vannus

vannus, i (abl. heterocl. vannu, Non. 19, 21), f.,

• a fan, van for winnowing grain, Col. 2, 20, 4; Ap. Met. 11, 10, 26; 11, 16, 28; mystica Iacchi, borne about in the Bacchic festival, Verg. G. 1, 166.

vannus, ī, f. (aus *vetnos zu ventus), die Getreide-, Futterschwinge, Colum. 2, 20, 4. Arnob. 2, 23; vgl. Porphyr. u. Serv. ad Verg. georg. 1, 166: vannorum sirpiarumque vitores, Korbwarenflechter, Arnob. 2, 38. – mystica vannus Iacchi, weil sie bei den eleusinischen Mysterien gebraucht und am Tage der Bacchusfeier mit umhergetragen wurde, Verg. georg. 1, 166 (und dazu Serv.). – ebenso aurea vannus bei der Isisfeier, Apul. met. 11, 10: u. vanni onustae aromatis, ibid. 11, 16. – ➳ Heteroklit. Abl. vannu, Non. 19, 21.

vannus [CL], ~a, winnowing fan or basket (also fig. or in fig. context). b (in gl.) flail. hippotamos ‥ qui oris latitudine ~o comparantur Lib. Monstr. II 17; hec igitur purgans probet, opto, mistica vannus / cum mansura quies jubeleus venerit annus Nig. Paul. f. 49v. 535; si vultis ‥ ~o ac ventilabro justitie a paleis separari et inter grana cum ventilabitur area reperiri Gir. GE II 2 p. 177; ~us ei [sc. Baccho] id est cribrum Cereale, dicata est; quia sicut ~is frumenta, sic ejus mysteriis homines purgantur Alb. Lond. DG 12. 1; Mistica ~us Domini judicio vero, justa ventilacione sibi segregat a zizania frumentum Map NC I 1 f. 7; tritici namque grana contracta sunt hic et minuta, et vix alicujus ~i beneficio purganda Gir. TH I 5; 1299 in ij fannis empt' viij d. (Ac. Blakenham) Doc. Bec 179; 1311 in vino, thure, fanna pro hostiis ‥ in emendacione rote molendini de S. Ac. Durh. 510; c1312 in ‥ j vann' virgarum magna pro ventilacione bladorum (Ac. Templar.) LTR Ac 19 r. 28; 1398 lego Roberto filio meo ‥ omnia vasa plumbia mobilia et immobilia cum uno querne et ij vanis et ij cistis Deeds Balliol 35; nomina domo pertinencia ‥ hic ~us, a fanne WW.  b bainus, þerscel GlH B 25; 10‥ bamus, ðerscel WW.

vannus, (16) ī, f. , van, ustensile à vanner : Col. Rust. 2, 20, 4 ; Virg. G. 1, 166.

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vannus ī, f

• a fan, van, winnow: mystica Iacchi, borne in the festival of Bacchus, V.

VANNUS

VANNUS(λίκνον), a winnowing fan, i. e. a broad basket, into which the corn mixed with chaff was received after threshing, and was then thrown up into the wind so as to disperse the chaff and leave the grain (Col. R. R. 2.21; Verg. G. 3.134). The same process was performed by the (probably) more primitive wooden shovel (πτύον, pala lignea), an implement with a long handle and broad blade, sufficiently like an oar to account for the passage in the Odyssey where the oar is mistaken for the ἀθηρήλοιγος (Od. 11.128; PALA). The expression mystica vannus Iacchi in Verg. G. 1.166shows that the shape of the basket winnowing fan and the Bacchic λίκνον (whence the title Διόνυσος λικνίτης) was the same.

The suggestion of Mr. Andrew Lang (Custom and Myth, p. 36), that the mystica vannus was a magic method of raising the wind, like the whirling of the turbo or rhombus [TURBO], though ingenious and attractive, must, we think, be rejected. The λίκνα μυστικὰ are mentioned by Plutarch (Plut. Alex. 2) as being covered with ivy, and containing serpents which belonged to the cult of Dionysus. It is probable that sometimes a figure of the infant Dionysus was actually placed in it, though the representation in the antefixa engraved above may only indicate that he was regarded as spiritually present in the processions. We see here the infant god carried in a λίκνον or vannus by two figures, a Satyr bearing a thyrsus and a Maenad bearing a torch, both wearing skins [NEBRIS]. Some have wished to trace a symbolism of purification by fire and air [cf. OSCILLA], but we have little doubt that the simpler explanation of the mystic vannus is true. Plutarch speaks of the Awakening of Dionysus (ὅταν αἱ Θυιάδες ἐγείρωσι τὸν Λικνίτην, Is. et Os. 35; cf. ἀμφιετῆ καλέω Βάκχον--ἐγρόμενον κούραις ἅμα νύμφαις εὐπλοκάμοισιν, Orph. Hymn. 53), which belonged to the Delphic winter month Δᾳδοφόριος. The swinging of the basket cradle by the nymphs, who were the nurses of Dionysus, represented the call upon the god of springing vegetation to awake. In winter he is an infant sleeping, as the vegetation sleeps; by spring-time he is to wake and gain his full strength: hence the appropriateness of the corn basket being also the cradle of the god. The idea is illustrated by the German superstition of waking the corn described by Mannhardt (Wald-und Feld-Kulte, 1.534): perhaps also by the corn-baby (see Frazer, Golden Bough, 2.23). The scene on the terra-cotta shows doubtless what the procession of the λικνοφορία at Delphi and elsewhere represented: the λικνοφόροι (Dem. de Cor. p. 313.260) bore a cradle in which was either the infant god himself or his attributes, the sacred serpents, &c. (See further on this subject Lobeck, Aglaoph. 700; Roscher, Lexicon der Gr. und Röm. Myth. pp. 1042 f.; Baumeister, Denkm. p. 850.)

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Vannus

(λίκνον). A large shallow basket used in winnowing. The basket in which the Bacchanals carried the sacrificial vessels and the offerings to Bacchus was styled Vannus Mystĭca (Verg. Georg. i. 166).