Exam 2 Review Sheet Titles and Cultures Atrahasis Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh including the story of Utnapishtim Babylonian Genesis Israelite Hebrew Anansi Myths Akan Ashanti The Theogony Hesiod Greek The Works and Days Hesiod Greek Prometheus Bound Aeschylus Greek Raven Myths Tlingit Coyote Myths Klamath Greek Heroes Heroines and Nymphs Greek Nixies Kelpies Mermaids Scandinavian German Welsh Scottish AT FOLKTALE TYPE 720 Grimms Fairy Tales German Juniper Tree Mother cooks boy Father eats him Sister buries bones next to tree Bird flies out and starts to sing Gathers gifts Gives gifts to family Kills mother Turns back into a boy The Crow s Nest Hungarian Mother kills boy and makes stew Father eats it Puts bones in a hollow tree Boy turns into a crow and sings Gathers gifts Gives gifts to family and kills mother The Rose Tree English Mother kills daughter and makes stew Father eats it Brothers buries body in a box next to rose tree White bird sings and gathers gifts Gifts to family Drops millstone on mother and kills her Folktale Type 425 The Tale of Tulisa Indian Voice in well invisible servants at wedding Turns out to be very attractive and wealthy Wont reveal his name when he does he turns into a snake Tulisa saves squirrel talks to them Cupid and Psyche Roman Physche only sees husband at night Sisters tell her he is a snake Physche finds out what he really looks like while trying to kill him Sees Cupid Has to complete tasks to get husband back Cupid saves her Review Terms flood hero survivor of flood Atrahasis flood hero Ea helps him King of Shuruppak builds boat to survive Igigi group of gods who have to do all the work Elil leads them Spit in mix for humans Ellil leader of gods brings flood about to kill humans in both myths furious when humans survive Ea comes up with plan for humans to do labor in Atrahasis Tells Atrahais and Utnapishtim how to survive flood Gives them directions for a coracle boat and tells them behind Elil s back increases immortality when Ea becomes angry Ilawela killed in order to make humans from his body Igigi spit in the mixture Nintu molds humans mother of all humans Shuruppak place where Atrahasis and Utnapishtum are king of Coracle Ea instructs Utnapishtim and Atrahasis to build this to survive flood Utnapishtim king of Shurrupak made immortal Ea tells him how to survive Ellil makes him immortal imhullu wind used to destroy world in Utnapishtim Ishtar mourns Mt Nimush Utnapishtim lands here and releases a dove and swallow which are unsuccessful raven is successful makes sacrifice and gods gather Noah only blameless man given directions to build a boat by god Yahweh brings on flood in Genesis picks Noah to survive displeased with how humans are acting Mt Ar arat where Noah s boat lands He releases a raven which is unsuccessful and a dove which is successful Makes sacrifice to Yahweh Trickster shape shifters amoral tricky transform self and world around them culture hero liminal figures liminal figure partakes in god human or animal category Akan culture of people of which the Anansi story comes from Anansi man spider Aetieological stories of how things came to be Kweku Anansi Anansi s human name means born on a wednesday Onyame Nyame sky god Anansi finds out secret name in order to marry his daughter Nyame pays for stories but Anansi tricks him Anansesem stories folktales Okyeami Anansi as symbol of linguist Baduasemanpensa secret name in order to win Nyame s daughter Anansi reveals this name to the lizard Owoh the snake Anansi frames him for Yam theft Anansi kills him he turns over when he is killed Pandora Theogony created by Zeus as punishment for men pretty outside and evil inside made from clay dressed by Athena Works and Days Zeus creates Pandora as punishment Hephaestus molds earth Athena gives clothes Aphrodite teaches her how to be charming Hermes gives trickiness and evil she is given in Epimetheus has a jar ends Golden race Prometheus Theogony tricks Zeus and splits up parts of ox so humans get to keep good parts Zeus takes away fire Prometheus steals fire Zeus sends Pandora binds Prometheus and eagle eats his liver Herecles rescues Prometheus Epimetheus name means misguided or afterthought must marry Pandora Zeus tricked by Prometheus punishes humans each time he is tricked punishes Epimetheus and Prometheus creates Pandora Hephaistos molds Pandora out of clay Athena dresses and adorns Pandora Works and Days Hesiod s other work which focuses on Pandora and the Golden Age Myth of Races gods made different generations of humans how humans are created Aeschylus author of Prometheus Bound Prometheus Bound Prometheus is bound in chains Zeus is portrayed as a tyrant succession myth about Zeus being overthrown Moirai goddesses who control destinies of humans and gods more powerful than other gods1 Clotho begins thread 2 Lachesis controls how long life is 3 Aropos controls death Io priestess of Hera exiled by Hera because she does not want Zeus to have sex with her Hera turns her into a cow and is guarded by Argos gadfly ghosts of Argos haunt Io and bite her and chase her so that Zeus wont have sex with her Prometheus reveals Zeus fate to Io Raven trickster Tlingit culture of the Raven story Native American people Nass River evidence of the Tlingit people s first settlements Kit ka ositiyi qa Raven is son of this man creator of world World lacks common goods and Raven distributes them Petrel owns all water Raven spends night with Petrel and when he goes to sleep Raven tricks him and carries water in his beak Bear one of the Tlingit s food sources explains how Raven killed him Coyote trickster steals fire for humas by cheating at dice Klamath culture which Klamath comes from Thunder tricked by Coyote gets very angry and tries to kill Coyote but he takes off his skin lightnight breaks into fire for everyone Heroes heroines half god half human mortal role model main character gods take an interest in worshipped in hero cult goes on a quest and leaves everyday world overcomes challenge gets reward shares reward with community Joseph Cambell definition Nymphs goddesses closer to humans and landscape liminal hero cult worship of humans takes place around grave site of human give sacrifices Menelaus price of Sparta marries Helen becomes King Alexander takes his wife Menelaus starts Trojan war becomes immortal because gods medaled in his life become a hero heroine Helen Menelaus wife Aphrodite promises her to Paris which starts Trojan war Helen
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