quarta-feira, agosto 13, 2014
Roubado-adicionado
In Roman religion, Janus was the deity who presided over doors,
gates, archways, and all beginnings, structural and temporal (the month of
January is named for him).
He is represented as having a single head with two
faces looking in opposite directions. The shrine of Janus in the Roman Forum
was a rectangular bronze structure with double doors at each end.
Traditionally, the doors were left open in times of war and kept closed in
times of peace.
That open/closed dichotomy, along with the deity's two-faced
head, confers duplicity and contrariness to the word "Janus," evinced
in the meaning of the term "Janus-faced."
