He unlocked the heavy double oak doors of the temple, decorated with gold and ivory, with a key, and in front of the faces of Janus, under the arches, armed soldiers and young men going to war passed, taking up arms for the first time. Throughout the war, the gates of the temple stood open; when peace was concluded, the returning troops again passed in front of the statue of the god and the temple was again locked with a key."

As I said in a previous article, “the triumphal arch is clearly a “female” symbol. It is an image of the female womb.” So there’s a “discrepancy” going on with the god Janus: maybe he’s not a god at all, but a goddess?

Let's start to figure it out...

First of all, it is known for sure that all the doors of private houses, temples of the gods and gates of city walls were under the patronage of Janus. And now we remember the images of Shila-na-gig, which were placed just above the doors of houses, temples, and gates.

An example of a Sheela above a door is Stretton Church in Ireland, 14th century.

Further. The same Wikipedia article states that in fact the two-faced Janus does not consist of two male faces, but only one; his other face is that of a woman. Let us remember that this deity was depicted with two faces facing in opposite directions (towards the past and the future). One of his faces was the face of a young, beardless man looking into the future, the other was the face of a bearded old man, looking into the past. So, the old man is Janus, and the young, beardless man is actually Jana. Janus- this is Apollo, and Diana is Yana, with addition D for euphony.

Finally, the very name of the deity is related to the Latin word janua, which means “door.” “Door” is feminine in all languages, and I think there is no need to explain the symbolic connection of doors with female genital organs - everything is obvious here.

In addition, Janus-Yana existed long before the establishment of the cult of Jupiter. Wikipedia says: “Before the advent of the cult of Jupiter, Janus was the deity of the sky and sunlight, who opened the heavenly gates and released the sun into the sky, and closed these gates at night.” What did we have there before the cult of Jupiter appeared? - That's right, matriarchy with the cult of the Great Goddess.

Scientists suggest that the name Janus used to sound like "Dianus", derived from "dia" - dy-eð2 from the Indo-European root "dey", meaning radiance. In Latin this root is represented by the words dies("day"), Diovis and Iuppiter.

And here we should dwell on this name Diovis ( other-ind. Dyâus, prop. "shining, daytime sky", "day"). From this name came Zeus, Jupiter, and other patriarchal gods. This name is very similar to the word "Deva". We read on Wikipedia: " Deva, or devata(Sanskrit: देव, deva IAST ) - god, divine being in Hinduism. Presumably, the word comes from Proto-Indo-European *deiwos, is an adjective that means "heavenly" or "shining" and is vriddhi from the root *diw "shine". Feminine devi "goddess "(PIE *deiwih 2). Related "Virgo" also Lithuanian dievas, Latvian dievs, Prussian deiwas, Germanic tiwaz and Latin deus ("god") And divus ("divine"), from which the English words are also derived divine, deity, French dieu, Spanish dios, Italian dio, Slavic *divъ.

And here we come to the most interesting thing - the etymological connection between the words “deva” and “maiden”. In my opinion, these words have the same root. Alexander Tulupov in his book " Rod of the North. Russian Hyperboreans" writes: "Perhaps the most direct and simple indicator of the place and role of the “feminine” in the Russian generic consciousness is the Russian “deva” itself, archaic in common with “deva” - the Vedic goddess. But not just any goddess, but a “solar” goddess from the Sanskrit root “div” - “bright, shining”. And someone Sergey Petrov wrote: “Both words come from “to give”; virgin, I’m sorry, gives, and deus, in the sense of god, gives.” Well, yes, the ancient Slavs had Dazhbog (Dazhbog, Old Russian. Dazhbog, church glory. Dazhdbog).

Dazhbog as imagined by a modern artist. Feminine face, long hair, eight-pointed “star of Ishtar” (or “star of the Virgin Mary”) on the chest, arms raised, like female figurines of goddesses.

I also remember the words from the Lord’s Prayer: “ Give us this day our daily bread."

