Luwili: Luwian Religious Discourse Between Anatolia and Syria

卢维安语是古代安纳托利亚和叙利亚的一种语言，在公元前1500年到700年之间有书面证明。它属于印欧语系的安纳托利亚语系，因此是赫梯语系的近亲。这在两种文字中得到证实：安纳托利亚象形文字和美索不达米亚楔形文字。大多数的鲁汶楔形文字文本仍然缺乏连贯的翻译，即使大多数单词的意思是众所周知的。这是因为这些大多是仪式咒语，对它们的解释离不开对各自仪式传统和宗教世界观的研究。此外，也没有统一的Luwian宗教，而是个别的咒语反映了安纳托利亚和叙利亚北部个别地区的当地传统和话语模式。他们理解的关键是将卢维语的宗教文本与来自同一地区的其他语言的类似作品进行比较。luwii项目的首要目标是出版所有尚未翻译的楔形文字形式的luwii宗教文本。根据目前的共识，这些文本源于赫梯首都哈图萨本身以及赫梯资料中被称为低地和基祖瓦特纳的地区。该项目的研究方法包括系统比较不同语言的宗教公式，但来自相同的微观领域，目的是阐明Luwian文本的结构。由于这一文献学调查，luwii项目将试图通过对其传播策略的详细分析来确定luwii宗教话语的模式。这项研究将同时对两个不同的科学领域作出贡献。首先，它将帮助学术界更好地理解卢语，这对赫梯学家和印欧学家都很有用。其次，它将对宗教史做出重大贡献，因为它将促进学者访问新的宗教文本语料库，并提供与该语料库相关的宗教话语的彻底分析。拟议研究计划的第二个目标是从比较和人类学的角度研究卢维族宗教话语，以确定安纳托利亚和叙利亚每个卢维族宗教传统的文化和语言特点。为此，所有项目成员将聚集在项目第二年结束时举行的会议周围，就卢维语宗教话语与邻近语言相互作用的方式交换意见。卢维利项目的成果将是卢维利楔形文字文本的评论版和第二年会议的会议记录，作为两卷单独出版。Luwian文本的版本也将作为开放源代码在Hethitologie Portal美因茨网站上发布。

Luwian is a language of ancient Anatolia and Syria, which is attested in writing between 1500 and 700 BC. It belongs to the Anatolian group of the Indo-European family and thus represents a close relative of Hittite. It is attested in two scripts: Anatolian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform. The majority of Luwian cuneiform texts still lack cohesive translations, even though the meanings of most words are well known. This is due to the fact that these are mostly ritual incantations, the interpretation of which cannot be separated from the study of the respective ritual traditions and religious worldviews. In addition, there is no such thing as a uniform Luwian religion, but individual incantations rather reflect local traditions and discourse patterns of individual parts of Anatolia and northern Syria. The key to their understanding is comparing Luwian religious texts with similar compositions in other languages coming from the same areas.The first aim of the Luwili project consists in publishing all the Luwian religious texts in cuneiform transmission that still remain without translation. According to the current consensus, these texts stem from the Hittite capital Hattusa itself as well as the areas known as Lower Land and Kizzuwatna in Hittite sources. The research methodology of the project consists in the systematic comparison of religious formulae attested in various languages but coming from the same microareas, with the goal of elucidating the structure of Luwian texts. Thanks to this philological inquiry, the Luwili project will try to determine the modalities of Luwian religious discourse through a detailed analysis of its communication strategies. This research will contribute to two different scientific fields at the same time. First, it will help the scholarly community to understand better the Luwian language, which will be useful to both Hittitologists and Indo-Europeanists. Second, it will contribute in a significant way to the history of religions, as it will facilitate scholarly access to a new corpus of religious texts and provide a thorough analysis of the religious discourse associated with this corpus.The second aim of the proposed research program consists in studying Luwian religious discourse from the comparative and anthropological perspectives in order to define the cultural and linguistic specificities of each Luwian religious tradition of Anatolia and Syria. For doing so, all the project members will gather around a conference that will be held in the end of the second year of the project, exchanging views on the ways Luwian religious discourse interacted with that of the neighbouring languages. The results of the Luwili project will be a commented edition of Luwian cuneiform texts and proceedings of the year two conference, published as two separate volumes. The edition of the Luwian texts will also be published as an open source in the Hethitologie Portal Mainz website.