The Two-Headed God Janus of Rome

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Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in the movie The Tourist (2010) speaking of The Two-Head God Janus of Rome and how "...People have two sides a good side, a bad side, a past a future and that we must embrace both in someone we love..." In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Janus is the god of beginnings and transitions, thence also of gates, doors, doorways, endings and time. Most often he is depicted as having two heads, facing opposite directions: one head looks eastward and the other westward. Symbolically they look simultaneously into the future and the past, back at the last year and forward at the new. The Romans also considered Janus as the God of Beginnings and his name was an obvious choice for the first month of their year...a month referred to by the Ancient Romans as Ianuarius, which is not so far removed from the modern-day "January."

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  • 1:24 of BULLSHIT... a waste of time

    ANCIENTS0UL 2 months ago

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