajax refuses to talk b c lost Achilles s armor to him Sees Minos the judge Orion the Hunter Heracles hell heaven Theseus Tormented sinners tityus tantalus sisyphus Tells shades about life above The Myth of Er Er Pamphilian dies in battle Orpheus swan hates women Ajax avoids human life Agamemnon eagle Body doesn t decompose for 10 days Revives on his funeral pyre tell of afterlife messenger of what sees hears Good souls to right bad to left souls know each other share experiences Souls wait in meadow for 8 days journey to column of light Order of Whorls 8 circles colored like rainbow sirens music 3 fates past present future Souls choose daimon order by lot choice of lives human animal Plain of forgetfulness stream of oblivion Homeric Hymn to Demeter Demeter goddess of agriculture fertility mother of Persephone wife of Zeus Persephone marries uncle Hades Hades god of underworld Triptolemus son of Celeus taught rites Persephone taken by Hades while playing Demeter withholds fertility raises child of Eleusis gives immortality but unable Persephone returns but eats pomegranate can stay 2 3 home 1 3 w Hades Thesmophoria 3 day festival form of cult of Demeter seclusion of men fast feast Rome Orpheus Eurydice Orpheus greatest musician on lyre Eurydice Orpheus s wife bitten by snake Orpheus goes to underworld to get Eurydice back by playing music as ritual felt bad for him Pluto says Orpheus can t look back she disappears again Ignores women lovers who try to kill him he dies Aeneid Aeneas Trojan founded Roman ppl Anchises father Sibyl guide Golden Bough Sees River Acheron Charon ferryman unburied ppl shore minos the judge those who died too soon fields of mourning Tartarus judge expiation of wrongs sinners Elysian Fields heroes fortunate Rome future gates of sleep Horn true shades Ivory false dreams Sibyl calls on Aeneas to make prayer to Apollo Aeneas asks for entrance to kingdom promises temple Sibyl urges him to continue Aeneas visits father for info enters underworld thru cave Lake Avernus Sibyl asks for golden bough funeral of Aeneas s companion enter underworld together meets ghosts ask about deaths Challenged by Charon Sisyphus absurd hero scorn gods hates death revolt Futile hopeless labor attempt to enchain death so nobody dies Knows fate yet persists scorns Personal choice to continue rolling rock up mtn to roll down again persists in rebellion Isis throne fertility goddess of life death Osiris underworld dies dismembered eternal life Anubis child of Nephthys Osiris exposed protector of gods Horus has sex w dead Osiris Isis ruled while Osiris away instituted marriage taught Osiris agriculture Hears Osiris dead goes to Byblos Nurses baby to make immortal can t Demands coffin leaves leaves ritual behind Reassembles Osiris s parts but prob w male member mummifies France The Myth of Sisyphus Egypt Isis Osiris Native America The Black Elk Speaks Black Elk great vision 9 Voice came legs hurt couldn t walk became sick limbs swelled 2 men from sky grandfathers are calling you Got up to come picked up by cloud Directed by bay horse 12 horses white sorrel buckskins turn into animals flee Council of Grandfathers powers of world 4 directions sky earth Great vision power to make live water cup destroy bow Given white wing of cleansing Addressed by grandfathers w songs thunder nation metamorphoses peace pipe sprouting stick Walk along road to see 4 generations 5th old man sky turns to eagle 6th earth gets younger turns into himself Black Elk attacks kills blue man Killed turtle ended drought People follow him Ascent of 4 hills 1st peaceful 2nd eagle 3rd people do own things forebode fu ture ills nation s hoop broken 4th will be bad Dark Storm come as 4th hill ascends Power songs returns riding bay horse Revives weak stallion spreads across earth Horses stand in circle 4 virgins w 4 gifts dance flaming rainbow Tree shelters world give sacred herb return to 6 grandfathers Arabia The Tale of Buluqiya Persian King Shahryar Hasib listener Queen Scheherazade tell story King dies father of Buluqiya Buluqiya becomes king quest to find magic ring Sulaiman wise prophet w magic ring Adam original ring owner Gabriel angel stole ring from Adam Affan old man versed in all knowledge magic astronomy goes on quest burned by Buluqiya s magic words backwards turned to dust Queen Yamlika kingdom has
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