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II List of Terms As a study aid for the exam make sure you can identify each of the following terms Who is each god or other figure To what culture does the god figure term belong In what literary work does the god figure term appear What does the god figure do in that literary work For a term concept what does the term concept mean How does the term concept relate to the myths cultures and literary works that we have studied 1 The Thousand and One Nights Buluqiya Culture Arabic Work read Tale of Buluqiya one of the stories in The Thousand and One Nights Type of work prose Date of work c 1200 1300 CE Language of work Arabic SUMMARY of The Thousand and One Nights Set in the time of Sassanians We saw this in Beowulf Christian author but set in Pre Christian times Same in The Thousand and One Nights pre Islamic times of Sassinic Empire Frame Narrative Story something that begins and ends a work In frame narrative the story starts out with Shahriar the Sultan Eastern King He starts out a good king but his wife Sultaness cheats on him Shariar gets her put to death and then marries virgin and sleep with her and the kills her This becomes a problem with him killing He has a vizier or advisor right hand man This vizier has a daughter named Scheherazade She Volunteers to marry Shahriar and aims to stop the murders She marries the sultan and tells him a story she doesn t quite finish the story The sultan without hearing the end of the story is interested and doesn t kill her She finished and goes into another story this goes on for 1001 nights IMMBEDDED NARRATIVE here story within a story After 1001 nights the Sultan is humanized and pardons Scheherazade the viziers daughter and story teller SUMMARY of Tale of Buluqiya Draws upon Epic of Gilgamesh Much shorter than Gilgamesh and more compressed A lot of characters do double duty Buluqiya Bilgames Sumerian Buluqiya s father a king is dying He tells Buluqiya when I die check royal pessesions Buluqiya becomes king and comes across a gold box or parchment This gold box or parchment says different things VV a There is a ring on prophet Sulaimans finger in his tomb This ring belonged to Adam b Gabriel took ring from Adam when he was expelled from the Garden of Eden c Ring has great power essentially become a god d Ring is on Sulaimans finger in Isle of seven seas Cant sail there you can only walk across water and can only do that by plant sap e Plant only grows in the under ground of Queen Yamlika g drink Fountain of Life beauty youth wisdom immortality Sage Affan serves as a guide to Buluqiya across the seas on his search for immortality Yamlika gives Buluqiya a plant and says don t try and get the ring and offers him a second plant that can provide eternal youth Buluqiya and Sage Affan continue on their journey and come across Isle of the First Sea which is full of gemstones They then come to the Isle of the Seventh Sea which has a fruit tree guarded by a giant This tree is the TREE OF KNOWLEDGE Since the work is Islamic Allah is Adam here They make it to the tomb of Sulaiman and Affan tells Buluqiya he has to say a magical spell to keep him from harm Buluqiya says it backwards and Affan turns to dust and dies It is sacrilegious in that its 1 tomb robbing 2 going to turn into gods or trying too Buluqiya is at a loss and does not achieve immortality similar to Gilgamesh Buluqiya similar to Epic of Gilgamesh IMPORTANT WILL 100 BE QUESTIONS ASKED ABOUT THIS AND MOST LIKELY AN ESSAY OF SOME SORT Search for immortality cross water gilgamesh crosses sea ocean surrounds earth buluqiya crosses 7 seas to get to island Embedded narrative Underworld type places 2 Heros second self dies Magic Plant Tree guarding Giant Buluqiya first island has gemstones like when Gilgamesh comes out of mashu Yamlika utnapishtim both live underworld type place tell about plant Yamlika also similar to siduri help them get across the water Both royalty sons of kings Enkidu serves as guide and Afan serves as guide The Thousand and One Nights Tale of Buluqiya Terms TERMS Tale of Buluqiya One of 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 Language of work Islam Brought down the Sassanid Empire Story is Arabic but also Islamic Sassanid Sassanian A very big near eastern empire 224 651 CE Built empire under Cyrus the Great Story is set in time of Sassanians Brought down by Islamic armies frame narrative Something that begins and ends a work Tale of Buluqiya Shahriar Shahriar Hasib the sultan in the story who is the Sassanid king Catches his wife committing adultery and then kills her He despises women after this and goes on a spree of marrying women taking their virginity and then killing them Sultan King Holder of Power Shahriar Vizier Advisor Right hand man of sultan Shahriar has a daughter who volunteers to marry Shahriar and stop the murders Scheherazade Daughter of the Vizier she Volunteers to marry Shahriar and aims to stop the murders She marries the sultan and tells him a story she never quite finishes the story The sultan without hearing the end of the story is interested and doesn t kill her She finishes her story and immediately goes into another story this goes on for 1001 nights IMMBEDDED NARRATIVE story within a story Shahrazad Same person as Scheherazade Tale of Buluqiya Similar to Epic of Gilgamesh Buluqiya Bilgames Sumerian One of the stories told by Shahrazad to entertain the sultan Shahriar in the tale the thousand and one nights Buluqiya A prince who receives a gold box or parchment telling him the location of a magic ring that can give god like powers and various other things including immortality READ SUMMARY Goes on a quest with sage Affan fails to achieve his goal of immortality like Gilgamesh Sulaiman A prophet this magical ring is on his dead body finger in his tomb Isle of First Sea Full of gemstones Buluqiya eats too much sugar fruit here his favorite fruit Isle of Seven Seas Isle of Seventh Sea Has a fruit tree a giant guards Tree Referenced to be TREE OF KNOWLEDGE with Allah acting as Adam because the work is Islamic Yamlika Is a narrator to Hasib Queen of Underground Need plant sap to walk across water and the plant only grows in the under ground of Queen Yamlika Imbedded Narrative Story within a story represented in The Tale of Buluqiya when Queen Yamlika is narrator to Hasib Queen Yamlika narrating the story to


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