WHAT ROMAN GOD THAT WAS IN CHARGE OF GATES HAD JANURARY NAMED AFTER HIM?
2007-01-04 06:44:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Janus
2007-01-04 06:47:58 · answer #1 · answered by murnip 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Easy - Janus. And it is "January" not "Janurary". Janus was a two-faced god who looked both backwards and forwards. Therefore he started the Julian calendar since he looked back and old year and ahead to the new year. He was a god of protection of gates and doors.
2007-01-04 06:49:50 · answer #2 · answered by harpertara 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Janus. But the Indonesian god of gates is turnstyle. That is why the admonition is true, "man who goes through turnstyle sideways is going to Bangkok." LOL.
2007-01-04 06:55:07 · answer #3 · answered by kellring 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ianus, the oak king. That was also the reason he was a god of doors, because doors were always made of oak, and since he was a sun god of the old variety, who died and was reborn every year, he had two faces, to symbolize the waxing and waning of the power of the sun.
2007-01-04 08:50:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