ENG150Y1 Lecture Notes - Indo-European Languages, Enlil, Enkidu
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The ramayana, popular epic of the indian culture. Still told and retold in the indian culture: dance, play, song, comic books, movies. Diwali celebrations: about the return of rama and sita after their journey. All of the above is basically irrelevant in this class apparently. Many versions of the story, but they all seem to start with the valmiki story. 400-200 bce (books 2-6: later than the odyssey, before aeneid. Many different versions for the culture that it was written in. Most important way to tell a story was through memory: text as a written document was only used really to make memorization easier. From one guru to a disciple, and repeat. The ramayana was like this, with maybe a parallel written text. Page 4: the scene with a hunter killed a songbird with an arrow. Valmiki cursed the hunter: the disciple"s are using the writing, valmiki discovers the poetic meter.
