CLT3378 Exam 1 Dr Branscome Section 4 http quizlet com 14533032 clt3378 flash cards Above is a link to a useful flash card study tool to help master these terms Hero Figures in whom the gods take a special interest An example of a hero in Greek culture is Hercules Trickster Tricksters are amoral shape shifting deceivers in mythology An example in the Babylonian Enuma Elish is the god Ea Polytheism The belief and acknowledgement of many gods Polytheistic cultures include the Greeks Canaanites and Babylonians Anthropomorphism Conception of gods in shape of human beings have features of humans and act like humans An example of this is Baal in the Canaanite Baal Cycle Binaturalism Conception of gods with as having two natures An example of binaturalism is the Babylonian Tiamat who is both a god and a thing sea Syncretism Adaptation of one culture s mythic beliefs by another culture An example is the Sumerian Inanna is the same as the Akkadian Ishtar Sphere of Influence Areas with which gods are associated have power For example the Greek god Zeus is the god of rain lightning kingship hospitality Primordial Waters Waters that exist at beginning of or even before creation In many creation myths Usually precede the sea and other large bodies of water Ancient Near East The area encompassing Mesopotamia Canaan Israel Anatolia and Egypt in which many myths were adopted such as the Babylonian Enuma Elish The Ancient Near East does not include Ancient Greece Mesopotamia Mesopotamia is known as the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers Cultures such as the Babylonians resided there and assembled the creation myth the Enuma Elish Sumerians The Sumerians were the first people to inhabit Mesopotamia They are considered the first human civilization and influenced the Akkadians Akkadians The Akkadians were a culture in Mesopotamia They overtook the Sumerians and adopted their spoken language Babylonians The Babylonians were a culture in Mesopotamia They created the myth the Enuma Elish and spoke a dialect of the Akkadian language Enuma Elish A Babylonian Myth was written about 2000 BCE This myth is a creation myth and succession myth that involves a great battle between the storm god Marduk and Tiamat the god of the seas Marduk The storm god in the Babylonian Enuma Elish He is the son of Ea and Damkina is crowned king of the gods and defeats Tiamat creating the heavens and the earth cuneiform Cuneiform is a type of script writing on tablets commonly used by ancient cultures such as the Babylonians The myth the Enuma Elish was written by the Babylonians in cuneiform Apsu Apsu is the binatural Babyloninan god of freshwater who is the husband of Tiamat Apsu is killed in the Enuma Elish by Ea Tiamat Tiamat the wife of Apsu is the binatural Babylonian god of the seas In the Enuma Elish Tiamat battles the storm god Marduk and loses Lahmu Lahmu is the son of the gods Tiamat and Apsu In the Babylonian Enuma Elish Lahmu is described as being formed from the mingling waters of Apsu and Tiamat Lahamu Lahamu is the daughter of the gods Apsu and Tiamat In the Babylonian Enuma Elish Lahmu is described as being formed from the mingling waters of Apsu and Tiamat Anshar Anshar is the Babylonian sky god In the Enuma Elish he is the son of Lahmu and Lahamu Kishar Kishar is the Babylonian earth goddess In the Enuma Elish she is the daughter of Lahmu and Lahmu Anu Anu is the son of both Anshar and Kishar In the Babylonian Enuma Elish Anu gives Marduk the four winds to defeat Tiamat Ea Enki Nuddimud Ea is the Babylonian trickster god who is the father of Marduk In the Enuma Elish Ea discovers Apsu s plot to wage war against the gods and Ea kills him Mummu Mummu is a vizier in the Babylonian Enuma Elish In this myth Mummu gives Apsu the go ahead to kill the gods and is captured by Ea once he discovers Mummu s plot Damkina In the Babylonian Enuma Elish Damkina is the mother of Marduk She is the consort of Ea Qingu Kingu Qingu is the leader of Tiamat s army of eleven monsters in the Babylonian Enuma Elish Tiamat also gives Qingu the Tablet of Destinies Tablet of Destinies The Tablet of Destinies is given to Qingu in the Babylonian Enuma Elish Marduk kills Tiamat and her army and reclaims the Tablet of Destinies Semitic Semitic is a Mesopotamian culture that speaks a language similar to the language Hebrew The Akkadians spoke this language Amorites Amorites are a people that overthrew the Sumerians in Mesopotamia in 1900 BCE They spoke a dialect of Akkadian Babylon Babylon is the established capital city of Mesopotamia when controlled by the Amorites People that lived in the capital city of Babylon were known as Babylonians and they are attributed for adopting the Enuma Elish ziggurat Ziggurat is the temple in which gods were worshiped in Mesopotamia Each city state had its own patron god and that god was worshipped in a ziggurat Akitu Akitu is also known as the Babylonian New Year Festival This festival honored Marduk as the King of the gods in the city of Babylon Baal Cycle The Baal Cycle is a group of poems that surround the Canaanite god Baal These myths involve Baal s battle with Yam Baal s battle with Mot and the dilemma surrounding his palace Ugarit Ugarit was a coastal trading city which was prosperous around 1400 BCE This city is where thousands of clay tablets were found including the Canaanite Baal Cycle Canaan Canaan is the region in which Ugarit was located In this region the Baal Cycle was adopted Canaanite Canaanites are the people who lived in the region of Canaan They were one of the first cultures to use an alphabetic writing system instead of a cuneiform system El El is the father of the gods in Canaanite mythology In the Baal Cycle El agrees to give up Baal s hiding place to Yam so they could battle Baal Baal is the storm god mentioned in the Canaanite Baal Cycle He uses two clubs to defeat Yam and become known as Baal the Conqueror Hadad Hadad is another name for the storm god Baal In Caananite culture Hadad means thunderer Dagon Dagon is the father of Baal in the Baal Cycle He is the god of grain Zaphon Zaphon is the sacred mountain that belongs to Baal In the Canaanite Baal Cycle Baal s palace is constructed here Asherah In Canaanite mythology Asherah is the wife of the god El She is known as the Mother of the Gods Anat In Canaanite myhtology Anat is the sister of Baal She is the bloodthirsty goddess of war and hunting who slaughters Yams warriors in the Baal Cycle Kothar wa Hasis In
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