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Philippe Swennen

Introduction

Joanna Jurewicz

The God who fights with the Snake and Agni

• Introduction
• 1. Connection of the Snake with tree
• 2. Connection of the Snake with stone
• 3. Connection of the Snake with water
• 4. Connection of the Snake with horns and cattle
• 5. Solar-rain cycle
• 6. Conceptual affinities between the concept of the Snake and the God and the concepts of Agni and Prajāpati in the ŚB
• 7. The same features of the Snake and the main hero
• 8. Ambivalence of the God and the Snake
• 9. The myth and the ritual
• 10. Conclusion

Toshifumi Gotō

Bergung des gesunkenen Sonnenlichts im Rigveda und Avesta

• 1. Aśvins und Nāsatyas im Rigveda
• 2. Das Wesen des Nā́satya-
• 3. Bergung des gesunkenen Sonnenlichts im Rigveda und Avesta
• 4. Θraētaona- Āϑβiia-:: Tritá- Āptiyá-:: Nā́satya-
• 5. „Liturgie“ im Rigveda und Avesta
• 6. Anhänge

Kyoko Amano

What is “Knowledge” Justifying a Ritual Action? Uses of yá evám̐ véda / yá evám̐ vidvā́n in the Maitrāyaṇī Sam̐hitā

• Introduction
• 1. Viewpoint of study about Maitrāyaṇī Sam̐hitā
• 2. yá evám̐ véda / vidvā́n in Maitrāyaṇī Sam̐hitā
• 2.1. Who knows?
• 2.2. What does the knower do?
• 2.3. Are yá evám̐ vidvā́n… and yá evám̐ véda different?
• 3. Uses of yá evám̐ véda / yá evám̐ vidvā́n
• 3.1. Contents of knowledge
• 1) Myth
• 2) General statement
• 3) R̥ṣi’s talk or act
• 3.2. Volume of knowledge
• 3.3. Construction of logic
• 3.4. Spread and formalization of knowledge indicated by yá evám̐ véda / vidvā́n
• 3.5. Use of sentence particles: ha vái and tád
• 4. Distribution of the uses of yá evám̐ véda / vidvā́n in MS
• 4.1. Appearances of yá evám̐ véda / vidvā́n in MS
• 4.2. ha vái and tád
• 4.3. yá evám̐ véda or yá evám̐ vidvā́n
• 4.4. Action following yá evám̐ vidvā́n
• 4.5. Contents of knowledge
• 4.6. Emphasis of the connection between myth and present ritual
• 4.7. Volume of knowledge
• 4.8. Construction of logic
• 4.9. Spread and formalization of yá evám̐ véda / vidvā́n
• 5. Features of each chapter and relationship among the chapters
• 6. yá evám̐ véda / vidvā́n in Kāṭhaka-Sam̐hitā and Taittirīya-Sam̐hitā
• 7. Further challenge of the study

Naoko Nishimura

On the first mantra section of the Yajurveda-Sam̐hitā: Preparation for milking, or grazing of cows?

• Introduction
• 1. The mantras of the first chapter in the Yajurveda-Sam̐hitās (ca. 1000 BC)
• 2. prá-ar (causative) “make one move out [to the meadow]”
• 3. Sacrificial deed “to prepare for offering material”
• 4. Entrustment of cows to the atmosphere and prayer for security of them
• 5. Conclusive remarks and remaining items to be investigated further
• 5.1. Boundary between the chapter for grazing and that of milking in KapS and VSK
• 5.2. saṃgavá-
• 6. Synopsis of the first mantra chapter “Grazing of cows” in the YS.

Philippe Swennen

Archéologie d’un mantra védique

Éric Pirart

L’idée d’hospitalité

Antonio Panaino

aētā̊sә.tē ātarә zaoϑrā̊. On the Mazdean Animal and Symbolic Sacrifices: Their Problems, Timing and Restrictions

• 1. Preface: Methodological and Terminological Problems
• 2. Old and New Reflections on the Sacrifice
• 2.1. The Forms of the Animal Sacrifice
• 2.2. The Costs of the Animal Sacrifice
• 2.3. The Risks of the Nocturnal Ceremonies
• 2.4. The Ritual Sessions and the Problem of the Liminal Phases
• 2.5. The Parts of the Night and the beginning of Ušahina
• 2.6. Unspecified Nocturnal Sacrifices in general and in the aiβisrūϑrima-aibigaiia- gāh
• 2.7. Vedic Comparative Data about Nocturnal Sacrifices and Ambiguous Mazdean Ceremonies
• 3. Post-Nocturnal Auroral Sacrifices in the ušahina- gāh and the Vidēvdād’s Timing
• 3.1. The Evidence of Nērangestān 28, 1–6
• 3.2. The liminary position of the Vidēvdād ceremony
• 3.3. The Meaning of the Double Recitation of the Yasna Haptaŋhāiti: A Working Hypothesis
• 3.4. The Change of Priest and the role of the pasuuāzah-
• 4. The Auroral Sacrifice in its Cosmological Meaning
• 5. Conclusive Remarks

