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CLT 3378 Final Exam Study Guide Chinese Chinese Creation and Flood Chinese Very ancient civilization rich of traditions and stories Influenced by philosophical views like Confucianism and Taoism Yin Yang Shang or Yin Dynasty Earliest dynasty of Chinese period Primarily concentrated on the east of China lasted from 1766 until 1123 BCE Chou Dynasty Spread to the south of the Shang dynasty further subdivided into Western and Eastern Chou Lasted from 1123 221 BCE ended with a major breakdown of the States this period is known as the Warring States Era 403 221 BCE this is when Questions of Heaven is considered to have been created Han Dynasty Controlled more territory that past dynasties especially to the North Considered as to containing the golden age in Chinese history lasted from 206 BCE to 220 Questions of Heaven Part of the Ch u Tz u poses questions about creation A very important Chinese poem created during the Chou Dynasty Ch u Tz u Earliest comprehensive collection of Chinese myths means Songs of Ch u Contains the Questions of Heaven is a literary work composed of 186 poetic verses written by Ch u Yuan Ch u Yuan First named Chinese poet credited for writing the Ch u Tz u May have been an official in the Ch u court Ch u A state in the Chou Dynasty included the court of which Ch u Yuan was a part of Hun Tun First element in Chinese creation of the cosmos World was first thought to be an empty space but was later connected with a confusion or disorder with a bunch of things in it Like a primordial soup wonton hun tun soup with dumplings shapeless objects Yin The black part of the circle rises out of Hun Tun and is seen as a feminine creation force associated with the dark and heavy elements of the universe such as the earth which it transforms into Yang The other part of the circle the white male creation force Associated with light and lighter elements of the universe like the sky which it becomes humans created from the vapor of Yang P an Ku In this creation story from the southwest region of China maybe foreign the Hun Tun cosmic mess is pictured to be concealed in an egg where P an Ku was formed He s a primeval sort of giant god man who grows for 18 000 years at the same rate the sky and earth are growing at until they re all fully formed On his death his body parts become part of the universe Humans created from his mites Nu Kua The mother Creator or creator goddess in Chinese mythology Creates humans aristocrats from yellow earth until she runs out of it so she makes the rest out of mud commoners Fu Hsi A male creator force married to Nu Kua From the Han Dynasty where they are envisioned with a serpentine lower body Seen as a god and a culture hero since he invents multiple things such as fire writing hunting and music The left is Nu Kua right is Fu Hsi Kun Trickster god in Chinese mythology Gods send flood and Kun steals hsi jang from them gods kill him but he has hsi jang Means breathing earth in Chinese A kind of self renewing soil stolen from the gods which would somehow son before he dies stop dam the flood Yu A culture hero in Chinese mythology born out of Kun s belly Uses the hsi jang to stop the flood Later goes around the world and repairs anything damaged which takes a heavy toll on his body Yu walk Because of his journey and all the work Yu does his body shrivels up and when he walked he could not lift one leg past the other which is called a Yu walk Gilgamesh Sumerian Babylonian Unug Sumerian word for the capital city Same as Akkadian city Uruk Akkadian A Semitic language from the Akkadian people The Epic of Gilgamesh was first discovered in written Akkadian sources instead of their original Sumerian Uruk Akkadian word for the city of Urug Where Epic of Bilgames Sumerian name for Gilgamesh Was an actual Gilgamesh is centered at historical king of Unug Ninsun Goddess in the Epic of Gilgamesh Mother of Gilgamesh depicted as a human queen Lugalbanda King of Unug in Epic of Gilgamesh Father of Gilgamesh Becomes deified god like at death Epic of Gilgamesh The best seller all over Mesopotamia and beyond Story revolves around the King Gilgamesh and his quests with his best friend Enkidu Many other myths seem to derive their stories from this Epic contained in 12 tablets The Standard Version written in Akkadian cuneiform dates from 1200 BCE Belit ili Creator goddess also known as Aruru Mami Nintu in other Mesopotamian myths Forms Gilgamesh s body with god like stature and beauty Enkidu Created by Aruru because of Anu s command to keep Gilgamesh in check He s formed as the equal of Gilgamesh from a lump of clay He s hairy uncivilized and lives in the wilderness second self Enkidu is our hero s Gilgamesh second self He s the alter ego of Gilgamesh contains all the qualities that the King does not Shamhat A prostitute in the Epic of Gilgamesh sent by a hunter fed with Enkidu dismantling his traps Waits for Enkidu by the watering place and sleeps with him for 6 days and 7 nights After Enkidu is wise and civilized but rejected by the animals and wilderness Ishtar goddess of sexual desire and war Wants to sleep with Gilgamesh but she s rejected she vows that Gilgamesh will be unlucky in the coming future Humbaba Giant and designated by Ellil as the protector of the Pine Forest Sacred First quest Gilgamesh and Enkidu go on together is to kill the giant Ellil Storm god Babylonian culture King of the gods Gets fed up with human kind many times throughout the Epic Shamash Sun god in Babylonian culture Known in Sumerian as Utu helps Gilgamesh defeated Humbaba Divine council myth A myth where two or more gods get together to decide the fate of human s Epic of Gilgamesh includes various like in the Flood fight against Humbaba the delivery of the Bull of Heaven and Death of Enkidu Bull of Heaven After Ishtar s rejection she complains to her father Anu who decides to send the Bull of Heaven after Ishtar s threats The Bull of Heaven is sent to the city of Uruk and confronted by the hero and his ally Gilgamesh kills the bull with plunging a sword on the back of the its neck depicted below Gilga on Right Enkidu left Utnapishtim Name means he who found life Only man known to have immortality which is why Gilgamesh goes out on a quest to find him as he lives at the edge of the earth by the Mouth of Rivers Scorpion man Guardian of the entrance to the underworld and the mountain Mashu Gilgamesh convinces him and maybe his wife to let him pass Mashu the twin peaks mountain at the edges of


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