Janus, the Two-Faced God of January

[@JonathanPageau]

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[@GeneRoy-uj9ir]

Hola Amigo Happy New Year New Era ra ra ra

[@ray_notes8170]

Please do a symbolic read of the Netflix movie "Leave the World Behind" - I guess the Obamas contributed to its making.

[@onenhere6458]

Circumcision is included illness. What some people would call eve-ill. Or that which is veiled. Until learning. Circumcision is the destruction of the veil. Hopes of peering into machinery. Seeing mirrors all the way into turtles. A disfiguration of the self for conspiracy. Practiced in many peoples fearful of trust. It is neither beginning nor end. Yet limiar.

[@ThomasPH123]

The two faces, one looking back and one looking forward, makes perfect sense. What do most people think of in their minds when January comes. They look back to the previous year and contemplate what happened(making judgments about it), while simultaneously looking to the future(with hopefulness of what is to come).

[@antonolandersson5019]

Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?

[@berean9191]

janus also reprinted as twins or as he stated old and new but the same, also speaks to history will repeat itself. A different esoteric meaning.

[@ownagesniper1]

In Slavic countries shaking hands across a doorway is considered very rude. My parents always told me to invite the guest into the house before shaking their hand.

[@AugustasKunc]

I don’t know about rude, it’s just something that shouldn’t be done and is frowned upon here in Lithuania.

[@ownagesniper1]

@Augass Maybe rude isn't the right word but it could be awkward if you reach out for a handshake across a door threshold and the other person doesn't wanna shake your hand immediately.

[@oskarbt1593]

True, same in Lithuania.

[@user-lc5ix6qm5h]

As I was once decoding the Arabic word Jinn it lead me to the word Janus. And I found this very interesting because the ‘jinn’ are typically described as “good and bad” symbolically they are the people who are on the threshold of dark and light. One step can take them to darkness and one can take them to the light. It also lead me to the word “janitor” as janitors are the key holders of gates, buildings etc etc…also jinns are described as “unseen entities” and if we think about it we really ignore janitors to the point we don’t even notice they are there….

[@rosafalls8068]

A genie is also related to genius and Juno. And I have often been a janitor. No one knows we are there until we aren't, which is how we prefer it. No one notices the janitor until they get one that isn't high IQ and working on a master's or doctorate degree, especially, in English Literature, Philosophy, Music, or Archeology. Low IQ janitor means dirt pushed around. No janitor means nothing is clean. Janitors don't only hold the keys to entry, they also hold the keys to genius and often have far more education and intellect than those they clean for. It's a great secret not many know. As far as thresholds, those are the weak spot in a home's construction and also tend to have a spot that's not quite perfect with a strip covering the ugly area where interior and exterior meet. It's a nuisance area that gets high traffic. It's the threshold into a home, not a non residence that tends to be the problem. When you cross that you come under that home's spirit and it can repel someone, or cling on after they leave. When I cleaned homes, I had to quit, because some of the homes of the wealthy are too full of Native American and African art and medicine bundles. These people are totally ignorant of the spirit in these items or why the original owners get rid of them after generations. I became so sick after exposure to these medicine bundles and artifacts, I could barely breath upon entering the homes and it was like going under water. I never believed in haunted houses until one house tried to kick me out, and things flew off the walls at me....that house had a strange chapel with a cross on it in the back yard and claw marks on all the doors. And once, a native of a tribe told me of a home on the reservation was boarded up to keep anyone from going in. They'd locked the old medicine man's bundle inside after he and his family became Christians and they never looked back. They wanted nothing to do with the generational, "gift," which was some sort of ancient pig that could climb the walls and spoke in the old languages. A vampire can't suck your blood unless invited in. And a janitor is a type of genius and exorcist that senses things, and cleans up the bad mojo. Cleanliness is next to Godliness. Someone once told me that, "Gift" means, "poison" in German. Beware of gifts, beware of thresholds and more than crossing them, who crosses yours bearing gifts? Are they naughty or nice?

[@yahudiyah8]

Akan word for mind is Adwene pronuced Ajiyne. Twi word thinking is Adwendwen. pronounced Ajinjiyn. Our oringal language didn't have the letter J

[@oekmama]

@@rosafalls8068 in Norwegian gift means married. In German, the janitor is called the Hausmeister.

[@Zbfromthesouth]

@@rosafalls8068 crazy how you mention home could have a spirit… I wonder why the roofs of most homes look like pyramids

[@rosafalls8068]

@@Zbfromthesouth It's also crazy that snow and rain fall down and that anyone would design shelters or buildings to take nature into account. A pyramid is for the dead. A home is for the living, or should be. A home is a model of a tent, again for the living. A tent is a textile, with a relationship to text. The word moves and travels. Pyramids don't. Mummies are stored in drawers and boxes in museums. What Moses wrote still wanders free, not contained to drawers and place. That's crazy.

[@06rtm]

The difference between categories is always arbitrary at its edge, yet necessary for identity to be distinguished at its core. The difference between 2023 at 11:59 and 2024 at 12:00 is essentially nothing at all. Yet we need to distinguish between periods of time and so the line must be drawn, even if its exact time appears arbitrary. Modern activists want us to notice the apparent arbitrary indifference between categories at their edges and use it to claim category itself is meaningless and ought not exist. It takes something true and exaggerates it to play a trick.

[@melimel2990]

My bday just passed on the 11th. Very interesting take on January. Russell Brand brought me here. New subscriber!

