here are many holidays we celebrate across the world and especially here
in America that very few people truly understand. Today, January 1st is
one of those holidays many people think is just about partying and
bringing in the New Year with some new resolutions that they never keep.
But in reality, this day has a deeper meaning you are probably unaware
of.
The name of the month January is derived from the two-faced
god with the Latin name of Janus. The reason he has two faces is because
one face looks back into the past, and the other face forward to the
future. This is essentially what happens right at New Years Eve when you
countdown to midnight which is the ending of one year and the beginning
of a brand new year filled with new hopes and dreams. A time to put an
end to the past year which is now old and begin fresh with a new year.
To
the ancient pagans and Greeks, he was their custodian of the key to the
Temple of Wisdom. Plutarch had written; -For this Janus, in the most
remote antiquity, whether a demi-god or a king, being remarkable for his
political abilities, and his cultivation of society, reclaimed men from
their rude and savage manners; he is therefore represented with two
faces, as having altered the former state of the world, and given quite a
new turn to life.-
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