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e university of cologne with the support of fest the conference was on the contemporary adaptations and associations of homer s odyssey i was invited to present a lecture on my dissertation topic soon to be published as a book with a hot half naked gladiator on the cover forum based role playing games as a form of digital storytelling incidentally this was also my first time ever visiting germany i arrived in cologne on a wednesday and since i was greeted by icy winds and rain later turning into a hailstorm and a nearby tornado i spent the time before my airbnb became available inside the cathedral it is a gorgeous gothic building that one can spend a lot of time inside among many interesting things i got to see the reliquary of the magi of which i have fond memories from university lectures taught by dr németh györgy apparently the reason why balthasar is usually portrayed as a black man can be traced back to a roman gemma used to decorate this reliquary i cheerfully wandered around the cathedral for a few hours grateful for all the things to see since the nearby roman germanic museum proved to be stubbornly closed to visitors the conference itself took place in one of the lecture halls of the university of cologne most of the presentations were in german which i could more or less follow in the morning but by the afternoon my brain was beginning to lose track of things still i was proud of catching the gist there were presentations on the narrative structure of homer s odyssey dr katharina kostopoulos the adaptations of the epic into film and comics dr michael kleu assassin s creed odyssey and its historical and narrative elements and odyssey motifs in tad williams novels dr simon lentzsch i myself talked about forum based role playing games their similarities to certain mechanics of oral tradition and how they adapt mythical characters and stories into text based gaming participants were eager and interested and we had some good q a after the lecture the treat of the day was obviously the storytelling daniel morden and hugh lupton were invited to tell us their two hour rendering of the odyssey in english both of them are masterful storytellers and hearing the epic told by them coming alive in spoken word gave me chills all over the organizers made sure we had hot tea cookies and chocolate so that we could appropriately immerse ourselves in the listening experience it was a lovely way to spend the morning in the evening we closed the conference with a free and lively discussion and invited the remaining participants to join us for delicious dinner at a small café it was a great company of researchers classicists storytellers gamers and other fun people since my flight was scheduled for the evening of the next day i had another half a day to explore cologne getting off the tram at neumarkt i ran straight into the march 15th fridaysforfuture march and got to witness thousands of children and teenagers protesting for climate action it was an incredible experience that restored a lot of my faith in humanity the kids are here to save us all since it was also raining pretty hard by then i decided to underground and visit the roman praetorium it is a great archaeological site that no one else seemed to be interested in at the time so i got to wander around alone in the roman sewer system and the covered ruins area the sewers also figure into a fun legend about the building of the cathedral in which they allegedly were dug out by the devil it was a short trip but a lot of fun cologne is a nice city and the conference was great not just because of the storytelling but because i got to see so many researchers from different fields come together to share our enthusiasm for old stories and new adaptations i hope fest will support other events like this in the future game on people posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 9 33 pm 1 comment labels conferences digital storytelling game studies germany mythology role playing games travel monday march 11 2019 bedtime lions following folktales around the world 102 sudan today i continue the blog series titled following folktales around the world if you would like to know what the series is all about you can find the introduction post here you can find all posts here or you can follow the series on facebook dinka folktales african stories from the sudan francis mading deng africana publishing company 1984 the book contains 21 stories from the dinka tradition the dinka are the largest ethnic group in sudan at the time when this book was written they lived in twenty five separate tribal groups dr deng collected the stories with the help of a recording device that was sometimes left in the care of the people for the night so that bedtime stories could be recorded as they naturally occurred the book comes with a densely worded foreword about the role of stories in dinka society an introduction from the collector and an afterword about dinka culture and society to provide context for the tales the introduction reveals some fascinating tidbits such as bedtime stories are generally known as lions lions are feared and respected or that the word the dinka use for storytelling paar literally translates into an attempt to reconstruct as much of the truth as possible from the scanty information available dinka tales are usually told in the evening when everyone goes to bed and storytellers pass the word around until everyone falls asleep calling them lion is very appropriate i only found two stories in the book that did not feature lions highlights one of my favorite stories in the book was ayak and the lost bridegroom a lioness kidnapped the groom from his wedding so the bride set out to rescue him she even wrestled the lioness to win him back in another friendlier story achol and her adoptive lioness mother two abandoned children were adopted by a lioness the boy ran away but the girl stayed and was raised by the lioness who eventually helped her find her family this was also the only story where the lion was not killed in the end but accepted into the human family in the story of diirawic the heroine s brother wanted to marry her so she ran away into the wilderness with all the girls in her village they built a fortress and lived there for five years they tamed a lion whom they adopted as a brother eventually they returned home and a girl found herself a husband she gave birth to twelve human children and a lion cub in the tale of aluel and her loving father an active and caring father figure appeared next to the wicked stepmother he did his best to keep the stepmother from hurting aluel when she ran away anyway the girl was adopted by the sun and his two wives since they could not have children of their own more than one sun would have been risky for the earth she was raised in the sun s house and eventually returned to her father in the story of deng and his vicious stepmother it was the half brother that helped the hero both boys were named deng but one had a mortal woman for a mother and the other a lioness when the lioness went feral lion deng saved his brother repeatedly they even rescued two children from lions in the story of achol and her wild mother the mother sold herself piece by piece to a lion to help her family until she turned into a feral lion herself her children had to campture her beat her and tame her to turn her human again connections the story of acienggaakdit és acienggaakthii fit the tale type of the kind and the