Jean Kellens

ahu, mainiiu, ratu

• 1. L’opposition « osseux »/ « mental » et la délimitation du problème
• 2. Au bout de la spirale : l’ahu devenu « parfait » (fraša)
• 3. Spécificité des épithètes dans la GA et dans la GU
• 4. Le processus de la GA
• 5. Le processus de la GU
• 6. Essai d’interprétation
• 7. ahu- et ratu-

Eijirō Dōyama

Reflections on YH 40.1 from the Perspective of Indo-Iranian Culture

• Introduction
• 1. Grammatical analysis of mazdąmcā būⁱricā kәr^әšuuā
• 1.1. Sentence structure
• 1.2. mazdąmcā būⁱricā kәr^әšuuā
• 2. Narten’s “second possibility”
• 3. Indo-Iranian perspective: strengthening the gods and give-and-take relationship
• 4. Revised understanding of mazdąmcā būⁱricā kәr^әšuuā
• 4.1. mazdąmcā… kәr^әšuuā
• 4.2. būⁱricā
• 5. ahmat̰ hiiat̰ aⁱbī
• 6. Conclusion: understanding of the whole stanza
• A. Excursus: the god’s name mazdā- revisited
• A.1. Morphology
• A.2. Word order of mazdā- and ahura-
• A.3. YH 40.1, Y 33.11, and beyond

Alberto Cantera

Litanies and rituals. The structure and position of the Long Liturgy within the Zoroastrian ritual system

• 1. The unitary nature of the LL
• 2. The Avestan ritual system
• 2.1. Greater and lesser performance
• 2.2. Yasna-centric model vs ritual system: the ritual blocks
• 2.3. “Standardised” and “multiple” litanies
• 2.3.1. The performative verbs of the “multiple litanies”
• 2.3.2. The items included in the “standardised litanies”
• 2.3.3. The performative section at the end of the “multiple litanies”
• 2.3.4. A classification of the Avestan rituals according to their use of the litanies
• 3. Litanies in prose and metric texts in the Avestan rituals intergrated in a ritual cluster
• 4. The combination of a “multiple litany” and an additional text in the LL
• 4.1. The Srōš Drōn and Hōm Stūt
• 4.2. The Hōmāst
• 4.3. The Drōn ī Ātaxš and the Ātaxš Niyāyišn
• 4.4. The Āb-zōhr and the libations to the barәsman
• 4.4.1. The Drōn ī Ābān
• 4.4.2. Āb-zōhr and libations to the barәsman in the LL
• 4.4.2.1. The libations to the barәsman
• 4.4.2.2. The libations to the waters
• 5. The structure of the LL
• 5.1. The concentric, symmetrical, or linear arrangement of the LL
• 5.2. The threefold structure of the LL
• 5.3. The three sections of the LL
• 5.3.1. The installation of the priest (s)
• 5.3.2. The Hōmāst plus the Staōta Yesńiia
• 5.3.3. The fire and water ceremonies
• 5.4. Sections not involved in the threefold structure: the enjambments
• 5.4.1. Srōš Yašts, Fšūšō Mąϑra and Y59
• 5.4.2. Y69–70
• 6. Final remarks

Céline Redard

Les Āfrīnagāns : une diversité rituelle étonnante

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Le terme Āfrīnagān
• 3. Description générale d’une cérémonie Āfrīnagān
• 4. Éditions vs manuscrits (et Modi) : une diversité étonnante
• 4.1. Manuscrits utilisés
• 4.1.1. Les manuscrits indiens liturgiques
• 4.1.2. Les manuscrits iraniens liturgiques
• 4.2. Structure des Āfrīnagāns
• 4.3. Description des Āfrīnagāns
• 5.1. Āfrīnagān Mino Nāwar
• 5.2. Les Āfrīnagāns à Sraōša
• 6. Conclusion

Götz König

Daēnā and Xratu. Some considerations on Alberto Cantera’s essay Talking with god

• 1. Rituality and the history of ritualism
• 2. The problems
• 3. Alberto Cantera’s Talking with God
• 4. Reconstruction of the main points of Talking with God
• 4.1. Age of the liturgical structure
• 4.2. The intertextual conception of the Intercalation Ceremonies
• 4.3. Semantics of the Staota Yesniia
• 4.4. The point of culmination in the Staota Yesniia: daēnā
• 5. The ritual circle
• 6. Problems in Talking with God
• 7. The dāenā question
• 8. A modification of the daēnā theory
• 9. The so-called daēnā-section of the Gāϑās
• 10. The xratu question

Juanjo Ferrer-Losilla

Les alphabets avestiques et leur récitation dans les rituels zoroastriens : innovation ou archaïsme ?

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Les différents ordres alphabétiques et leur importance pour l’histoire de la création de l’alphabet avestique et la paléographie
• 3. La séquence rituelle : innovation ou archaïsme ?
• 4. Conclusion

Miguel Ángel Andrés-Toledo

Socio-religious Division in the Indo-Iranian Investiture with the Sacred Girdle

Hamid Moein

Some remarks about the Zoroastrian ceremony of cutting a new kusti according to two Persian Rivāyat manuscripts and two of the oldest Avestan manuscripts

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• Avestique
• Grec
• Moyen perse (comprenant la TP de l’Avesta)
• Pāli
• Sanskrit
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