K. Dickson
CLCS 333
Comparative Mythology
Review List: Test 1
Last Updated: 31.1.07 Noah 5.2.07:
Utu
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For
Test 1 you should be familiar
with
the meaning and also the significance of the following names, terms,
and
issues:
abzu
anthropogony
anthropomorphic
Anu
akitu
apkallu
Apsu
axis mundi
archetype
Baal
charter myth
combat myth
cosmogony
cosmology
created world
cosmogony
Dumuzi
Enki
Enkidu
Enlil
Enuma
Elish
Ereshkigal
etiological myth
Euhemerism
evolved world
cosmogony
folktale
Genesis
Gilgamesh
hieros gamos
homeostatic
Huwawa (Humbaba)
immanent deity
Inanna
Kingship in Heaven
Kumarbi
legend
Magna Mater
Marduk
me
monolingual
Ninhursag
Noah
Qingu
regeneration myth
sacred myth
Shamhat
Song
of Ullikummi
structuralism
Sumer
Tablet of Destinies
Teshub
theriomorphic
Tiamat
transcendent deity
Utnapishtim
Utu
verisimilar
Yahweh
ziggurat
You should be familiar with the following
themes and issues:
•basic attributes of "myth"
•different worldviews and moral systems embodied respectively in myth,
legend, and folktale
•psychological approaches to myths
•structural approach to myths
•pattern for cosmogonic myths
•pattern for combat myths
•pattern for regeneration myths
•pattern for heroic myths
•basic features of ancient Mesopotamian culture
•comparison among Sumerian/Babylonian, Hittite, and Hebrew creation
myths
•themes and issues in legend of
Gilgamesh