CLT 3378 Final Exam Study Guide Folktale Heroines Aarne Thompson made by Anti Aarne and revised Smith Thompson A Tale Type index that labels all the stories under folktale motifs a single element or idea in a story Ex specific categories Magic ring Motif Index of Folk Literature a classification of narrative elements in folktales ballads myths fables medieval romances exempla fabliaux jest books and local legends folktale types The type of story Ex Dragon Slayer AT Tale Type 720 In the Aarne Thompson tale type Index the type of tale The Juniper Tree The Crows Nest and the Rose Tree fall under is My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me The Juniper Tree German Origin Tale type 720 The mother kills the son and turns him into black pudding and feeds him to his father The sister puts the bones of her brother at the Juniper Tree A bird then sings this story to several shop owners and takes an expensive chain shoes and a millstone The bird then gives the chain to the father shoes to the daughter and then crushes the mother with the millstone Marlinchen The Crow s Nest Hungarian origin The mother kills the son puts him in cabbage stew and feeds the stew to his father The sister then puts the bones in a tree Then a crow which is the boy is perched on a tree and sings his song to people who pass by One man gave the crow his cloak another his crutch stick and the miller gave him a millstone The crow gave the cloak to his sister the crutch to the father and threw the millstone at the mother and killed her The Rose Tree England A tale where the mother kills the Daughter puts her heart and liver in a stew and feeds it to the husband The brother then buried her bones under a rose tree A white bird then sang and flew to a cobbler s shop and sang and took red shoes from the shoe maker Then went to a watchmaker and sang and took his gold watch and chain Then the bird sang to millers and took the millstone The bird then gave the shoes to the boy watch and chain to the father and dropped the millstone on the mothers head AT Folktale Type 425 The Search for the Lost Husband Cupid and Psyche Original story by Lucius Apuleius An Embedded narrative Cupid Was sent by Venus to make Psyche fall in love with an unattractive man Ends up accidently falling in love with Psyche and marry Leaves Psyche because she sees him but comes back when Psyche becomes an Olympian Psyche Beautiful woman who was envied by Venus Falls in love with Cupid marries but cannot see him She shines a candle light on him and sees Cupid but he has to leave because she saw him She is given tasks by Venus to fulfill that are nearly impossible but does them and can marry Cupid and becomes an Olympian Venus and Psyche Lucius Apuleius from Madaura Africa wrote Metamorposes or the Golden Ass and in that story is Cupid The Singing Soaring Lark German Under the tale type 425 The Search for the Lost Husband The husband is a lion during the day and prince at night Turns into dove for seven years because of the sunlight 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 Gilgamesh is centered at Bilgames Sumerian name for Gilgamesh Was an actual 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 earth Where Shamash the sun rises from Ur Sumerian city where in a cemetery many findings were discovered One was the Great Lyre Great Lyre Discovered in a tomb in city of Ur Contains many panels that relate to the Epic of Gilgamesh bottom panel includes a depiction of the Scorpion man Siduri A goddess and an alewife beer seller that runs a tavern Advises Gilgamesh that he will find Utnapishtim by crossing the sea
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