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Like masks, each wunkirmian is given its own name. The most common form of the wunkirmian has a handle carved as a human head that displays the characteristic of the buangle mask: narrow eyes and an oval face. The face on the ladle depicts a specific woman.
Epa masks consist of a Janus faced helmet and an often elaborate figurative superstructure usually carved with a female or equestrian figure at its center. Surrounding the central figure are typically smaller figures, representing traders, musicians, hunters and other personages central to Yoruba community life.
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.
The ancient Roman god Janus was two-faced, literally - with one looking forward and another backward, representing transitions and duality. Scientists have observed a white dwarf star - a hot ...
Janus Films, a film distribution company founded in 1956, takes its name from the god and features a two-faced Janus as its logo. [269] The Janus Society was an early homophile organization founded in 1962 and based in Philadelphia.
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'. [1]
In the Moebius/Jodorowski graphic novel series The Incal, a major character is a "perfect androgynous" called Solune (Sunmoon in the English translation). The rebis is featured in the cover artwork for Mastodon's second EP, Lifesblood. The rebis can also be a Janus/Jana John/Jane as the character of Predestination movie. Yubel of Yu-Gi-Oh!
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 ...