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CLT3378 FINAL STUDY GUIDE Gilgamesh Unug The original name or Uruk the Akkadians renamed Unug to Uruk Gilgamesh built it s walls with his own hands Akkadian Unug Akkadian Uruk Sumerian Utu is an Akkadian Shamash Uruk city where Gilgamesh is king Enkidu goes here to find Gilgamesh and wrestle him walls were built obtaining cultural achievement of immortality Bilgames Akkadian name for Gilgamesh king of Uruk his original name Ninsun goddess who is mother of Gilgamesh Gets help from Shamash sun god Lugalbanda King father of Gilgamesh Husband of goddess Ninsun Epic of Gilgamesh A Babylonian epic that is written on 12 tablets It is a flood myth involving Utnapishtim in part of tablet 11 Belit ili Also known as Mami Aruru or Nintu Belit ili forms Gilgamesh s body Associated with stature and beauty Also created Enkidu out of a lump of clay and wilderness Gilgamesh s equal or second self who was hairy and wild Enkidu Gilgamesh s hairy uncivilized second self made by Aruru out of clay Was tricked into sleeping with a prostitute and being rejected by animals wrestles with Gilgamesh and becomes friends They fight Humbaba the Bull of Heaven and is eventually chosen to die by Ellil Anu and Shamash second self Enkidu is Gilgamesh s second self wild and uncivilized lives with animals falls into hunter s trap Shamhat the prostitute who awaits enkidu at watering trap sleep together for 6 days and 7 nights hunters trap Enkidu falls ill curses shamhat but shamash makes him remove curse Ishtar Goddess of sexual desire lusts for Gilgamesh Gilgamesh rejects her cause it is unlucky she complains to father Anu and sends Bull of Heaven to kill him Humbaba monstrous giant who protects the Pine Forest taunts Gilgamesh and is killed by Gil and Enkidu even when Humbaba begs for mercy Gilgamesh is cursed Ellil The lord of the wind who lived in the Pine Forest Ellil Anu and Shamash participate in the assembly of gods and decide Enkidu must die Shamash sun god from Sumerian Utu Akkadian Shamash Gilgamesh prays to him and Shamash gives him 4 winds to fight Humbaba one of gods who decides enkidu should die goes to underworld at night rises by mashu and sets behind another mountain divine council myth where a group of Gods meet and discuss the fate of a human or humans Bull of Heaven The bull of heaven is sent by Ishtar to kill Gilgamesh Enkidu grabs the bull by the tail and Gilgamesh kills the bull with a sword Utnapishtim Gilgamesh wants to find him at Mouth of Rivers edges of earth in underworld type place to become immortal tells Gilgamesh of the flood and a plant that will restore his youth gives Gilgamesh sleep test that he fails so he can t be immortal snake steals plant Scorpion man he and wife guard gates of Mashu He tells wife that the person who dares come here must be a god tells Gilgamesh that Utnapishtim lives on other side of mountain Mashu Gilgamesh comes to mountains at edge of earth Mashu translates twin peaks known to be impossible to enter but Gilgamesh passes thru the darkness and finds landscape with gemstones Ur Sumerian city that has the cemetery where Great Lyre is found Great Lyre Sumerian art where a scorpion man is found on the bottom panel It was found in a cemetery at Sumerian city in Ur in 2600 BCE in a tomb Siduri an alewife of beer seller who runs tavern Says to Gilgamesh that he needs to cross the sea to get to Utnapishtim Urshanabi ferryman who takes Gilgamesh across the sea Siduri tells Gilgamesh to find him in order to get to Utnapishtim Apsu Looked out for Gilgamesh Ring composition Uruks walls to Uruk s walls End of Tablet 11 Gilgamesh A sumerian king in 2800 2500 BCE 2 3 divine and 1 3 human Son of goddess Ninsun and king Lugalbanda Background Reading 6 Gilgamesh Sumerian poems about Bilgames Akkadian Gilgamesh Old Babylonian fragments of the Epic of Gilgamesh written by Akkadian termed this Standard Version a slightly different version of the Epic of Gilgamesh 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 One of the Thousand and One Night Tales a dying king tells his son Buluqiya to carefully check the palace s possessions when he dies Buluqiya finds a golden box with a Greek note in it which tells of a ring owned by Adam but was taken by the Angel Gabriel and given to Sulaiman the Wise the ring gives you power over all living things the ring is on the isle of the Seven Seas but you cant walk there you have to walk across the water there is a plant in the underground realm of Queen Yamlika whose sap lets you walk across the water once you have the ring you can drink from the Fountain of Youth Affan and Buluqiya get to the Isle of Seven Seas and they come to a fruit tree which is actually the Tree of Knowledge from the Garden of Eden a giant is guarding the tree and wont let them eat they come to the Tomb of Sulaiman and Affan tells Buluqiya that when he goes for the ring Buluqiya needs to recite a spell to protect him Buluqiya is nervous and says it wrong so Affan burns to death Buluqiya doesn t know what to do without Affan or the ring The Thousand and One Nights Varied collection of folktales legends and myths written in Arabic Sumerian Islamic Frame story the daughter of the man who is supposed to supply the Persian King with a wife tells the King a story for 1 001 nights because she never finishes until the next day when she starts another one Arabian Nights AKA the Thousand and One Nights Arabic collection of stories from 1200 1300 CE Arabic A language that is the official language of several countries of North Africa and the Middle East as well as the religion of Islam Islam the gold box had parchment written in Greek showing how old it was it is old because it is pre islamic Sassanian Empire existed before Islamic period Sassanid Sassanian an empire that exists from 224 651 CE Claimed founding of Persian Empire and ruled most of Near East when Mohammed was born frame narrative the time period of the Sassanian Empire Before islamic period Shahriar The sultan ruler wife committed adultery so he marries a virgin sleeps with her and kIlls her every day marries Shahrazad and stops Sultan Shariar was sultan Ruler After 1001 nights sultan was humanized and pardons Scheherazade and her stories Vizier brings virgins to the king to marry daughter is Scheherazade Scheherazade the vizier s daughter was a woman named Scheherazade AKA


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