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God who gave his name to the first month
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janus
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ancient Italic deity, guardian god of portals, doors, and gates; patron of beginnings and endings, c.1500, from Latin Ianus , literally "gate, arched passageway," perhaps from PIE root *ei- (1) "to go" (cognates: Sanskrit yanah "path," Old Church Slavonic ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Janus is the two-faced Roman god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings. Janus may also refer to:
Usage examples of janus.
Lady Cytherea performed introductions, presenting Sir Janus as an old friend and neighbor of the Selchurch family.
Her senses told her that she was stationary while Detroit and the rest of South Spindle were turning along with the background of stars, but she knew that in reality it was she and the part of Janus that lay north of the Spin Decoupler that were turning at a little under one revolution every minute.
They created a schematic diagram of Janus, emphasizing the dynamics of the Decoupler, and sent that in as well.
Although the Janus Gate was now lit only by the dimmest of flickers at its heart, Sulu paused to scan the ground again and see if he could find any footprints or tracks in the icy crust.
I distinctly recall noting its ethnocentricity in naming the transporter for the human god Janus rather than the Vulcan goddess Yelanna.
As the temperature climbed, the Janus chamber began to make an entire symphony of sounds: meltwater dripping from a thousand places, then rushing and gurgling its way farther underground, the slow groan and thunderous cracking of ice detaching from the walls.
The entire affair was strung out for no more than a half mile or so along Janus Creek, while the Piegan camp, off in the distance past the Crows, was several times that size.
Westernism and Slavophilism were more than ever the two heads of a single-hearted Janus.
Before they could use the Janus Gate to try to rescue Captain Kirk from his own past, before Sulu and Chekov had even been retrieved from the healing chamber where the Janus Gate had sent them, a horde of metallic insects had plunged down into their midst, using metallic claws with stinging electrical anodes to herd them all to the edge of the cavern.
That puzzled question came from the younger version of Sulu, who, like the older Chekov, had entered the caverns only through the Janus Gate, and exited only through the main entrance above the alien time transporter.
Janus Gate, although part of her still desperately wanted to watch to make sure no other insectoid robots detached themselves from those odd metallic bodies.
It’s already started cannibalizing Janus so we know it’s running short of materials.
For if even then Rome was harassed by wars, and yet did not meet force with force, the same means she then used to quiet her enemies without conquering them in war, or terrifying them with the onset of battle, she might have used always, and have reigned in peace with the gates of Janus shut.
Whoever invented Janus must have forced Jake to admit why he was investigating them," Drew said.
Therefore Vitumnus the life-giver, 253 and Sentinus the sense-giver, 254 ought to have been reckoned among the select gods, rather than Janus the admitter of seed, and Saturn the giver or sewer of seed, and Liber and Libera the movers and liberators of seed.