Avestan Ritual in India

在印度，琐罗亚斯德教的祭司们在他们长达数千年、持续数小时的庄严仪式中所进行的仪式活动，其顺序、等级和动态特性是什么？avindia的目的是检测、描述、可视化和分析这些仪式是如何被系统地组织起来的，并重建它们的起源和历史轨迹。以维斯佩拉德仪式为案例研究，并使用电影和计算技术，AVINDIA研究了其制作的电影中的仪式活动，古吉拉特语来源，以及梵语版本的阿维斯陀背诵文本，以追踪仪式在印度如何实践和理解的历史变化。除了基于详细研究的分析之外，还通过分析印度-伊朗历时视角下维斯佩拉德的仪式结构来检查长时间和跨越宗教文化边界的变化。维斯佩拉德提供了一个理想的案例研究，因为现场表演仍然可以在印度看到，而且只有在那里。我们的总体目标是有助于更深入地了解和欣赏这种古老的、活着的、但极度濒危的人类遗产，它起源于印度伊朗人的史前口头文化。avindia开发了一种描述和分析琐罗亚斯德教仪式行为的技术，既系统又详细，对仪式研究和其他领域的研究人员很有用。它对学者们正在进行的探索语言语法和非语言类语法、结构化系统（如音乐、舞蹈和仪式）之间的类比的尝试做出了贡献。这个跨学科的项目跨越了民族志电影研究、仪式研究、数字人文和文献学之间的界限，并为民族学、人类学、语言学、历史学、社会学、宗教研究和表演研究等领域的学者开辟了研究项目。

What are the sequential, hierarchical and dynamic properties of ritual activities which Zoroastrian priestsperform in India to this day in their millennia-old solemn rituals lasting for many hours? The aim of AVINDIAis to detect, describe, visualise and analyse how these rituals are structured as systematically organised activity,and to reconstruct their genesis and historical trajectory. Taking the Visperad ritual as a case study, and usingfilm and computational technologies, AVINDIA examines the ritual activities in the film it creates, in Gujaratilanguage sources, and in the Sanskrit version of the Avestan recitation text in order to track the historicalchanges in how the ritual is practised and understood in India. In addition to an analysis based on a closelydetailed study, change over long periods of time and across the boundaries of religious cultures is examinedby analysing the ritual structure of the Visperad in the Indo-Iranian diachronic perspective.The Visperad provides the ideal case study because live performances can still be witnessed in India, and onlythere. Our overall aim is to contribute to a deeper understanding and appreciation of this archaic, living, butcritically endangered human heritage, originating in the prehistoric oral culture of the Indo-Iranians. AVINDIAdevelops a descriptive and analytical technique for Zoroastrian ritual action that is both systematic and detailed,and is useful to researchers in ritual studies and beyond. It is a contribution to the ongoing attempt by scholarsto pursue the analogy between linguistic grammars and non-linguistic grammar-like, structured systems suchas music, dance, and ritual. This interdisciplinary project crosses the boundaries between ethnographic filmstudies, ritual studies, digital humanities and philology, and opens up research programmes for scholarsworking in ethnology, anthropology, linguistics, history, sociology, religious studies, and performance studies.