Janiu
| Janiu in hieroglyphics | ||||||
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Janiu Jˁnjw The baboons |
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Janiu (also Joniu, Ianiu ) is an ancient Egyptian Pavia God that since the Old Kingdom is occupied.
Representation and relationship with other gods
Iconographic Janiu is in New Kingdom one hand, as a group of four baboons or monkeys shown, which keep in the outstretched paws a human hand; on the other hand as two groups of four baboons with their hands raised.
In the New Kingdom and in the Greco-Roman period Janiu is called the " Bas of the East "; supplementary in the Greco-Roman times as the one " who cheers for the Ka des Hor-Behedeti and those who are in jubilation ".
Mythological connections
Very little is known about the mythological relationship in the Old Kingdom. In that epoch the dead gods feared the baboons, which is why the baboons are involved in fights with Kenmet , who has the ability to kill the baboons; an ability that, conversely, is also attributed to the baboons with regard to the killing of Kenmet.
Janiu has welcomed the sun gods Re and Re-Harachte since the New Kingdom : “ They (the baboons) are those who herald Re in the eastern horizon of heaven. Two are on the left side of the God who made them, two on his right side. They attach its solar disk . They cheer and dance at sunrise . They also announce Re-Harachte in the horizon and cheer ”.
Janiu plays a special role towards the deceased, as they feed on the bowels of the baboons. In Greco-Roman times there is another aspect, since before Hathor in their manifestation as sopdet they “dance in front of their face” after their seventy days absence on their arrival.
See also
literature
- Christian Leitz u. a .: LGG ; Vol 1: AJ (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 110 series) . Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1146-8 , p. 139.