unkind girls although not perfectly the older mean half sister sent her kind little sister away the little sister had broken her favorite gourd and the mean girl insisted it should be repaired with lion hair luckily the little half sister s full sister was married to a lion so she turned to them for help following her loving sister s advice she managed to make friends with the lion and get away with a handful of hair her mean half sister seeing proof of her bravery grew jealous and decided to go on the same quest but of course being rude and brash she never returned where to next chad posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am no comments labels africa animals folktales following folktales sudan thursday march 7 2019 the badass grandmas of hungarian folktales a folklorethursday special tomorrow is international women s day i have been working on a feminist hungarian folktales collection and the deeper i dug into out folklore archives the more often i encountered old women who were smart active and all around badass i decided that i would like to highlight them in this year s post so without further ado badass grandmas and aunties of hungarian folktales the ex princess in a folktale by a traditional teller from rozsály a young scythian king makes a name for himself by rescuing a cursed princess her father had punished her because she fell in love with the wrong person when the scythian prince sets her free she promises to repay his kindness one day time flies the king has sons the sons grow up and set out to seek their fortune on the way an old woman joins them not so subtly helping them along she rescues them from bandits and packs the bandit chief s head away in her purse later on when a king promises his daughter to whoever can rid the woods of bandits granny pulls out the severed head and demands the princess for one of the lads the king is not too enthusiastic about the match and orders his servants to toss the prince out of the highest tower at night but luckily the prince falls right into the arms of the old woman who has been waiting around below the tower with her back to the wall to catch him as the story progresses she blinds an entire army secures the match for one brother and finds another princess for the other until all is well in the end once a double wedding is celebrated the cursed princess turned badass grandma turns into a dove and flies away the salty witch you know that story right i love you like people love salt well in a hungarian roma variant the princess exiled by her narcissistic father ends up in the woods and is found by an old woman everyone in the area is scared of granny states that the king is a real piece of work and adopts the princess eventually a young man joins them as a servant one day granny decides it is time to teach the king a lesson and takes the princess home to the palace where they cook an unsalted feast together the king of course learns his lesson about the importance of seasoning and to drive the point home granny starts shaking salt out of a magic bag filling up the room yelling is that enough salt yet is that enough when the king begs for forgiveness the old lady nods good and don t ever make me save your daughter from you again word the dragon slayer in another roma folktale an old man is imprisoned for a crime he didn t commit and his wife is left alone the old woman sets out to rescue her husband walking through a forest everyone warns her not to enter it belongs to a dragon on the way the old woman meets the dragon it has 28 heads she offers it some milk and manages to lull and hum and pet it to sleep while the dragon is sleeping she cuts off her long hair and ties the beast up so thoroughly that when it wakes and struggles it strangles itself once people in town hear what she s done they let her husband go free the smart mother in law this transcarpathian story included in my book is a variant of rumpelstiltskin that is much kinder and all around nicer than the grimm version more importantly it features a dowager queen the king s mother who is on her daughter in law s side from the first moment to cover up the lie about spinning gold day after day she stands in the door of the girl s room spinning stories about why the gold is not ready no one dares question her word so she keeps winning time until the whole situation is resolved the demon hunter hungarian folklore features a type of demonic being known as a lidérc most often it appears as an ugly chicken with magical properties it can bring you whatever you want in great quantities and it will make you rich but the moment it gets bored it takes your soul to hell owners of lidérc chicken have to continuously keep them busy because their soul is on the line in one story a widow finds such a creature but soon discovers that it is impossible to coexist with when it is not piling things into the house it keeps chirping what what what until it is given another task eventually the wise old neighbor woman comes up with a solution for how to get rid of the demon you have to give it an impossible task following the sage advice the widow frees herself and splits the spoils with her neighbor bonus the virgin mary there is a transylvanian folktale that is very similar to bluebeard but has a better ending in this one the heroine helps her sisters escape from the murderer s castle and finds a new life for herself as well however her evil ex husband eventually catches up to her kidnaps her and drags her back home by the hair on the way the scene is noticed by the virgin mary who stops the man and demands to know what is going on when the man claims that he has the right to punish his runaway wife the virgin says no you don t you are a devil and you have no claim on any woman and with that she turns the man into stone and escorts the woman back home happy international women s day to all real life badass grandmas aunties godmothers and other legendary elders posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am 2 comments labels ageism feminism folklorethursday folktales hungarian representation women women s day monday march 4 2019 land of life and death following folktales around the world 101 egypt today i continue the blog series titled following folktales around the world if you would like to know what the series is all about you can find the introduction post here you can find all posts here or you can follow the series on facebook folktales of egypt hasan m el shamy university of chicago press 1982 a classic collection from a great series egyptian folklorist hasan el shamy has done incredible work for the collection and preservation of egyptian andarab folktales at the start of his research in the 1960s mere dozens of tales had been collected he started a campaign to record and archive oral tradition all over egypt including copt nubian and berber communities this book contains 70 of the more than 2000 tales that have been preserved there is a long foreword about egyptian storytelling from american folklorist richard m dorson and a shorter introduction from the editor from the latter we learn a lot about egyptian oral tradition and the role of storytelling in everyday life such as wonder tales were almost always told by women and that by the 1960s there were no professional tellers working in cairo before each story we learn about the storyteller and get a short note with information about the cultural elements of the tale at the end of the book there are ample 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