CLT 3378 Ancient Mythology East and West Spring 2015 Lecture Outline 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 I Tale of Buluqiya one of c 300 stories in The Thousand and One Nights II The Thousand and One Nights Arabian Nights a Arabic collection of stories b c 1200 1300 CE III Sassanid Empire 224 651 CE IV 632 CE death of Mohammed ends when armies of islam defeated Sassanid army The Thousand and One Nights TaON I frame narrative a set in time of Sassanians b begins ends TaON b generates all stories in TaON c cf Gylfaginning II in frame narrative in beginning of TAON Shahriar the Sultan king Sultan starts out good a but then the Sultaness commits adultery b Sultaness killed c sultans starts practice of marring virgin sleeping with her then kills her next day III vizier s sultans right hand man daughter Scheherazade or Shahrazad a volunteers to marry sultan b aims to stop murders heroin marries begins to tell sultan story c tells only part of a story doesn t kill daughter because sultan wants to hear rest of story for 1001 nights d imbedded narrative story within story within story e cf Utnapishtim and flood myth IV after 1001 nights a Sultan humanized doesn t want to kill wife anymore b pardons Scheherazade daughter wins with power of stories c pardoned at end of frame narrative and of TaON Tale of Buluqiya and Epic of Gilgamesh I Tale of Buluqiya a draws upon Epic of Gilgamesh b survived by oral transmission sailors traders II Buluqiya Bilgames Sumerian III compresses events characters from Epic of Gilgamesh much shorter some characters do double duty I dying king to son Buluqiya Bulukiya son check possessions because im dying Tale of Buluqiya II Buluqiya checks gold box a parchment is in Greek b shows its age pre Islamic III parchment tells of a ring prophet Sulaiman b Adam Eden where expelled from garden angel Gabriel c ring gives power over all living beings basically gives you god like power power living beings across though wisdom immortality d ring is located on Isle of Seven Seas have to cross all seven seas you cant sail e get magic plant sap rub it on your feet and walk across water f plant belongs to Queen Yamlika underground g once you get ring you can drink Fountain of Life it gives you beauty youth IV sage Affan as guide will serve as buliqiya guide V Yamlika owner of magic plant as narrator to Hasib has no part in story really imbedded narrative she has been telling this story all along VI Yamlika a gives plant to buluqiya and affan b Don t try to get ring c instead offers second plant eternal youth but they turn it down VII Buluqiya and Affan travel over Seven Seas using plant sap a all islands have fantastic landscapes b Isle of First Sea gemstones other islands have sugared fruit etc VIII come to Isle of Seventh Sea IX fruit tree they are very hungry a giant guarding tree tells them not to eat from it b same tree that was eaten from by Adam and Allah moved it here bc of that X tomb of Sulaiman a Affan says okay im going to get the ring b Buluqiya say a magical spell Gets nervous and says it backwards c Affan turns to dust d sacrilegious bc they are trying to become gods and they are at a tomb they are robbing a tomb XI Buluqiya at a loss he lost his guide XII in second half of Tale of Buluqiya not in Reader a king of Jinn genies takes Buluqiya off island b onto a completely new adventure
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