LLT 321 Basic terms for Quiz 2:  Enuma Elish, Greek Theogony, 
Hittite and other parallels, Egyptian Creation
 
1) Outline the Babylonian Creation, leading up to the triumph of Marduk:
 
Apsu and Tiamat >>Lahmu and Lahamu>>Anshar and Kishar>>Anu>>Ea/Nudimmud
 
Ea vs. Apsu
 Ea and Damkina (>>Marduk)
 
Marduk vs. Tiamat
 Kingu
Making of Man
 
Jacobsen's Political Model (Anarchy to permanent Monarchy)
 
2) Outine the main progression in Hesiod's Theogony.
 
Chaos >> Gaia (Earth) Eros, Tartaros, (Erebos and Night)
Gaia >> Ouranos (Heaven) Ourea, and Pontos (Mtns. and Sea)
Titans 12 (know 5 or 6): Okeanos (Ocean), Hyperion, Themis, Mnemosyne, Iapetus
 Cronos and Rhea
 Other offspring of Gaia and Ouranos: Cyclopes and Hundred-handers
 Castration of Ouranos (and offspring: Aphrodite and Furies)
 Sons of Iapetus: Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus
 
Offspring of Cronos and Rhea: elder Olympians
 Poseidon, Hades, Demeter (Hestia) Hera, and Zeus
How does Zeus succeed in overthrowing Cronos? (Titanomachy)
 
3) Other Eastern Succession Myths: prologue Sumerian Creation
 
 a) Hittite Kingship in Heaven
 
Alalu vs. Anu vs. Kumarbi vs. Teshub vs. Ullikummi
 
 b) Mesopotamian Theogony of Dunnu  (progeny of Earth and Plow)
 
 
4) Challengers to Zeus: struggle for kingship continued 
 
a) Hesiod Theogony, War of Gods and Giants; Typhoeus (=Typhon)
 
Prometheus: trick of sacrifice, theft of fire.
 
Brides of Zeus: and the Lesson of Metis (>> Athena)
 Titans--Themis (> Fates) , Mnemosyne (>Muses), Maia, daughter of Atlas (>Hermes)
Olympians--Demeter (>Persephone), etc. 
 
 
b) Atrahasis and Works and Days ('Ages of Man' & Pandora)
 
How does the cycle of Ages in Greek Tradition compare with the tales of Ziusudra and Atrahasis? 
 
Is there a similar perspective on the relationship of god to men? 
 
5) Egyptian (Heliopolite) Creation 
 
Nu >> Atum (and benben)  
Atum (self-procreating)>> Shu and Tefnut
Geb and Nut >> Seth, Nephthys, Isis and Osiris
 
 
Isis and Osiris >>Horus Osiris and Nepthys >>Anubis
Earth-sky separation represented as Shu parting Geb and Nut
Power struggle/kinconflict represented in clash of Osiris vs. Seth vs. Horus
 
6) Egyptian Cataclysm: 
 
Compare the role of Re  with other vindictive Creators, Zeus and Enlil.