No Aryan gods in Hurrian treaty?

[David Salmon]

For the benefit of the uneducated lurking amongst you, myself included  :-(, could you please give us some idea in English what this says?   :-)

David
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bjarte Kaldhol 
  To: INDOLOGY at LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK 
  Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 2:21 PM
  Subject: No Aryan gods in Hurrian treaty?


  Dear listmembers,

  I had barely started reading Annelies Kammenhuber's HIPPOLOGIA HETHITICA
  (1961) when I noticed the following on p. 20:

  "In diesem Vertrag zwischen $uppiluliuma I. und Mattiwaza [now read
  Kurdiwaza, B.K.] von Mitanni aus dem 2. Viertel des 14. Jh.s nehmen
  saemtliche arischen Goetter bereits ziemlich den letzten Platz ein under
  den zur Bestaetigung des Eides angerufenen Goetter... im Gegenvertrag
  Mattiwazas... werden sie ueberhaupt nicht mehr erwaehnt! Das arische
  Pantheon spielte also damals keine grosse Rolle mehr bei den
  Mitanni-Hurritern."

  I have read this carefully about a dozen times, and can only conclude that
  in the treaty which the Hurrian king brought back to his archives, no
  Indo-Aryan gods were mentioned. This is exactly what I would expect, but it
  is not what I have been told.

  Keine grosse Rolle mehr? Warum "mehr"?

  Best wishes,
  Bjarte Kaldhol