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This article is about the ancient Egyptian dog-headed ape. For the Tamil month, see Tamil calendar.
In Ancient Egyptian religion, Aani is the dog-headed ape sacred to the Egyptian god Thoth.[1] "One of the Egyptian names of the Cynocephalus Baboon, which was sacred to the god Thoth."[2]
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- ^ 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.
- ^ William Ricketts Cooper, An Archaic Dictionary: Biographical, Historical, and Mythological, 1876
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