Janus Coin
By Inlemay
@Inlemay (17712)
South Africa
August 31, 2020 6:56am CST
I Love movies - while watching a few of the oldies during lockdown - 'The Tourist' had the most profound quote which totally jumped out at me:
Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp were discussing the coin on her chain that her mother gave to her:
“…people have two sides; a good side, a bad side; a past, a future and that we must embrace both in someone we love…”
Words of great wisdom from a mother to a daughter.
Because I am me and I love all Mythology, I researched more about this god:
In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Janus is the god of beginnings and transitions. 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, quite appropriate for NEW beginnings.
Can you relate?
Image is from google
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
31 Aug 20
I remember very well our mythology classes. Janus Bifrons, the God who presided over the beginning and ending of conflict, and hence war and peace. The gates of a building in Rome named after him (it's not a Temple) were opened in time of war, and closed to mark the arrival of peace.
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?@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
31 Aug 20
@topffer It is an "enclosure" not a real temple, a passage covered by an arch with a gate.Wikipedia is never really good, practical but not very good.
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