By the way, here is the literal translation of “Our Father” from Aramaic (taken from val000 in "Our Father" translated from Aramaic):

ABOUT, Breathing Life,
Your name shines everywhere!
Make some space
To plant Your presence!
Imagine in your imagination
Your “I can” now!
Clothe Your desire in every light and form!
Sprout bread through us and
An insight for every moment!
Untie the knots of failure that bind us,
Just like we free the ropes,
with which we restrain the misdeeds of others!
Help us not to forget our Source.
But free us from the immaturity of not being in the Present!
Everything comes from You
Vision, Power and Song
From meeting to meeting!
Amen. Let our next actions grow from here.

As you can see, here instead of “Our Father” - “ Breathing Life". Let us remember that the name Eve is translated as " Life". Let us also remember that the Holy Spirit in Hebrew (‏רוח הקדש‎ ‏‎, Ruach hakodesh), in Arabic (روح القدس, Ar-rukh al-quds) and in other Semitic languages ​​( Ruach) — female sort of .

Dmitry Merezhkovsky, in his study “The Unknown Jesus,” writes that in the canonical gospels, at the baptism of Jesus, a voice is heard from heaven: “On this day I gave birth to You.”
And in the native language of Jesus and His Mother, Aramaic, where “Holy Spirit”, Ruach, is feminine: “I gave birth You".
The Heavenly Mother, the Spirit, says so in eternity; the earthly mother, Mary, could have said the same thing in time. Here there is no longer a contradiction between the two Christmases; the sting of temptation is taken out.
“God is Spirit” (John 4:24) cannot but mean in the mouth of Jesus Himself, in Aramaic: God is not only He, the Father, but also She, Mother.
“My Mother is the Holy Spirit,” he will say, remembering what happened immediately after Baptism, Jesus Himself, in the Gospel of the Hebrews, no less Orthodox than our canonical Gospels.

The memory of the Aramaic original was also preserved in Greek by all four witnesses, in our canonical Gospels, where the image of the Spirit is not a “dove”, peristeras, but a “dove”, peristera. At the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River, the Holy Spirit “descended” on Him in the form lovebirds.

Dove of the Holy Spirit in St. Peter's Basilica

The dove was the sacred bird of the goddess Ishtar. In Babylon, the words “dove” and “to be born” sounded similar, and these birds were associated with birth.
The Orthodox have already forgotten this, but heretics still remember.
"Bring down the Holy Spirit, bring down
Holy Blueberry, come down
Mother Hidden!" -
this is the prayer of baptism and the Eucharist in the Acts of Thomas. Gnostic Ophites were also baptized and received communion “in the name of the Mother Spirit.”

Most likely, the same “metamorphosis” occurred with Janus. The closeness of Janus and Juno is very suspicious. She is identified with the Greek goddess Hera, who shows features of the great female deity of the pre-Olympic period. On March 1, festivities were held in her honor - matronalia. It must be said that the ancient Romans celebrated the New Year on March 1st. And only in In 46 BC, Emperor Julius Caesar introduced a new calendar - the one that is still used today, and then the New Year moved to January 1. Therefore, the New Year’s “connection” with January is a rather late thing, the era of imperial Rome, but before everything was not so.

The topic is quite interesting, and perhaps I will return to it. It seems that this is not just a matter of Janus. Most likely, other “male” gods appeared in exactly the same way. First there was a female deity, say Libera. Then a male name was added to it - Liber - and for some time the deity was bisexual: Liber-Libera. And finally, the female name was abolished and only one male name remained.

Obviously, Virgo existed first, then the bisexual deity Dyaus-Deva appeared, and finally only Dyaus remained, and Virgo was demonized (In the Younger Avesta, devas appear as evil spirits, creatures of Angra Mainyu, personifying all sorts of vices and seeking to harm man and other good people creations).

