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During the Hittite New Kingdom, Luwian replaced Hittite as the empire's dominant language. In the early Iron Age, a number of Luwian-speaking Neo-Hittite states arose in northern Syria. The Luwians are known largely from their language, and it is unclear to what extent they formed a unified cultural or political group.
The toponym Istanuwa is named only in the Luwian ritual texts known as the Songs of Istanuwa and the Songs of the Men of Lallupiya. [1] Woudhuizen regarded it as an Arzawan word that originated before "the infiltration of Thracian and Phrygian population groups" [2] ultimately derived from the Indo-Iranian root istan ("land") and the foreign ethnic designation nuwā-um ("Luwian"). [3]
Luwian Studies is an independent, private, non-profit foundation based in Zürich, Switzerland. Its sole purpose is to promote the study of cultures of the second millennium BC in western Asia Minor .
Luwian religion was the religious and mythological beliefs and practices of the Luwians, an Indo-European people of Asia Minor, which is detectable from the Bronze Age until the early Roman Empire. It was strongly affected by foreign influence in all periods and it is not possible to clearly separate it from neighbouring cultures, particularly ...
[10] [38] Manfred Hutter assumes the information about her character provided by Hittite text can be assumed to apply to her in Luwian context as well. [10] While according to Piotr Taracha it is incorrect to assume a single Luwian pantheon existed, some deities, including her, as well as the likes of Kamrušepa , Tarhunt , Tiwad , Arma ...
A Luwian innovation is the idea of the weather god of the vineyard. [21] He is first attested in a southern Anatolian vineyard ritual from the 16th century BC, in which he is called upon to make the royal vineyard thrive, along with the goddess Mamma and other divine couples, like Runtiya and Ala or Telipinu and Maliya .
Wasusarmas (Hieroglyphic Luwian: 𔓬𔖢𔑙𔒅𔗔 , romanized: Wassu-Sarrumas [5] [3] [6] [7]) was a Luwian king of the Syro-Hittite kingdom of Tabal proper in the broader Tabalian region who reigned during the mid-8th century BC, from around c. 740 BC to c. 730 BC. [11] [10] Name and title of Wasusarma (top line from the right)
Ḫuwaššanna was considered a daughter of the male Hittite solar deity, Ištanu, [7] who like her was one of the primary members of the pantheon of Ḫupišna. [9] Nothing is otherwise known about her family. [10] The goddess Anna, originally the main deity of Kanesh, was worshiped alongside Ḫuwaššanna in Ḫupišna. [11]