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23 Cards in this Set
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Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson
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They created the Index of the Types of Folktale. This compiles all these plot structures and gives them numbers by an alpha-numeric code by which to reference them.
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Alan Dundes
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Was one of the few Freudians left. All humans have a universal human biology. He starts with this point, and asks if we can postulate universal traumas from these things. Has the reading of the Earth-Diver myth in which males have pregnancy envy and boys think that birth happens anally.
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Geza Roheim
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He believes folk narratives derive from dreams. He was the first to apply Freudian analysis in the field and to entire cultures.
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Karl Abraham
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Believed that “typical dreams” have the same symbolism, which is almost always sexual and almost always wish-fulfillment.
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The Monomyth
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Joseph Campbell’s idea that all hero myths were aspects of one shapeshifting story.
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Mother Archetype
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One of Jung’s archetypes. A good iteration would be the Virgin Mary. A bad would be the sphinx.
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Otto Rank
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He came up with a heroic pattern before Lord Raglan. He sees the pattern as deriving from psychological processes, and his ends in childhood.
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Adam of Bremen
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One of our sources for Viking religion. He was a German monk who was appalled at their religious practices.
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Aesir
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The dominant group of gods in Norse mythology.
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Ahmad Ibn Fadlan
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A muslim who took a trip up the Volga river and gives an account of a funeral. He is one source for Viking religion.
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Asgard
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The home of the gods; it is simultaneously described as the center of the world and above the world.
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Baldr
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He is slain by a fellow god, because of the magic of Loki, which leads to the apocalypse.
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Blot
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A sacrificial feast made to gods that was prohibited by Christian law.
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Codex Regius
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a. The main copy of the Poetic Edda.
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Gesta Danorum
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a. History of the Danes written by a German monk.
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Godi
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a. Secular community leaders.
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Jotunheim
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a. Home of the giants in Norse mythology.
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Kenning
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a. Complex wording used in Skaldic poetry.
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Loki Midgard
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a. A giant snake that encircles the earth and fights with Thor.
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Mjolnir
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a. Thor’s hammer.
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Ragnarok
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a. The fate of the gods. The apocalypse.
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Akkadian
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East semitic language that replaced Sumerian. It was the language of Babylon and Assyria.
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Amun
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Ultimate creator god.
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