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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 ...
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.
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 .
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.
Janus-faced molecule, used to describe a molecule whose effects on organisms can vary between beneficial and toxic Janus Experiments , a series of experiments on radio-sensitivity in mice and dogs Janus kinase , an intracellular signalling molecule; component of the JAK-STAT signal system
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 ...
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 term Janus-faced molecule is derived from the ancient Roman god, Janus. Janus is depicted as having two faces; one facing the past and one facing the future. [1] This is synonymous to a Janus molecule having two distinct purposes: a beneficial and a toxic purpose depending on its quantity.