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CLT3378 02 Ancient Mythology East and West Fall 2015 Study Guide for Final Exam I Review Questions The following questions are meant to aid you in thinking about the material for the exam 1 Distinguish between the events of the Tale of Buluqiya which we did read and the events of the frame narrative of the Thousand and One Nights which we did NOT read the frame narrative features Shahriar and Scheherazade 2 How are the three folktales that represent AT Tale Type 720 The Juniper Tree The Crow s Nest and The Rose Tree both similar to and different from one another 3 How are the three folktales that represent AT Folktale Type 425 Cupid and Psyche The Singing Soaring Lark and the Tale of Tulisa both similar to and different from one another 4 Compare and contrast the tricksters Raven Coyote and Anansi How do these tricksters trick people gods Are these tricksters also culture heroes Are these tricksters connected with creation If so how do they create things and what do they create Do they establish the way things are in this world Do they re distribute things Are they shape shifters Are their bodies malleable Do they straddle the line between gods humans and animals Are they amoral Are they ever punished for their actions 5 Compare the beginning of creation in Norse and Egyptian accounts What is the first element of the cosmos water or something else in these accounts What is its significance What are the different processes that are used to bring about the creation of the world Is there a god or gods in charge of initiating creation How are these accounts similar in terms of their descriptions of the processes of creation How are they different 6 Compare and contrast myths about and ideas about the afterlife in Norse and Egyptian accounts What happens to a person in these cultures once that person dies To where does the soul of the deceased go Is there more than one possible place to which a soul may go What does the soul need to do if anything to reach its destination in the afterlife Where are the afterlife realms in these cultures Are they true underworlds or not What are the afterlife realms like pleasant unpleasant cold hot etc What is life like for the soul in these afterlife realms What sort of gods or other beings are located in these afterlife realms Is there a king and or queen of the afterlife realm 7 What are the similarities and differences between the following pairs of figures Yamlika and Siduri Yamlika and Utnapisthim Humbaba and the giant on the Isle of the Seven Seas Odin and Hel Midgard Serpent and Okeanos Odin and Osiris Hel and Isis 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 Buluqiya Tale of Buluqiya One of the 300 stories in the The Thousand and One Nights The Thousand and One Nights Arabic collection of stories c 1200 1300 CE Arabian Nights this title caught on in English and that is what most English speakers today call the Thousand and One Nights Arabic Islam adherents conquered Arabia the Near East and North Africa Sassanid Sassanian Empire 224 651 CE defeated by Islamic armies in 651 was not as extensive nor as powerful as the earlier Persian Empire the Sassanids still controlled the heart of the empire that their Persian forebears had established frame narrative Shahriar The sultan Vizier Sultan Decides he is going to marry a virgin sleep with her on wedding night then kill her the next day keeps doing this to women at the end has been transformed to a human by power of Shahrazad stories pardons Shahrazad and stops the killings Scheherazade Vizier s daughter volunteers to marry the sultan aims to put an end to the murders o Tells only part of a story to Sultan he wants to hear the rest so doesn t kill her and this goes on for 1 001 nights because she keeps telling parts of stories Shahrazad Same as Scheherazade Sulaiman prophet magic ring on his finger in his tomb Isle of First Sea landscape covered with gemstones Isle of Seven Seas Isle of Seventh Sea The ring is in the tomb which is on the Isle of the Seven Seas cannot sail there must walk across water to get there must find magic plant that has sap to rub on the soles of your feet to walk across water Yamlika Plant only grows in underground realm of Queen Yamlika narrator to Hasib imbedded narrative gives plant tells them do not take the ring and tries to offer them a second plant that provides eternal youth Affan Sage Affan as guide to Buluqiya goes to get the ring off the corpse dies because Buluqiya says spell backwards Hasib imbedded embedded narrative Scheherazade telling sultan stories every night Allah moved fruit tree to this island Tree of Knowledge from Garden of Eden Background Reading 8 Buluqiya Mohammed the founder and prophet of Islam began spreading the new monotheistic religion of Islam in Arabia during his lifetime caliphs literally successors of Mohammed Antoine Galland French translation of the Thousand and One Nights by Antoine Galland first brought the work to the attention of the West Folktale Heroines Aarne Thompson 2 different guys who created a tale type index that many folktales fit into folktale motifs single element idea in a story i e magic ring Motif Index of Folk Literature By Stith Thompson Index of different folktake motifs folktale types type of story i e the Dragon Slayer AT Tale Type 720 My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me The Juniper Tree The Crow s Nest The Rose Tree In each of these stories the dead child comes back as a bird and drops a millstone to crush the mother figure The child is always made into a food particular to that culture The Juniper Tree German folktale by the Brothers Grimm Summary A man and a woman have a son After the mother dies the father remarries The father and stepmother have a daughter named Marlinchen the story s heroine The evil stepmother kills the son and puts him in black pudding which she feeds to the father Marlinchen her brother s bones and remains and ties them into a handkerchief which she buries under a juniper tree A bird comes out of the tree and flies around town singing a song As a reward for singing the song to them different shop


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