An N Ea Quiz

Fear is separated into 2 groups

individual and collective/societal fear

major fear in the ancient world

women, foreigners, death

Jacque Lacan

his work: having relations with a prying mantis

Plays into anxiety: how the prying mantis will react, and the observer

How we feel being observed, more so the anxiety of being observed and perceived by the other

his perception of fear is hinged on the reaction of something

Julia Kristeva

the theory of abjection: breaking down of boundaries

When we have something that is familiar, but a certain boundary is crossed causing anxiety and distrust

it’s immoral, sinister, scheming, and shady

ex. being betrayed by a best friend, the fragility of law

Sigmond Freud

the theory of the uncanny

when something familiar is slightly distorted where it’s now perceived with uneasiness and anxiety

when boundaries decay

Fear is culturally specific

there are collective fears

archetypes that are supposed to represent everybody don’t work

Joseph Campbell

The Hero’s Journey

the typical path that a lot of stories take

hero having to deal with some sort of journey, more so killing the monster then returning the hero

mostly reflects western culture, but doesn’t really apply other culture specificities

Ashipu/asipu

the exorcist

highly trained magic practitioners

Stand in for Enki

Usually a man

Mesopotamia: the foreign

they considered foreigners as subhuman and beastly

Mesopotamia

The land between two rivers

ruled as a matriarchal system

short lived empires

udug

the summerian word for demon

a specific demon

often formless, can be male or female

targets individuals

can act positively or negatively

lamma

a protective spirit

benevolent goddess

always positive

depicted as female

Lamashtu

once a goddess, but was casted out of heaven for eating babies

represents infant mortality

Pazuzu

wind god

counter to Lamashtu

neither good nor bad, but a chaotic demon

The Netherworld

The mountains, the netherworld, foreign lands (KUR)

a place of no return (kur-nu-gi-a)

house where light doesn’t enter

home to: demons, the dead, gods who rule over both

represented by crossing a river

Scapegoat

a sacrificial scapegoat

ritual transfer

the process involved removing a spirit that was ailing someone, putting it in a goat and sacrificing the goat

Mesopotamia: forms of protection

sympathetic magic

amulets of pazuzu

incantations to remove the spirit of lamashtu or other demons form one’s being or living area

Kassaptu

the witch

usually unnamed

usually a female

Maqlu: “The Burning”

complex, nighttime ceremony to expel a witch

expels witch via statuettes/ figurines

witch cast out, burned

expelled from the netherworld, to be judge by the gods

Egypt: foreign

fears the foreign in respect to death and funerary rites

acknowledge the foreign

Egypt

has natural boundaries, has long periods of unification

Sinuhe

wants to return to egypt so he can be buried there

Shipwrecked Sailor

description of Punt

despite the glory ofPunt, egypt is superior

idea of the foreign as fantastical

Seth/ Set

represents chaos

set animal

deity and lord of the Red Land (desert)

sometimes the antagonist

the duat

the realm of the dead

the place where the dead and their souls go for judgement

Liminal

Ka= lies inside the heart, the person’s character

Ba=spirit that has to return to a person

The journey of the underworld

book of the dead

a very long scroll that tells people how to get to the good afterlife

includes spells that should be written in the person’s coffin, what steps need to occur to the body,

Shows Ani’s funeral

coffin texts

spells and incantations that are need for the trials in the after life

specifically for commoners

pyramid texts

spells and incantations that are need for the trials in the after life

specifically for the pharaoh and elites

democratization of the afterlife

the book of the dead is available for everyone because of mass production