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 Tale of Buluqiya One of the 300 stories in The thousand and one nights Heavily based on the Epic of Gilgamesh Talks about King Buluqiya s quest to find Sulaiman s ring to rule all things The Thousand and One Nights Arabic collection of multiple stories Every night queen shahrazad tells a story to the sultan to distract him from killing her Arabian Nights English name for The one thousand and one nights Arabic TaON is considered arabic From Arabia The middle east including Turkey Iran and Iraq Islam The islam religion was based on the prophet Muhammad The death of the prophet ended the Sassanian empire Sassanid Sassanian Means Persian empire Huge empire in Iraq 224 651 CE The Thousand and one nights is set in the imes of this empire frame narrative Shahriar The Sultan in TaON his wife cheats on him she is killed and then he marries virgens fucks them then kills them on their wedding night Sultan The king of leader of an Arab empire vizier the right hand man or adviser to the sultan in ToAN it s the father of Scheherazade Scheherazade Shahrazad aka Scheherazade daughter of the vizier She volunteers to marry the Sultan in hopes to stop the murders On wedding night she begins to tell story but does not finish it Sultan wants to hear end of story so he does not kill her This continues for a thousand and one nights and is the frame narrative for each story including the Tale of Buluqiya Tale of Buluqiya Sulaiman Arabic spelling for King Solomon in his tomb is the magic ring that gives you godlike powers Isle of First Sea An isle filled with wondrous gemstones At night gemstones turn to sea monsters with lighted stones Isle of Seven Seas Ring is on the other side of them They cannot be sailed across only walked Isle of Seventh Sea They come to a giant guarding a tree The tree of knowledge from Adam and Eve Yamlika Queen of underground where the plant sap which gives you power to walk on water She gives plant to Buluqiya but tells him not to try to get the ring and offers him a second plant that would give him eternal youth but he rejects Affan Man who travels with Buluqiya over the seven seas turns to dust after Buluqiya says a spell backwards Hasib Yamkila seems to be narrating the tale of buluqiya to Hasib Described as being young and maybe compared to the Sultan imbedded embedded narrative Story within a story where a character in one story begins to tell the tale of another story Allah The name of the Islamic God Background Reading 8 Buluqiya Mohammed Founder and prophet of Islam Born in the Arabian city of Mecca in 570 CE Islam Monotheistic religion which was spread by the prophet Mohammad Islamic armies conquered much of Arabia Antoine Galland A French scholar who first translated TaON in 1704 This translation was later translated to english with the mistranslated title Arabian Night s entertainment Folktale Heroines Aarne Thompson The index is a multivolume listing designed to help folklorists identify recurring plot pattern It was first developed by Anniti Aarne and was translated by Thompson folktale motifs single element idea in a story repeated Motif Index of Folk Literature Thompson indexed repeated story elements that are used in the traditional plot structures or tale types of many stories folktale types Type of stories ie fairy tales myths legends epics AT Tale Type 720 my mother she killed me my father he ate me Basic Scheme father has two children daughter and son mother or stepmother kills
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