Gilgamesh
The guardian spirit of the cedar forest, a nature spirit, is killed by Gilgamesh and Enkidu.
Who is Humbaba
This story includes characters and stories that parallel characters and stories in both the Old Testament (and the Hebrew Bible) — and Ancient Greek myth and legend, but it is much older than both.
What is Gilgamesh?
This is a Greek word meaning story.
What is myth?
This city overlooked the passage between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
What is Troy?
This Native American figure, like the Greek God Hermes, is a trickster.
Who is Coyote?
A storied natural disaster whose first known reference is in Gilgamesh.
What is the flood?
A medieval manuscript in the Vatican library is the oldest paper copy of this ancient text.
What is the Iliad?
Myths that explain the origins of something.
What is etiology? (or etiological)
This Greek story refers a specific geographic location, the Island of Delos.
In this White River Sioux story, Coyote gives his blanket away to this unusual recipient.
What is a rock?
The patron deity of Uruk, the OG Aphrodite, goddess of love and the morning star.
Who is Ishtar
In the 4th millennium BCE, this ancient Sumerian city was the home of Gilgamesh, its king.
What is Uruk?
A story about the birth of a god or gods.
What is a theogony?
Unlike virtue and vice, these two opposite concepts organized Greek religion.
What are order and disorder?
The Pima humorously explain the existence of these people as half-baked.
What are White people?
The stuff Enkidu eats, before he becomes ‘civilized,’ while running with the herd.
What is grass?
If the events in the Iliad really occurred, this is the century BCE that Archaeologists tells us is most likely setting for the Trojan War.
What is the 12th century BCE
This lengthy figure of speech uses “like” or “as” to illustrate something in a long poem.
One goal of Hesiod's Theogony is to establish the dominance of Olympian Zeus. This is the other primary goal.
What asserting pan-Hellenic identity?
These Native American populations retained the largest and most complete set of ancestral stories.
Two neighboring constellations of stars are known to us as Taurus (the bull) and Orion (the hunter). In the ancient Mesopotamian tradition these two constellations are associated with an episode involving a bull that is narrated in the Epic of Gilgamesh. In that episode the Taurus and Orion represent these two characters.
Who are Gilgamesh and the Bull of Heaven?
The Iliad and the Odyssey were composed in this century BCE.
What is the 8th century BCE?
The Greek Gods can be ideas, powers, parts of nature, or intelligent immortal humanoids. When something has multiple satisfactory explanations like this, it can be explained by a particular concept.
What is overdetermination? (or overdetermined)
These are some the earliest existing versions on paper that we have of the Homeric Hymns.
What are Byzantine manuscripts?
A teacher and guide of the Brulé Sioux who is also an animal.
Who is White Buffalo Woman?