The uniqueness of Janus in Latium has suggested to L. Adams Holland and J. Gagé the hypothesis of a cult brought from far away by sailors and strictly linked to the amphibious life of the primitive communities living on the banks of the Tiber.

A. Audin connects the figure of Janus to Culsans and Turms ( Etruscan rendering of Hermes, the Greek god mediator between the different worlds, brought by the Etruscan from the Aegean Sea ), considering these last two Etruscan deities as one.

They explain how The Tyrant has captured all of the servers in the Galaxy except for the one that Sirius and his companion Janus brought to Earth and disguised as the computer.

Holiday is brought by his colleague and mentor Sydney Hewitt ( Nicky Henson ) to meet with the CEO of Connex Oil, Leland " Lee " Janus ( Peter Gerety ).

This transformation is brought about, not by experimentation with chemicals as in Stevenson's original, but through the supernatural agency of a bust of Janus ( the Roman god of the doorway ), which Warren / O ' Connor purchases in the opening sequence as a gift for his sweetheart, Jane Lanyon ( Margarete Schlegel ).

" Moreover, according to Krappe, Balor is related to Janus, Kronos, the Serbian monster " Vy ," the Welsh Ysbaddaden Pennkawr, and other versions of a two-headed god with an evil eye.

Numa in his regulation of the Roman calendar called the first month Januarius after Janus, according to tradition considered the highest divinity at the time.

The four-sided structure known as the Arch of Janus in the Forum Transitorium dates from the 1st century CE: according to common opinion it was built by the Emperor Domitian.

Plutarch writes that according to some Janus was a Greek from Perrhebia.

His mother, Helvis of Brunswick-Grubenhagen gave him the name Janus which was the name of the god who founded Genoa, according to a mythological tradition.

The administrator of Famagusta, the Genoese Antonio de Karko, according to writings of Amati was the Janus ' godfather.

At the same time, there was a tradition that Saturn had been an immigrant god, received by Janus after he was usurped by his son Jupiter ( Zeus ) and expelled from Greece.

Grimassi's tradition centers around a duotheistic pair of deities that are regarded as divine lovers, and they may go by many different names, including: Uni and Tagni, Tana and Tanus, Diana and Dianus, Jana and Janus, and more.

January ( in Latin, Ianuarius ) is named after Janus, the god of the doorway ; the name has its beginnings in Roman mythology, coming from the Latin word for door ( ianua ) since January is the door to the year.

* Janus of Cyprus, king of Cyprus from 1398 to 1432

*" Janus ", a song from the album Out and About with the Gone Jackals by hard rock group The Gone Jackals

*" Janus ", a song from the album Inner Journeys: Myth + Legends by Cusco

* Janus, a French poetry magazine published in Paris by Elliott Stein from 1950 to 1961

The name is taken from the two-faced Roman god of doorways, Janus, because the JAKs possess two near-identical phosphate-transferring domains.

JAKs range from 120-140 kDa in size and have seven defined regions of homology called Janus homology domains 1 to 7 ( JH1-7 ).

Kazaa and FastTrack were originally created and developed by Estonian programmers from BlueMoon Interactive and sold to Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis ( who were later to create Skype and later still Joost and Rdio ).

The pre-1948 B-pictures from Pine-Thomas Productions were also sold off to TV syndicators before the MCA deal, as was Paramount's Bulldog Drummond series, the latter of which is now owned by Janus Films.

Dumézil theorizes that these myths of Fenrir / Víðarr and Bali / Vishnu may have a common origin in an Indo-European God of spatiality, similar but distinct from the hypothetical framing or entry / exit God that spawned Janus and Heimdall.

Leo called Janus Lascaris to Rome to give instruction in Greek, and established a Greek printing-press from which the first Greek book printed at Rome appeared in 1515.

After selling it to Niklas Zennström from Sweden and Janus Friis from Denmark, it was introduced in March 2001 by their Dutch company Consumer Empowerment.

This double relationship would serve Charles well, as in 1485, when he was 17, she surrendered her rights in Cyprus, Armenia, and Jerusalem to young Charles, her next legitimate heir in line from King Janus of Cyprus and Armenia.

The first four deal with the mythical history of Genoa from the time of its founder, Janus, called the first king of Italy, and its enlarger, a second Janus " citizen of Troy ", till its conversion to Christianity " about twenty-five years after the passion of Christ.

Janus frequently symbolized change and transitions such as the progress of future to past, from one condition to another, from one vision to another, and young people's growth to adulthood.

