Original title: Staroegyptské mytologické narativy. Strukturalistické interpretace Příběhu o dvou bratrech, Příběhu o princi, kterému byl předurčen osud, Astartina papyru, Usirovského cyklu a Anatina mýtu
Translated title: Ancient Egyptian Mythological Narratives. Structural Interpretation of the Tale of Two Brothers, Tale of the Doomed Prince, the Astarte Papyrus, the Osirian Cycle and the Anat Myth
Authors: Pehal, Martin ; Chlup, Radek (advisor) ; Spalinger, Anthony John (referee) ; Stauder, Andreas (referee)
Document type: Doctoral theses
Year: 2015
Language: eng
Abstract: is study is composed of two units: manuscript of the author's publication Interpreting Ancient Egyptian Narratives: A Structural Analysis of the Tale of Two Brothers, the Anat Myth, the Osirian Cycle, and the Astarte Papyrus (Nouvelles études orientales, Bruxelles-Fernelmont: EME, 2014) and an additonal chapter entitled Accommodating Ambivalence: Case of the Doomed Prince and His Dog, which follows directly a er the Index of the first unit and which extends the applied methodology to yet another New Kingdom mythological narrative, the so-called Tale of the Doomed Prince. Methodologically, the author follows the neo-structuralist approach. Both studies explain the strong configurational character of ancient Egyptian (mythological) thought which has the ability to connect various ontological levels of human experience with the surrounding world into complex synchronic structures. ese symbolical systems are shown to be mediating between the various cultural paradoxes which were inherent to ancient Egyptian society. Axial role in this process is a ributed to the institution of positional kingship represented by the Pharaoh. Its transformative function is also put into relation to the special status of female characters who are shown to play the part of the "powerful powerless ones" further personifying...
Keywords: Anat; Anat Myth; Astarte-Papyrus; cultural influence; foreign in Egypt; foreign on Egypt; gender; god; king; literature NK; myth; mythology; narratives; Near East; Near Eastern religion; Osiris myth; positional kingship; structuralism; structure of; Syria-Palestine; Tale of the Doomed Prince; Tale of two Brothers; text; Anat; blízkovýchodní náboženství; Blízký východ; bůh; cizí na Egypt; cizí v Egyptě; egyptská Nová říše; gender; král; kterému byl předurčen osud; kulturní vliv; literatura; mytologie; mýtus; mýtus o Anatě; narativ; Papyrus Astarte; poziční nástupnictví; Příběh dvou bratrů; Příběh o princi; struktura; strukturalizmus; Sýrie-Palestina; text; Usirův mýtus

Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses) (web)
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Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/77928

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