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- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Arapahoe_Community_College/Hum_115%3A_World_Mythology_(Stafinbil)/02%3A_Mesopotamia_Middle_East_and_Near_EastIn Gilgamesh, the title character begins the story as an impressive epic hero, but a poor leader (as the gods themselves indicate in the story when they respond to the prayers of the citizens of Uruk,...In Gilgamesh, the title character begins the story as an impressive epic hero, but a poor leader (as the gods themselves indicate in the story when they respond to the prayers of the citizens of Uruk, who are begging the gods to protect them from their own king).
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Arapahoe_Community_College/Hum_115%3A_World_Mythology_(Stafinbil)/07%3A_IndiaThe Bhagavad-Gita is the most directly religious work, containing as it does the teaching of the god Vishnu through his avatar Krishna, but the other two texts include direct participation of gods (an...The Bhagavad-Gita is the most directly religious work, containing as it does the teaching of the god Vishnu through his avatar Krishna, but the other two texts include direct participation of gods (and their avatars) in the stories. Characters need to be the best they can be (following their individual dharma) in the Varna and Jat into which they were born in order to move up the hierarchy in their next reincarnation.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Arapahoe_Community_College/Hum_115%3A_World_Mythology_(Stafinbil)/06%3A_China_and_Japan/6.01%3A_The_Analects-Confucius_(551-479_B.C.E.)Last of all, the Master asked Tsang Hsi, “Tien, what are your wishes?” Tien, pausing as he was playing on his lute, while it was yet twanging, laid the instrument aside, and “My wishes,” he said, “are...Last of all, the Master asked Tsang Hsi, “Tien, what are your wishes?” Tien, pausing as he was playing on his lute, while it was yet twanging, laid the instrument aside, and “My wishes,” he said, “are different from the cherished purposes of these three gentlemen.” “What harm is there in that?” said the Master; “do you also, as well as they, speak out your wishes.” Tien then said, “In this, the last month of spring, with the dress of the season all complete, along with five or six young men who…
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Arapahoe_Community_College/Hum_115%3A_World_Mythology_(Stafinbil)/02%3A_Mesopotamia_Middle_East_and_Near_East/2.02%3A_Hebrew_Bible_Genesis_And_Exodus1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt; 2 Then Jethro, Moses’...1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt; 2 Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back, 3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: 4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from…
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Literature_and_Literacy/World_Literature/Compact_Anthology_of_World_Literature_(Getty_and_Kwon)/04%3A_Rome/4.01%3A_The_Aeneid_Virgil_(70-19_B.C.E.)The epic was commissioned by the first Roman emperor, Augustus Caesar, to justify why Rome was no longer a republic: According to the story, the gods themselves planned for Rome to become an empire lo...The epic was commissioned by the first Roman emperor, Augustus Caesar, to justify why Rome was no longer a republic: According to the story, the gods themselves planned for Rome to become an empire long before Rome ever existed, and legend is rewritten so that the Trojan Aeneas (who appears in Homer’s Iliad) becomes the model Roman citizen.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Literature_and_Literacy/World_Literature/World_Literature_I_-_Beginnings_to_1650_Part_I_-_The_Ancient_World_(Getty_and_Kwon)/04%3A_Rome/4.01%3A_Prelude_to_RomeOvid’s works included a book of letters by the women who are abandoned by the so-called heroes of mythology (the Heroides), a scandalous book of love poetry (the Amores), and a manual on how to pick u...Ovid’s works included a book of letters by the women who are abandoned by the so-called heroes of mythology (the Heroides), a scandalous book of love poetry (the Amores), and a manual on how to pick up women (the Ars Amatoria). Worship of the most important gods was directed by the flamines maiores (the “major priests”) of the three principle cults (to Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus), while the flamines minores (or “minor priests”) directed the worship of the rest of the gods.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Literature_and_Literacy/World_Literature/World_Literature_I_-_Beginnings_to_1650_Part_I_-_The_Ancient_World_(Getty_and_Kwon)/02%3A_China/2.05%3A_The_Mother_of_MenciusI have carefully examined three attempts, made by competent scholars of the present dynasty, to construct a Harmony that shall reconcile the statements of the "Seven Books" with the current chronologi...I have carefully examined three attempts, made by competent scholars of the present dynasty, to construct a Harmony that shall reconcile the statements of the "Seven Books" with the current chronologies of the time, and do not see my way to adopt entirely the conclusions of any one of them.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Literature_and_Literacy/World_Literature/World_Literature_I_-_Beginnings_to_1650_Part_I_-_The_Ancient_World_(Getty_and_Kwon)/01%3A_Middle_East_Near_East_Greece/1.02%3A_Hebrew_Bible_-_Genesis_and_ExodusAnd Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat. \(^{16}\)This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for ...And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat. \(^{16}\)This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents. \(^{17}\)And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. \(^{18}\)And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little…
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Literature_and_Literacy/World_Literature/World_Literature_I_-_Beginnings_to_1650_Part_I_-_The_Ancient_World_(Getty_and_Kwon)/03%3A_IndiaHow do the characters view the gods, and how do the gods treat humans? The works in this chapter were written down starting around the 4th century B.C.E., but the three stories date back to much earli...How do the characters view the gods, and how do the gods treat humans? The works in this chapter were written down starting around the 4th century B.C.E., but the three stories date back to much earlier in the oral tradition. The best choice is often the most difficult one, and the expectations of society for these characters can seem overwhelming.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Literature_and_Literacy/World_Literature/Compact_Anthology_of_World_Literature_(Getty_and_Kwon)/02%3A_China/2.05%3A_The_Zhuangzi_-_Zhuangzi_(ca._369-286_B.C.E.)Take the projecting bluff of a mountain forest in the great trees, a hundred spans round, the apertures and cavities are like the nostrils, or the mouth, or the ears; now square, now round like a cup ...Take the projecting bluff of a mountain forest in the great trees, a hundred spans round, the apertures and cavities are like the nostrils, or the mouth, or the ears; now square, now round like a cup or a mortar; here like a wet footprint, and there like a large puddle. (The sounds issuing from them are like) those of fretted water, of the arrowy whizz, of the stern command, of the inhaling of the breath, of the shout, of the gruff note, of the deep wail, of the sad and piping note.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Literature_and_Literacy/World_Literature/Compact_Anthology_of_World_Literature_(Getty_and_Kwon)/01%3A_Middle_East_Near_East_Greece/1.01%3A_Hebrew_Bible_Genesis_And_Exodus1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt; 2 Then Jethro, Moses’...1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt; 2 Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back, 3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: 4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from…
