Gilgamesh Unug Ancient Sumerian city and later babylonia later renamed Uruk by the Akkadians The Gilgamesh in the poem seems to have been based on the Sumerian king of this city Akkadian Semitic language spoken in mesopotamia Culture which Gilgamesh is from Uruk Ancient Sumerian city that was renamed Uruk by the Akkadians The Gilgamesh in the poem seems to have been based on the Sumerian king of this city Bilgames Gilgamesh is spelled this way in the Sumerian language He was king of Uruk and was an arrogant Ninsun In Sumerian mythology she is a goddess best known as the mother of the legendary hero Gilgamesh She mates with Lugalbanda Adopts Enkidu as her own Lugalbanda character found in Sumerian mythology and literature He is the father of Gilgamesh in the Epic of Gilgamesh Epic of Gilgamesh an epic poem from Mesopotamia about the king of Uruk is amongst the earliest surviving works of literature It is written in 12 cuneiform tablets Belitili Also known as Mami Aruru Nintu she forms the body of Gilgamesh Enkidu Is a central figure in the Ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh Is created by Araru and is Gilgamesh s second self He is hairy and raised by animals second self Is the equal of the hero and the one the hero hears advice from In the Epic of Gilgamesh Gilgamesh second self is Enkidu Shamhat The temple prostitute who tames Enkidu by seducing him away from his natural state Her power comes from her sexuality it is associated with civilization rather than nature She represents the sensuous refinements of culture Ishtar Babylonian goddess of fertility war love and sex She wants Gilgamesh but he rejects her and she begs her father to unleash to bull of heaven for revenge Humbaba Giant protector of the Pine Forest He taunts Gilgamesh and ends up dead Ellil The Akkadian god of earth and wind The son of Ansar and Kisar The father of the moon god Sin Shamash God of sun and justice in Gilgamesh epic Inspires Gilgamesh and Enkidu to go to forest and kill Humbaba Bull of Heaven A beast unleashed by Anu upon request of Ishtar who wreaks havoc on Uruk and is killed by GIlgamesh and Enkidu Utnapishtim Granted immortality by Enlil after surviving the great flood is sought out by Gilgamesh because he wants to know how to get immortality Offers Gilgamesh two tests to gain immortality which he fails He lives in the mouth of the rivers an underworld type place Scorpionman Guardian of the mountain called Mashu which Shamash the sun god travels through every night Mashu The twin peaks where the sun sets and which house the gate to the underworld Ur an ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River where the Great Lyre was found in a cemetery Great Lyre it was found in the cemetery at Sumerian city of Ur It was discovered in a tomb and it depicts the scorpion man Siduri Goddess of the vine who at first bars Gilgamesh from passage through the garden of the gods but then relents Urshanabi Boatman who takes Gilgamesh over the waters of death to Utnapishtim apsu The ancient Sumerian Akkadian freshwater reservoir Ring composition narrative technique characterized with starting and ending with the same idea The Epic of Gilgamesh has ring composition because it starts and ends talking about how Gilgamesh built the walls of Uruk with his bare hands Sumerian Gilgamesh was an actual historical figure and a Sumerian king Old Babylonian the scribes who copied the literary works of the older Sumerian civilization were active during this time period We owe the preservation of most of the Sumerian Bilgames poems to the work of these scribes Standard Version A slightly different version of The Epic of Gilgamesh It copies some of the Old Babylonian version leaves some things out that are a part of the Old Babylonian version and it also adds completely new things to the story Buluqiya Tale of Buluqiya Told by Scheherazade Story of a man crossing 7 seas in attempt to gain immortality Draws upon the Epic of Gilgamesh Is one of the 300 stories in The Thousand and One Nights The Thousand and One Nights Arabic collection of stories 1200 1300 CE Arabian Nights Another name for The Thousand and One Nights Arabic Culture in which The Tale of Buluqiya belongs Its the language in which the Thousand and One Nights was written Sassanid Sassanian The empire and people of the empire in which the frame story of the Tale of Buluqiya takes place They were descendants of the Persians It was the empire right before the Islamic world took the Near East Frame story narrative a story within a story such as Arabian Nights Shahriar the sultan was cheated on by 1st wife so he killed a string of brides his own until schenerazade shahrasad made him humanized Sulta Holder of power vizier he is the advisor of the sultan His daughter volunteers to marry the sultan Scheherazade In Arabian Nights Daughter of vizier Wife of the sultan of India who relates such interesting tales nightly that the sultan spares her life Shahrazad Is another name for Scheherazade She is a legendary Persian queen and the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights Sulaiman the dead king that is buried in the isle of 7 seas and has the special ring that buluquiya wants Isle of First Sea Has a landscape of gemstones Isle of Seven Seas Isle of Seventh Sea location of Sulaiman s ring The seven seas must be crossed to get to the ring Yamlika Queen of the underground and only she knows where to find the plant that Buluqiya needs to be able to walk across water She is the narrator of the tale Offers plant of eternal youth to talk Affan and Buluqiya out of getting the ring Affan Bulaqiya s wise guide to the ring Dies because Bulaqiya says a protective spell backwards Hasib Yamlika was narrator to him he was called an imbedded narrator imbedded narrative story within a story within a story Yamlika acts as a narrator to Hasib in The Tale of Bulaqiya Allah Muslim name for the one and only God Mohammed the founder and prophet of Islam was born in the Arabian city of Mecca in 570 CE Islam Monotheistic religion It was spread by Mohammed who is the founder of this Muslim religion Antoine Galland With his French translation of the Thousand and One Nights he brought the work to the attention of the West Beowulf Beowulf son of Ecgtheow nephew of Hygelac a Geat AngloSaxon Old English Germanic people closely related to the norse Vikings culture from which Beowulf is from Old English Language in which Beowulf is written language of Anglo Saxons Scandinavia The
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