Probably Yahweh infiltrated the matriarchal cult in the same way (

Myths and legends of Ancient Rome Lazarchuk Dina Andreevna

Janus

The origin of the god Janus, who was not worshiped anywhere except Rome, is probably very ancient. In early texts, Janus was called the "god of gods" and the "good creator", which may be an echo of the myth of Janus as the creator of the entire world. In later times, Janus was no longer seen as a demiurge, but as a deity of doors, entrance and exit, but he remained one of the most revered Roman gods.

His name, apparently, comes from the word ianua - “door”, although Cicero associated it with the verb inire - “to advance”, Ovid raised the name “Janus” to “Chaos”, from which he allegedly appeared at the moment of the creation of the world . In ancient times, they say, Janus lived on the site of Rome on the Janiculum Hill.

Since Janus was the god of doors, his temple, built according to legend by Numa Pompilius in the northern part of the Roman forum, was a double arch with a roof and walls. It was a symbolic gate of the Roman state, in the center of which, inside, stood the image of Janus.

The Temple of Janus served as an indicator of war and peace in Rome: when war began, the king or consul unlocked the temple and through these gates, in front of the faces of God, the Roman soldiers going on campaign passed. During the war, the gates remained open and were locked only when peace came throughout the state. Hence, apparently, some connection between Janus and Quirin, the Sabine god of war. At least, according to legend, Numa Pompilius dedicated the temple-gate to the deity Janus Quirinus, which is also what the fecial priests call him in the solemn formula for declaring war.

As the god of entrance, Janus was considered in Rome the patron of all beginnings. The Romans said: “In the hands of Janus is the beginning, in the hands of Jupiter is everything.” When addressing the gods, the name of Janus was first proclaimed. The first month of the twelve-month year, January - januaris, was named in his honor; the New Year holiday itself was dedicated to him - the January Kalends, when a white bull was sacrificed to Janus. Any Kalends, that is, the first day of the month, were also dedicated to Janus, as were the morning hours of each day. Gradually, Janus began to be revered as a deity who controls the movement of the year and time in general. In some of his images, the Roman numeral CCCLXV broken in two is inscribed on the fingers of Janus (on the right CCC, on the left - LXV), that is, 365 - according to the number of days in the year.

In addition, Janus was considered the divine gatekeeper, calling him the Closer and the Opener, since in the morning he opened the heavenly gates and released the sun into the sky, and at night he locked it back. Therefore, Janus is depicted with a key in one hand and a staff in the other.

But the most famous external attribute of Janus is his two-facedness, with Janus's faces looking in opposite directions. This feature was explained by the fact that doors also lead both out and in, and also by the fact that Janus looks simultaneously into the past and into the future.

Despite the fact that Janus was one of the most respected gods by the state, the cult of Janus was not widespread among the people. However, ordinary people also considered Janus the patron saint of roads and travelers, and Roman sailors brought him gifts, because they believed that it was he who taught people how to build the first ships.

Some say that Janus was married to the nymph Juturna, the sister of the Rutulian king Turnus, who had her own source near the Numicia River. Juturna bore him a son, Font, the god of springs.

Dance to the music of time. Artist N. Poussin

They also tell the story of Janus and the nymph Carne, with whom he was in love. Karna avoided the company of men, preferring to hunt animals and birds with darts. Many young men sought her love, and she told the most persistent ones that in the light of the sun she was ashamed to answer their requests, but offered to go into a dark cave, where she promised affection. She herself, instead of following them, hid in the dense bushes.

Karna also answered the lover Janus, but she forgot that Janus has two faces and his back sees where she hid. In the thickets under the very rock, Janus overtook the nymph and, already hugging her, promised in return for her lost virginity to make her the goddess of door hinges and gave her a branch of white thorn, which was used to ward off misfortune from the doors of the house.

Once Karna saved five-day-old Proca, the future king of Alba Longa, from night birds that fed on the blood and entrails of babies. Having sprinkled water on the threshold and donated pork offal to the birds, Karna left a white branch of Janus on the window of the royal house, and the night birds did not touch the baby again. Since then, Karna has been revered as the protector of children and the guardian of human internal organs.