PSYC340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Svarga, Khosrow I, Dharma
22 May 2017
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Afterlife key words and concepts to remember. Psychological theories: freud denial of death, lifton five modes of symbolic. Enuma elish (creation myth) humans designed to be mortal, to serve the gods. Arallu (place of the dead, the (cid:498)house of dust(cid:499)) end of the book) you don(cid:495)t need to memorize all these names, but you should have. Deities and other characters important to the epic of gilgamesh (see glossary at the a general idea of their presence in the narrative: Aruru, gilgamesh (king of uruk), enkidu, ninsun (mother of gilgamesh), the. Initiatory themes (the sleep test: is gilgamesh fit for eternal life?) Enkidu and gilgamesh as nature and culture, the wild and the civilized. Utnapishtim (flood hero) as exception that proves the rule that humans are mortal. Gilgamesh comes of age, accepts his mortality, and his responsibility as just king, family man, and ritual consort of ishtar.
