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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 2,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (thunder and lightning): Text and notes — Cambridge, 1925

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The god under the Arch 365

of iamis1 and as such represented that primitive sanctity, the animate
Sky2. Ianus the celestial roof was, in fact, fitly embodied in the
Tigillum and as yet required no other effigy. His association with
Iuno suggests that he here played the part of Iupiter. Augustine,
after insisting that Ianus and Iupiter are but diverse forms of the
same deity3, remarks that Iupiter was named Tigillus ' because,
like a Beam, he kept the world together and supported it4.'

(£) The god under the Arch.

When Ianus passed from the zoistic5 to the anthropomorphic
stage, he was represented as a double-faced deity standing beneath

the arch that had been his former self. Such was the bronze statue
five cubits high, which looked east and west in the ianus Geminus of

1 O. Gilbert Geschichte und Topographic der Stadt Rom im Alter turn Leipzig 1883—
1885 i. 180 ff., ii. 61, O. Richter in Baumeister Denkm. iii. 1528, id. Topographie der
Stadt Rom* Miinchen 1901 p. 311, W. H. Roscher in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 21, and
Wissowa Rel. Knit. Rom.2 p. 104 all rightly regard this trixylon as a ianus. W. F. Otto
' Rdmische Sondergotter' in the Rhein. Mus. 1909 lxiv. 466 f. denies it. Cp. Cat. 67.
37 ff. ianua...suffixa tigillo.

2 Supra p. 354 ff. B Supra p. 328 n. 6.

4 Aug. de civ. Dei 7. 11 dixerunt eum (sc. Iovem)...Tigillum...quod tamquam tigillus
mundum contineret ac sustineret... puto inter se propinquiora esse causas rerum atque
primordia, propter quas res unum mundum duos deos esse voluerunt, Iovem atque Ianum,
quam continere mundum et mammam dare animalibus ; nec tamen propter haec opera duo
tam longe inter se vi et dignitate diversa duo dii esse compulsi sunt; sed unus Iuppiter
propter illud Tigillus, propter hoc Ruminus appellatus est.

In Folk-Lore 1905 xvi. 279 n. 6 I mistakenly inferred from this passage that Iupiter
Tigillus owed his appellation to some reminiscence of the world-tree. I now hold that
he was the Latin equivalent of an earlier Ianus, whose beam was horizontal, not vertical.
E. Pais Ancient Legends of Roman History trans. M. E. Cosenza London 1906 p. 156
speaks of ' ceremonies in honor of Jupiter Tigillus and Juno Sororia.' But the phrase
oversteps our data. L A. Hartung Die Religion der Ro'mer Erlangen [836 ii. 43 was
content to say: ' Zuerst richtet er ein Joch auf, sororium tigillum genannt, mit Ein-
willigung, wie es scheint, des Jupiter Tigillus.'' And even that is more than we really
know.

5 Supra i. 27 n. 4.
 
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