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CLT3378 01 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 The Thousand and One Nights Arabic collection of stories c 1200 1300 CE Arabian Nights another name for The Thousand and One nights Arabic the culture and language of the work Islam the religion of Muslims a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah Sassanid Sassanian people of islam frame narrative set in time of sassanians It begins and ends TaON and generates all stories in TaON An example of this is gylfaginning Shahriar sultan was a good sultan until his wife commits adultery and then after that he marries a virgin sleeps with her and then kills her tells him stories he becomes humanized Vizier a high official Scheherazade vizier s daughter volunteers to marry the evil sultan aims to stop him from murdering virgins begins to tell him a story but doesn t finish it finish it the next day and then tell another half of a story continues for 1001 nights eventually becomes humanize and stops killing thus Shahrazad succeeded Shahrazad another name for Scheherazade Tale of Buluqiya draws upon Epic of Gilgamesh Isle of First Sea gemstones Isle of Seven Seas Isle of Seventh Sea Yamlika is the narrator to Hasib and causes there to be an imbedded narrative Affan travels with Buluqiya over the seven seas imbedded embedded narrative a story within a story Allah Arabic word for god referring to the god in Abrahamic religions Background Reading 8 Buluqiya Mohammed founder of Islam and is considered a prophet by Muslims and Baha is Islam the religion of Muslims a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah Antoine Galland a French orientalist and archeologist most famous as the first European translor of one thousand and one nights which he called Les mille et une nuits Folktale Heroines Aarne Thompson classification system are two indexes used to classify folktales folktale motifs types of narrative patterns that were defined and classified by the folklorists Anti Aarne and Stith Thompson They are elements of a story not entire stories An example of a folktale motif might be a type of character that is found in stories from different cultures such as a wicked witch or an object such as a magic wand Motif Index of Folk Literature a classification of narrative elements in folktales ballads myths fables mediaeval romances folktale types types of narrative patterns that were defined and classified by the folklorists Anti Aarne and Stith Thompson Folktale types are stories that can be found in several different cultures such as The Juniper Tree or The Search for the Lost Husband AT Tale Type 720 My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me Stories The Juniper Tree German and The Crow s Nest Hungary and The Rose Tree England The Juniper Tree german fairytale collected by the Brothers Grimm It follows more common pattern of having the dead child be the boy Marlinchen daughter that puts her brothers bones under the juniper tree The Crow s Nest Hungarian story depicting the AT Folklore Type 720 My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me The Rose Tree English tale the reverses the sexes from the juniper tree AT Folktale Type 425 The Search for the Lost Husband Stories The Tale of Tulisa and The Singing Soaring Lark and Cupid and Psyche and Beauty and the beast Cupid and Psyche Cupid The Roman god of love He falls in love with a beautiful human princess Psyche They live together in a castle with invisible magical servants Psyche cannot see Cupid


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