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In Ancient Egyptian religion, Aani is the dog-headed ape sacred to the Egyptian god Thoth.〔''Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable'', repeated in Benet, ''The Reader's Encyclopedia'' (1948) and in Gertrude Jobes. ''Dictionary of Mythology, Folklore, and Stymbols'', Part 1. New York:The Scarecrow Press, 1962.〕 "One of the Egyptian names of the Cynocephalus Baboon, which was sacred to the god Thoth."〔William Ricketts Cooper, ''An Archaic Dictionary: Biographical, Historical, and Mythological'', 1876〕 The Egyptian hieroglyphic word for "baboon" is ''jana'' in the German style of transliteration. Attested roughly forty times in extant literature, this word refers to the animal itself.〔Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, ''jana'' “baboon.” Wb 1, 41, 5-6; vgl. FCD 11; LÄ IV, 917. Lemma no. 850186. Uses in Pyramid Texts spells PT 275, 315, 320, 570B, 698B, especially from the Pyramids of Wenis and Pepi. Book of Dead usage occurs in spells BD 5, 75, and 126. Online at Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, http://aaew.bbaw.de/tla/index.html〕 Many Egyptian gods can manifest in a baboon aspect or have other associations with the animal, including * Hapy, a god who protects the canopic jar containing the lungs after embalming.〔Taylor, J., ''Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt'', Univ. of Chicago Press, pp. 65-66.〕 * Khonsu, a god known as “eater of hearts” in the Pyramid Texts.〔Pinch, G., ''Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt'', Oxford, 2002, p. 155.〕 * Thoth, a god of reason and writing: “And so the Baboon of Thoth came into being,” says one 18th Dynasty text.〔"Myth of the Heavenly Cow," line 73. Simpson, W.K., ''The Literature of Ancient Egypt'', Yale Univ. Press, 2003. p. 295〕 Animal iconography does not imply the Egyptians identified the animals concerned as deities themselves. Rather, the animal was an icon, or a large hieroglyph, representing a god.〔Hornung, Erik, ''Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many'', Cornell Univ. Press, 1996, p. 124〕 ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aani」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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