Ancient Mythology East and West Final EPIC OF GILGAMESH STORY LINE The two creation myths Son of Ninsun King Lugalbanda Gilgamesh formed by Belit ili herself People of Uruk pray to Anu for relief of Gilgamesh s torments Enkidu is created by Belit ili to match Gilgamesh Shamhat sleeps with Enkidu Enkidu becomes civilized and goes to Uruk to try and stop Gilgamesh Enkidu Gilgamesh become friends Quest to kill Humbaba gets help from Shamash 4 winds Ishtar wants Gilgamesh Gilgamesh rejects her Ishtar unleashes Bull of Heaven on Uruk Gilgamesh kills bull with help from Enkidu One of them must die because they have overstepped their mortal bounds Enkidu is killed by illness Gilgamesh becomes sad about death seeks immortality Gilgamesh seeks Utnapishtim the only man who is immortal Gilgamesh comes to Mashu where the sun Shamash rises and its guarded by Scorpion men Scorpion men and wife tell Gilgamesh its impossible to enter Mashu but he does hero journey to underworld Great Lyre is a cemetery at Sumerian city of Ur Told by Siduri an alewife to find Urshanabi ferrymen Travels to Utnapishtim across sea at very edge of earth underworld like place Asks Utnapishtim about Immortality Utnapistim tells the Flood Story review Ancient Mythology East and West Final Says to Gilgamesh that a flood will never happen again so your only chance to become immortal is if you can stay awake for 6 days 7 nights Gilgamesh fails to stay awake for 6 days 7 nights Realizes he will be die eventually gives up quest for immortality Utnapishtim s wife suggests to look for magical plant that restores youth finds plant in Apsu a snake steals it Gilgamesh returns to Uruk and realizes that his cultural achievements Uruk s walls that he built equals immortality his legacy will remain Visit www Quizlet com to access all terms for the stories Login alanamaj Password clt3378 TALE OF BULUQIYA STORY LINE Ancient Mythology East and West Final Buluqiya s Father tells his son to check inventory of possessions in the palace Father is on his death bed Buluqiya discovers a gold box Inside the gold box is a greek parchment The parchment tells of a a ring that originally belongs to adam b the ring gives power to all living beings c location isle of seven seas in Sulaiman tomb can t sail there d magical plant sap enables you to walk across water e only queen Yamlika can give you plant f once you have ring you can drink from fountain of life grants immortality Sage Affan becomes guide a for Buluqiya to see Queen Yamlika Yamlika tells Buluqiya to stop this quest instead take this plant it grants eternal youth but they do not Buluqiya and Affan cross seven seas Find a fruit tree Buluqiya wants the fruit they were starving I think A giant is guarding the tree the tree tree of knowledge They give up on tree and find the tomb of Sulaiman instead a inside they find the ring b Affan wants the ring he needs a protective spell to touch it c Buluqiya says spell but he says it backwards d Affan is turned to dust when he touches ring due to the reversed spell Story ends with Buluqiya at a loss at what to do Ancient Mythology East and West Final BEOWULF STORY LINE Heorot being plagued by monster Grendel heard noise of feasting and seizes people For past 12 years Beowulf sails to Heorot to meet with Hrothgar king of the Danes To honor his arrival they have a feast and Grendel comes to kill a man Beowulf grabs him and mortally wounds him by taking off his shoulder Next night feast to celebrate Grendel defeat Grendel mother comes to feast and kills a Dane and takes Grendels shoulder Beowulf and men go to Grendel s mother lair Beowulf dives into pool and is seized by Grendel s mother and is take to lair Grendel s mother claws dagger him but his armor repels it and his sword Hrunting doesn t work on her Beowulf finds sword in lair and beheads Grendel s mother Beowulf beheads Grendel corpse Beowulf return to Heorot with Grendels head and have a feast at Heorot to celebrate Beowulf and Geats return home and is given gifts and land from Hygelac Later Beowulf succeeds Hygelac and rules as king for 50 years A slave falls into mound full of treasure and wakens dragon that at night attacks Geats Beowulf 11 men and slave go to dragon mound to protect Beowulf prepares to fight dragon alone in armor Dragon attacks Beowulf and his sword falls bounces off dragon Men flee Wiglaf Beowulf s relative helps him Dragon attacks second time and sword breaks Ancient Mythology East and West Final Dragon attacks third time and sinks venomous fangs into Beowulf Wiglaf puts sword in dragons belly Beowulf puts a knife in dragon s side and kills dragon Mound for Beowulf with treasure puts remains in mound EGYPTIAN CREATION Re sun overall most important god Ancient Mythology East and West Final Two main gods with morning sun Horakhty falcon and Khepri the scarab beetle that rolls dung sun across the sky Midday Re Evening sun Atum ram Sun travels by boat during the day and goes to underworld river at night Humans plot rebellion against dying so Re sends Eye to destroy them Eye of Re merges into Hathor female sexuality motherhood mother of Horus Hathor merges into goddess Sekhmet lion goddess plague healing war Hathor takes lots of beer and dies it red and Sekhmet thinks its blood so she gets drunk and forgets to kill humans Reverse flood myth humans saved In beginning Nu Nun god waters of chaos Atum god creative force associated with sun patron god of Heliopolis Atum produces Shu sneezing masturbating and Tefnut spitting Shu god of air Tefnut goddess of moisture Shu Tefnut Geb earth god and Nut sky goddess Geb Nut bro Osiris and Seth sis Isis and Nephthys Ptah craftsman god who creates world thru heart mind and tongue speech Ptah patron god of Memphis EGYPTIAN AFTERLIFE Plutarch s On Isis and Osiris Osiris marries Isis and becomes king of Egypt Ancient Mythology East and West Final Seth tricks Osiris to go into a chest and then he sends it out to sea Isis his wife searches for Osiris and finds the chest She takes the chest and accidentally sets it down so Seth finds it and cuts up Osiris Once Osiris body is cut up it s scattered in the Nile Isis finds all body parts but does body not find phallus Isis magically gets Osiris alive to have a son Horus Osiris king of underworld Horus battles defeats Seth when older Horus king of Egypt Duat Egyptian underworld Egyptians love life so much that they want afterlife to be as close to life as possible To have a good afterlife you need a
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