STUDY GUIDE EXAM 2 Atrahasis Babylonian flood myth 1700 BCE name means Extra Wise Ellil King of gods sends drought and famine and flood to wipe out the people Belet ili Nintu Mami Mother goddess adds Ilawela s flesh and intelligence to clay and creates 7 males and 7 female human beings Ilawela God who has sense offers himself as sacrifice and is killed Ishtar Goddess of Love and War Shuruppak An ancient city destroyed by the flood during the leadership of Utnapishtim Ea Tells Utnapishtim to build a boat and take people gold and animals with him lahmu creatures Bolt of heavens Coracle A small round boat made of wickerwork covered with a watertight material Epic of Gilgamesh The world s oldest literary masterpiece About the king of Uruk made up of several adventures and themes of friendship fear of death and ambition Utnapishtim A king and priest of Shurrupak whose name translates as he who saw life By the god Ea s command Utnapishtim survived the great deluge that almost destroyed all life on Earth by building a boat that carried him animals family people gold to safety The gods granted him and his wife eternal life imhullu wind Evil wind also used in the Enuma Elish Mt Nimush the boat lodged onto Mount Nimush holding it for several days Erra The plague god sleeps with Nintu Mami Noah survived the flood and built the ark Yahweh sender warner of the flood Mt Ararat Noah s ark landed here and Utnapishtim s home was located here Berit An agreement convenant Anansi West African trickster liminal figure Liminal Means between categories between gods and humans Akan Group in West Africa that tell stories of Anansi Kweku Kwaku Anansi Day name means Born on Wednesday Onyame Nyame The ruler of Gods Ananse Kokuroko the Great Spider Trickster Anansi is known to be a trickster and a spider shape shifting being able to put on a disguise or being able to rearrange the body amoral not good or evil does good things and bad things Mmoboro The Hornets Anansi said it was raining and told them to get into jar and once they fell for it he sealed the jar Onini The Python Anansi tricked the Python and tied him to a branch Osebo the Leopard Anansi made a hole in the ground so that the leopard would fall into it once he fell into it Anansi helped him get out by using his web captured the leopard once he got out Anansesem stones or folk tales Okyeami Symbol of linguists Baduasemanpensa Name of Nyame s daughter it was a secret Lizard Knows the name of Nyame s daughter and reveals it marries her atumpan drum talking drum that Anansi takes pride in Owoh The snake that Anansi borrows money from he kills the snake after framing him for theft Iapetos A Titan lover of Clymene Father of Atlas Prometheus Epimetheus Menoitios Clymene Lover of Iapetos Mother of Atlas Prometheus Epimetheus Menoitios Atlas Skyholder forced to hold up the heavens and Earth Prometheus Trickster god steals from Zeus to give to the humans eventually freed by Hercules after being chained Epimetheus Misguided received Pandora as gift from Hermes Zeus Father of Gods and men rules over the Olympians of Mount Olympus oppressor and tyrant Hephaistos Mixes earth with water and clay to create Pandora fennel stalk Used to conceal fire as Prometheus steals it from Zeus for humans Athena Made Pandora clothes and taught her crafts daughter of Zeus Hesiod A greek poet who lived around 700 BCE writer of Pandora s box Works and Days Instructional poem of farming and how to live a just life Theogony Epic of creation birth of Greek gods Golden Age First period of man when everything was simple and easy mortals lived like Gods Pandora means all gift created as a curse for mankind ends Golden Race Hermes gave a shameless mind to Pandora Pithos a large storage jar Pandora s box Pyxis Box in Greek container used for toiletries Myth of the Races Traces the lineage of mankind through 5 successive ages or races Golden Race No work Live like the Gods die by falling asleep Silver Race Stay children forever generation of man created inferior in appearance and wisdom Bronze Race Strong men Zeus created men from ash trees warlike men homes and armor were made of bronze Race of Heroes Men of this age were more heroic than their successors and predecessors Iron Race Present time all manner of evils came together Zeus is supposed to destroy this age Aeschylus Great Athenian tragedian wrote Prometheus Bound Prometheus Bound A myth believed to be written by Aeschylus telling a story of the punishment of Prometheus stealing fire from Zeus and keeping Zeus from destroyed mankind Caucasus Mountains Pillars supporting the world Prometheus was chained here as punishment liver was eaten by an eagle Might Zeus servant takes Prometheus to the mountain Violence Zeus servant takes Prometheus to the mountain Narthex another name for the fennel stalk Prometheus used to steal fire from Zeus Okeanos Greek Titan warns Prometheus to be more cautious Moirai The Fates incarnations of destiny controlled metaphoric thread of life of every mortal from birth to death Clotho The Spinner made wool or string Lachesis Measured the length of fiber Atropos Not turning away goddess of death Io Hera s priestess Zeus turns her into a cow tormented by Hera gives birth to Heracles Hera Zeus s wife sends Arogos to guard Io and then sends gadfly to haunt Io Argos guards Io with 10 000 eyes and then is killed by Hermes ghost haunts Io Tlingit Collected in the 19th century originiated in 1300 CE Nass River Raven wants to steal light and the man that has it lives on the Nass River Raven Raven is a trickster Raven eats animals bait there is a lot of shape shifting and disguise associated with Raven totem pole Wooden objects marking distinction they tell a story Kit ka ositiyi qa father of Raven Petrel Water master has all the water in the world also known as the seabird smoke hole The hole through which Raven escapes from after stealing King Salmon Raven holds carved tool and tells him to come ashore and ends up eating him Bear he knows where to fish and then kills him Deer walks across light kills him and then Raven eats it Mink Let s Raven know that the tide is being lowered as Raven tortures woman Mink is made to eat urchins Klamath Tellers of the Coyote tale tribes of Oregon Coyote Amoral shape shifting challenges and beats thunder in game of dice wins fire takes off skin and hides to avoid death Thunder Knows Coyote cheated and throws fire rock at Coyote s skin Fire rock breaks and all the animals run off
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