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MINOAN GENII AS SUPPORTERS OF YOUNG MALE GOD 465
croup—a certain coalescence with the Nilotic Cult of Mother and Son
undoubtedly took place as a result cf historic causes.
The interaction of the two influences is continually traceable. Where
the tiara occurs on the head either of the Goddess or her youthful consort,
it must evidently be regarded as an Oriental token. But the serpent's head
risino- from that of the faience image of the Minoan Goddess found in the
Temple Repository is clearly reminiscent of the uracils of her Egyptian
sister. So, too, the Genii that reflect the hippopotamus form of Isis might
well protect the Cretan version of the young God.
Fig. 389, a, i, c. Reproduction of Original Figures of Ring
(said to be from Orvieto Tomb) in Ann.4ltdeuJ Instituto,
18S5. The Heads are here made by the Copyist to resemble
those of Bulls, (c. f).
Minoan Genii as Supporters of Young Male God.
Two of these ewer-holding daemons confronting a youthful male figure,
who apparently lays his hands on their forelocks, appear on an agate lentoid
set in a bronze ring, which was one of the earliest known Minoan gems. It
was published in 1885,1 in the misleading form reproduced in Fig. 389,
which is unfortunately its only record, and was said to have been found
1 0. Rossbach, Annali dell' Institute, 1885,
Pl.GH8,andp. 195. The Genii ('esseri misti')
are there described as with lions' heads, and
the male personage is said to seize their ears
(probably the crests of the manes). But—
contrary to this, now well-supported, archaeo-
logical description—the artist of the Plate in
the Annali already provided the monsters with
bulls' heads. Helbig, Question Mycinienne,
P' 32 [325], Fig. 24, gives a bad copy of this
Minoan
Genii
as Mini-
sters of
divinity.
misdrawing. In Prof. A. B. Cook's Animal
Worship in the Mycenaean Age, iii (J. H. S.,
xiv, 1S94, p. 122, Fig. r4) the bulls' heads are
repeated, and the daemon is clearly grasping
their horns. The Genius itself is given the
head of a bird. Furtwangler {A.G., iii, p. 37,
Fig. 167), though partly retaining Rossbach's
description (with a modification of the bird's
head, but a full adoption of the horns), gives
what is otherwise a copy of the /. H. S. figure.
croup—a certain coalescence with the Nilotic Cult of Mother and Son
undoubtedly took place as a result cf historic causes.
The interaction of the two influences is continually traceable. Where
the tiara occurs on the head either of the Goddess or her youthful consort,
it must evidently be regarded as an Oriental token. But the serpent's head
risino- from that of the faience image of the Minoan Goddess found in the
Temple Repository is clearly reminiscent of the uracils of her Egyptian
sister. So, too, the Genii that reflect the hippopotamus form of Isis might
well protect the Cretan version of the young God.
Fig. 389, a, i, c. Reproduction of Original Figures of Ring
(said to be from Orvieto Tomb) in Ann.4ltdeuJ Instituto,
18S5. The Heads are here made by the Copyist to resemble
those of Bulls, (c. f).
Minoan Genii as Supporters of Young Male God.
Two of these ewer-holding daemons confronting a youthful male figure,
who apparently lays his hands on their forelocks, appear on an agate lentoid
set in a bronze ring, which was one of the earliest known Minoan gems. It
was published in 1885,1 in the misleading form reproduced in Fig. 389,
which is unfortunately its only record, and was said to have been found
1 0. Rossbach, Annali dell' Institute, 1885,
Pl.GH8,andp. 195. The Genii ('esseri misti')
are there described as with lions' heads, and
the male personage is said to seize their ears
(probably the crests of the manes). But—
contrary to this, now well-supported, archaeo-
logical description—the artist of the Plate in
the Annali already provided the monsters with
bulls' heads. Helbig, Question Mycinienne,
P' 32 [325], Fig. 24, gives a bad copy of this
Minoan
Genii
as Mini-
sters of
divinity.
misdrawing. In Prof. A. B. Cook's Animal
Worship in the Mycenaean Age, iii (J. H. S.,
xiv, 1S94, p. 122, Fig. r4) the bulls' heads are
repeated, and the daemon is clearly grasping
their horns. The Genius itself is given the
head of a bird. Furtwangler {A.G., iii, p. 37,
Fig. 167), though partly retaining Rossbach's
description (with a modification of the bird's
head, but a full adoption of the horns), gives
what is otherwise a copy of the /. H. S. figure.