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Janus-faced heads on a staff are reported to be carried by certain masked performers. The two faces looking in opposite directions symbolize the supernatural ability of the gle to see in all directions. [3] Like feast ladles, these heads are considered powerful spiritual objects that act as receptacles for du. Some are created as portraits of ...
Frank and Louie, sometimes referred to as Frankenlouie [1] (September 8, 1999 – December 4, 2014), was a diprosopus (also known as "janus" or "two-faced") cat known for his unusual longevity. He was named by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest surviving janus cat in 2012.
Numa built the Ianus geminus (also Janus Bifrons, Janus Quirinus or Portae Belli), a passage ritually opened at times of war, and shut again when Roman arms rested. [54] It formed a walled enclosure with gates at each end, situated between the old Roman Forum and that of Julius Caesar, which had been consecrated by Numa Pompilius himself.
The Janus branch of the Cahill family in The 39 Clues; Janus word or auto-antonym, a word with multiple meanings in which one is the reverse of another; Janus, a French poetry magazine published in Paris by Elliott Stein from 1950 to 1961; Janus (1971-2007), a British fetish magazine of erotic spanking and caning imagery.
Its title alludes to the two faces of the Roman god Janus, after whom the month of January was named. Biographer Andrew Wilson, in his 2003 publication Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith claims the title is 'appropriate for the janus-faced, flux-like nature of her protagonists'.
The Faces of Janus is a book by A. James Gregor, a eugenicist and political scientist with a focus on fascism, published in 2000 by Yale University Press.In it, he argues that there are fundamental errors in Marxist analyses of fascism and that the political spectrum identifying the Left as progressive and the Right as reactionary was (in the words of Franklin Hugh Adler) a dishonest way of ...
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A Spanish observer at the wedding of Mary I of England and Philip of Spain in 1554 mentioned that women in London wore masks, antifaces, or veils when walking outside. [5] [6] Masks became more common in England in the 1570s, leading Emanuel van Meteren to write that "ladies of distinction have lately learned to cover their faces with silken masks and vizards and feathers".