HUM 201, World Mythology

HUM 201, “World Mythology” Study Guide for Tests All lists are in alphabetical order

Test #1  “processes of mythic production”  “understanding myth” (ways of gaining insight)  Ages of Man (Hesiod and Ovid)  Aprodite  Athena (Parthenos)  Chaos (Hesiod vs. Ovid)  Creation of the world in Genesis  Definition of myth  Demeter  Division of Tiamat and kingship of Marduk  Elohim  Erebos  Eris  Firmament  Gaia and Ouranos  Genesis: “in the beginning…”  Marduk, and his defeat of Tiamat  Muses  Ovid: “sing of metamorphoses”  Ovid’s description of creation of the world  Pandora and her “cask”  Paratactic vs. syntactic storytelling  Prometheus, Epimetheus  Tartarus  The Deep (Genesis)  The Iliad  The Odyssey  The Trojan War  Tiamat, Apsu, Ea; death of Apsu  Titans, Kronos, Rhea  Tohu va-bohu  Tree of life  Tree of the knowledge of good and evil  Zeus, Hera Test # 2  “Holy People” (Navajo)  Aesir  air-spirit people  Asgard  Baldr  covenant  destruction at Ragnarok  Differences and similarities of the flood according to the Epic of Gilgamesh, “Genesis,” and Ovid  Einherjar  Ginnungagap  Gylfi  Heimdall  Hrym  Loki  Midgard  Mimir  Muspel  Navajo creation story, the creation of the people  Niflheim  Noah: flood, the dove, the bow  Noah’s sons  Norse peoples  Odin  Oral myths vs. written myths  Ovid’s story of the flood: Mt. Parnassus, creation of humans  prayersticks  Pyrrha and Deucalion  sipapuni  Snorri’s creation accounts  the frost ogres (giants)  Thor  Utnapishtam  Vanir  Yggdrasil  Zuni Emergence myth Test # 3  Anancy or Anansi  Anthropomorphic  B’er Rabbit  Baldr  Bull of Heaven  Euchalon (the Raven)  Fenrir  Gilgamesh  Heracles  Heracles’ labors  Heracles’ madness  Humbaba  Ishtar  Know basic plots of African and African-American trickster stories  Loki  Loki  Mesopotamian gods (general characteristics)  Mjollnir  Nas-ca’kiyel  Odin  Pandora  Plant of youth regained  Prometheus (tricks and punishments)  Prometheus Bound  Raven (northwestern Amerind)  Raven and Petrel  Raven at the head of the Nass  Shamash  Syncretism  Tiwaz  Trickster figures (general characteristics)  Tyr  Utnapishtim  Valhalla and its inhabitants  Valkyries Test # 4  Aphrodite  Athena  Demeter (and cult/rituals of Demeter)  Demophöon  Dionysus (characteristics, rituals)  Eleusis  Enuma Elish (creation account)  Flood Stories: Greek, Utnapishtam, Noah  Freyja  Genesis (creation account)  Gilgamesh, Enkidu, Humbaba  Heracles  Life-cycle rituals  Loki  Luminal  Luminoid  Navajo creation story  Odin  Orgy  Paratactic vs. syntactic  Persephone  Prometheus  sipapuni  Shamanism  Syncretism  Syntactic  Transgressive  Trickster (Important details from Amerind, African, African-American trickster stories)  Valkyries  Yggdrasil  Zeus  Zuni emergence myth