Macrobius gives the same interpretation of the epithet in his list: " Consivius from sowing ( conserendo ), i. e. from the propagation of the human race, that is disseminated by the working of Janus.

Renard concludes that the rite is under the tutelage of both Janus and Juno, being a rite of transition under the patronage of Janus and of desacralisation and fertility under that of Juno: through it the iuvenes coming back from campaign were restituted to their fertile condition of husbands and peasants.

Etruscan medals from Volterra too show the double headed god and the Janus Quadrifrons from Falerii may have an Etruscan origin.

Among the reasons given by those who oppose the use of Common Era notation is that it is selective as other aspects of the Western calendar have origins in various belief systems ( e. g., January is named for Janus ), Style guides for academic texts on religion generally prefer BCE / CE to BC / AD.

Nevertheless, Augustus closed the Gates of Janus ( the Roman ceremony to mark world Peace ) three times, first in 29 BC and again in 25 BC.

The flamen of Portunus performed the ritual greasing of the spear of the god Quirinus on August 17, day of the Portunalia, on the same date that the temple of Janus in the Forum Holitorium had been consecrated ( by consul Caius Duilius in 260 BC ).

This proves the Greek of the V century BC did know the image of Janus.

He compiled, chiefly from Livy, a brief sketch of the history of Rome from the foundation of the city to the closing of the temple of Janus by Augustus ( 25 BC ).

225-212 BC ), with a laureate head of Janus or the twinned Dioscuri, and Victoria ( mythology ) | Victory driving a quadriga ( four-horse chariot )

The two earliest were built during the First Punic War, the first a Temple of Janus vowed by Gaius Duilius following his victory in a naval battle at Mylae with the Carthaginians in 260 BC.

The northernmost temple is next in size and also Ionic, and is generally assumed to be the temple of Janus which is mentioned in the written sources, and is usually dated to about 90 BC.

The first Roman campaign against the Astures ( the Bellum Asturicum ), which commenced in the spring of 26 BC, was successfully concluded in 25 BC with the ceremonial surrender of Mons Medullus to Augustus in person, allowing the latter to return to Rome and close ostentatiously the gates of the temple of Janus that same year.

* Janus ( simulation ), a military combat simulation first developed in the late 1970s by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Combat Simulation Laboratory

* Zündapp Janus, a bubble car model by Zündapp

* HMS Janus, a name used by British naval ships

* Janus Recognition Toolkit ( JRTk ), a general purpose speech recognition toolkit developed and maintained by the Interactive Systems Laboratories at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

* Janus ( TV series ), A television series created by the Australian Broadcasting Commission with two story lines: the criminal family being prosecuted and the police / judicial process

* Janus: A Summing Up, a book by Arthur Koestler

* Janus, a short story by Ann Beattie

The A Ring's outer edge is maintained by a destabilizing 7: 6 resonance with the moon Janus.

" Along that same thought, Arthur Koestler stated, " it is the synergistic effects produced by wholes that are the very cause of the evolution of complexity in nature " and used the metaphor of Janus ( a symbol of the unity underlying complements like open / shut, peace / war ) to illustrate how the two perspectives ( strong or holistic vs. weak or reductionistic ) should be treated as perspectives, not exclusives, and should work together to address the issues of emergence.

The dates of his festivals support the same conclusion: they fall on January 1, March 7 and May 21, the first date being the recurrence of the Agonalia ( dedicated to Janus and celebrated by the king with the sacrifice of a ram ).

This festival, however, marked the end of the year and was linked to time more directly than to space ( as attested by Augustine's apologia on the role of Janus with respect to endings ).

However, now it is known that the outer edge of the ring is instead maintained by a 7: 6 orbital resonance with the larger but more distant moons Janus and Epimetheus.

** Perfect Dark: Janus ' Tears by Eric Trautmann ( 2007 )

* 1971-Rock Around the Country ( Sonet 623 ); issued in North America by GNP-Crescendo ( LP 2097 ) and as Travelin ' Band on Janus ( JLS 3035 )

** The above two albums have been reissued in many forms, including by Janus Records as the two-album set, Razzle-Dazzle ( Janus 7003 ), a numerous releases on the Pickwick and Hallmark labels.

In the schema presented by Martianus Capella, the Ianitores terrestres are placed in region 16 among deities of the lowest ranks, while Janus, the divine doorkeeper par excellence, is placed in region 1.

In the Fasti of Ovid, the nymph Cranaë is raped by Janus, a god otherwise portrayed by the poet as avuncular and wise.