CLT3378 Final Exam Study Guide Key Terms Buluqiya Tale of Buluqiya one of 300 stories in The Thousand and One Nights The Thousand and One Nights Arabic collection of stories Arabian Nights another name for The Thousand and One Nights Arabic language that Tale of Buluqiya is written in Islam Armies of Islam brought down Sassanid Empire Sassanid Sassanian The Thousand and One Nights is a frame story of the Sassanians It took place in the Sassanid empire from 224 651 CE frame narrative set in time of Sassanians pre Islamic times begins and ends TaON Shahriar the Sultan who gets cheated on by his wife so he marries and kills a virgin then repeats the process several times Sultan a muslim ruler vizier adviser Scheherazade vizier s daughter who volunteers to marry Shahriar so she can stop the murders does this by beginning to tell him a story then leaves him hanging doesn t kill her because he wants to listen to the end of the story does this for 1001 nights Shahrazad another name for Scheherazade Tale of Buluqiya influenced by Epic of Gilgamesh 1000 years before about dying king telling his son to check his possessions when he dies Buluqiya gets a gold box with a parchment inside Sulaiman prophet the parchment Bulugiya finds in a gold box talks about Says the ring on Sulaiman s finger belonged to Adam because the Angel Gabriel gave it to him Isle of First Sea it is the first of seven seas that has gemstones Isle of Seven Seas Isle of Seventh Sea It is the seventh sea that you need to cross in order to get to the tomb ring you need plant sap to walk across sea Yamlika the underground queen the plant sap that you rub on your feet which allows you to walk across water only grows in her kingdom gives plant to Buluqiya but says not to try and get the ring offers second plant eternal life but Buluqiya rejects it she narrates to Hasib Affan sage who is the guide to Queen Yamilka s underground realm tells Buluqiya to bless him with a protection spell but Buluqiya says the spell backwards and instead turns him to dust Hasib Yamilka tells embedded narrative to him imbedded embedded narrative a story within a story Allah Arabic god who moved tree of knowledge when Adam and Eve ate from it Background Reading 8 Mohammed the founder and prophet of Islam Islam the religion of the Muslims a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah Antoine Galland translated the Thousand and One Nights in French which first brought the work to the attention of the West Folktale Heroines Aarne Thompson classification system where to look up tale types folktale motifs single element idea in a story Motif Index of Folk Literature where to look up motifs folktale types type of story e g The Dragon Slayer Dragon kidnaps girl her saves the day etc AT Tale Type 720 my mother she killed me my father he ate me The Juniper Tree first wife dies when son is born second wife has daughter beheads stepson closes trunk on him while he s reaching for an apple makes black pudding with his body Marlinchen puts her brother s bones under juniper tree mist fire emerge from tree and a bird emerges along with it sings song of sons death audience gives gifts gold chain red shoes millstone after death of step mother son reappears from smoke flames comes back to life Marlinchen daughter of second wife in The Juniper Tree puts brothers bones under Juniper Tree The Crow s Nest mother has daughter and son kills son cooks his flesh into stewed cabbage and feeds it to husband daughter puts brothers bones in tree bones become a crow boy hybrid audience gives gifts cloak crutch stick millstone son doesn t come back to life The Rose Tree first wife has daughter second wife has son second wife beheads daughter gets axe to cut her hair and then cuts her head off stewed her heart and liver and feeds it to her husband son buries sister s bones under rose tree white bird appears on tree audience gives gifts red shoes gold watch chain millstone AT Folktale Type 425 the search for the lost husband Beauty and the Beast tale type Cupid and Psyche Psyche angers Venus because people worship her instead of Venus because she is a beautiful human woman Venus sends son Cupid to punish Psyche arrows of cupid touch both Psyche and Cupid so Psyche can fall in love with someone beneath her so she becomes betrothed to a monster which is cupid called monster because he is the god of sexual desire by Delphic oracle Psyche is tricked by sister into causing cupid to show his true form by taking a candle and going to see what he looks like he leaves has to do tasks to please Venus to get him back must sort through seeds but gets helped by ants get wool from sheep and helped by river god about to commit suicide but is talked out of it by a voice from a tower wins over Venus and is reunited with Cupid then becomes deified becomes goddess Cupid son of Venus hits Psyche with arrow and becomes betrothed Psyche means soul angers Venus becomes betrothed to Cupid Venus Mother of cupid jealous of Psyche so she sends son to punish her Lucius Apuleius roman author who wrote the original story of cupid and Psyche The Singing Soaring Lark Father loves youngest daughter the most and wants to bring youngest daughter a lark says lion will spare father if he marries the first thing he sees Tale of Tulisa Tulisa is promised in marriage to a voice in a well voice turns out tobe a monster who is an enchanted prince Tulisa is tricked by male demon Sarkasukis in disguise as an old woman into causing her husband to show his true and monstrous form since she only sees him as night becomes snake Basnak Dau leaves and she must search for him now Tulisa is helped by squirrels and bees to collect an egg from Huma bird in order to please Basnak Dau s mother since he said his name he lost his kingship so his mom is now the queen of snakes when egg hatched the bird pecks our the eyes of the snake around her mother in laws neck so she loses her power and is defeated Tulisa is reunited with Basnak Dau and he becomes the king of snakes again after his mother loses her power Tulisa becomes queen India country where Tale of Tulisa is from Tulisa daughter of a wood cutter nur singh and his wife voice at the well asks to marry her marries without ever seeing her husband Nur Singh father of Tulisa Basnak Dau snake form that Tulisa s prince becomes Sarkasukis demon henchman of Basnak Dau s mother Raven and Coyote Native American culture in which the Raven and Coyote myths
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