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This lack of clarity by the Romans themselves demonstrates the fluctuating nature of their mythos-history. However, a Roman viewed the Temple of Janus's gates as having them shut was a time of celebration and of pride for the rulers of Rome. As demonstrated by Caesar Augustus's accounts of shutting the doors three times. [9]
A liminal deity is a god or goddess in mythology who presides over thresholds, gates, or doorways; "a crosser of boundaries". [1] These gods are believed to oversee a state of transition of some kind; such as, the old to the new, the unconscious to the conscious state, the familiar to the unknown.
And third, Janus is the Roman god of war—the war we fight against stereotypes commonly held against us. In the 1987 thriller novel The Janus Man by British novelist Raymond Harold Sawkins , Janus is used as a metaphor for a Soviet agent infiltrated into British Secret Intelligence Service – "The Janus Man who faces both East and West".
Grannus was a healing spring god, later equated with Apollo. [55] [56] [57] Apollo Maponus. A god known from inscriptions in Britain. This may be a local fusion of Apollo and Maponus. Apollo Moritasgus ("masses of sea water"). [clarification needed] An epithet for Apollo at Alesia, where he was worshipped as the god of healing and, possibly, of ...
Portunus, god of keys, doors, and livestock, he was assigned a flamen minor. Postverta or Prorsa Postverta, goddess of childbirth and the past, one of the two Carmentes (other being Porrima). Priapus, phallic guardian of gardens, originally Greek. Proserpina, Queen of the Dead and a grain-goddess, the Roman equivalent of the Greek Persephone.
The Holy Door being opened at a Roman prison, though, has not been done before. Fact Check: Social media users are claiming that Pope Francis is opening five “sacred portals” in a ritual that ...
On the temple's doors, a scene depicting the killing of the children of Niobe by Apollo and Diana was rendered in ivory, [98] while the other door depicted the defeat of the Celtic attack on the Oracle of Delphi, of which Apollo was the patron god, in 281 BCE. [7]
Another popular theory held that the maxims were first spoken by the Delphic oracle, and therefore represented the wisdom of the god Apollo. [10] Clearchus of Soli , among others, attempted to reconcile the two accounts by claiming that Chilon, enquiring of the oracle what was best to be learnt, received the answer "Know thyself", and ...