[@alecneff]

I was studying the story of Cain and Abel this morning. I have an intuition of a similar relationship going on in that story. Cain is the "wild man" or the "outer man" who find himself toiling in the dirt and eventually being cast further out toward the edge. Abel on the other hand is this "inner/new" man. Abel is new in the sense that he is literally born more recently than Cain. The symbolism of being a keeper of sheep also seems to have an element of "keeping/gathering" toward the center or the inside. The sin comes when the outer man kills the inner man rather than providing his strength/fruit/body to support the inner man. What happens when the outer man kills the inner man? The outer man is driven from the face of God and the ground becomes hostile. Heaven and Earth are separated.

[@adamvano3459]

Thank you! This look through the outer/inner frame on the story Cain and Abel is VERY insightful.

[@enzocompanbadillo5365]

There is also a very interesting take by architect and scholar Francesco Carreri, author of the book Walkscapes: Walking as an aesthetic practice. According to him, Cain, who offers God vegetables and produce, represents sedentarism while Abel, who raises animals and offers them as sacriffice, personifies nomadism.

[@thesecondlawandthetowerhou6026]

Your interpretation is brilliantly insightful. I have always thought that Dr Peterson misses many of the subtleties and patterns of this story with his rather tiresome repetition of focusing on the murderous envy. It always strikes me as an out of balance relationship.

[@Zbfromthesouth]

God our Heavenly Father/The Word Jesus Christ/The Holy Spirit … the one and True Only Influencer

[@dpresspro]

There’s an interview with SF and fantasy author Gene Wolfe where he discusses the concept of the threshold in literary and scientific terms. He mentions that science fiction (the mythic future) and fantasy (the mythic past) are often criticized by the literary establishment because they don’t deal with the “here and now” in the same way that “literary” or “realistic” fiction does. Gene Wolfe then turns the conversation to temporal science and how scientists struggle to prove the existence of a “knife’s edge” present reality at all. Therefore, in one sense, all we really have are the past and future, and fantasy and science fiction are more real than literature about the so-called “present.” In other words, Wolfe reframes literary fiction as a literature of the threshold, something more elusive than literary critics would have us believe.

[@KizaWittaker]

The two Johns - John the Baptist and John the Apostle, the two book ends to Jesus life.

[@dwright4u7]

A lot of biblical characters are doubled. Sometimes in name. Sometimes in archetype. Sometimes both. The fractal pattern is present everywhere in a dualistic reality, and now that I'm thinking about it, the Janus symbolism could also map onto (what duality symbolism is missing) the 3rd part of the Trinity.

[@ButterflyElsy]

@@dwright4u7As I read in the book of John this morning “There they crucified him, and with him two others-one on each side and Jesus in the middle.” There was an effort to make it very clear Jesus is in the middle. In the middle of two others.

[@ChrishBlake]

Johnus

[@dwright4u7]

@victoryandCO Interesting! Fun fact: The name of the "The Good Thief" or later known as St. Dismos means "Sunset," "To the West," or "Death" and is meant to invoke imagery of a ship vanishing or sinking below a sunset on the horizon of a body of water. Also, D in Hebrew is often represented by a door. 1-3 letters are heavenly #s and 5-8 are earthly #s. 4=D the door. 9 = completion. Heaven + Earth. The Prophet Daniel is a fractal archetype that fits most of this imagery as well. He's packed full of symbolism! 😊

[@carefulcarpenter]

Synchronistic Mathematics puts a real face on this symbolism. True reality. Subjective. Divine. Something academia is affraid of.

[@CelesteThompson-k4r]

I see January as a contemplative month, even monastic. I find November to be a threshold month-- nature going "inside" to wait for spring.

[@aaronjclarke1973]

Fascinating

[@slowboymetaphysician3899]

I knew a guy named Janus. Last name that is. His first name was Hugh. Great guy.

[@Tigerbrown44]

Are you Holden McGroin?

[@waylonk2453]

I'm a big fan of your exegesis of Janus. Your video was a pleasure to watch

[@AlexLGagnon]

Also, the word Janus is mainly composed of another word, etymologically related, which is a body part that acts as a threshold between the inside and the outside, a door to evacuate alien nutrients. At first, I meant this to be sort of a joke but my observation might not be so off. On a more serious note, I might add that what separates one day to another is this liminal and ambiguous period of sleep and dream. In that sense, I believe we could say all recreational activities are thresholds.

[@dianion640]

Here in Norway there is a wool clothing line named Janus. Their logo has two faces

[@Saint_nobody]

I'm all for the "strange and outthere" when it comes to learning. 😁

[@Namtucket]

Thank you Johnathan

[@Johnged15]

Happy New Year, Jonathan.

[@lynzysconstitutionalcrashc7836]

There's a Door company called Janus...they use the emblem...mostly service self storage type roll-up doors.

[@edanan99]

If you step on a threshold, you erase it in a sense, as your foot is now placed in the two separated areas at the same time, joining them together. It's erasing boundaries, which is erasing reality. It's not a comfortable place to be in, so people instinctively avoid it.

[@KizaWittaker]

That is not how it is represented. When you step on the threshold, your ground is unstable/unknown. You are stepping where the beginning and end meet, where two opposites are joined together in confusion.

[@edanan99]

@@KizaWittaker that's basically what I said.

[@WideAwakeHuman]

It’s called a “fatal-funnel” in room clearing tactics for a reason lol

[@ancelmiller1285]

Great work! Reminds me of the Capricorn Zodiac sign

[@juricatomicic4829]

Interesting, and it makes sense why we also have such customs about thresholds. On side note, I have a question (and suggestion) for you Jonathan. I noticed there are many stories in which some character, for example shoemaker, makes a deal with a devil, but the shoemaker manages to trick the devil in the end. I suppose it's an archetypal story, so I wanted to suggest that topic for a future video, or ask if you've already made that video ?

[@QED_]

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[@Lethemographilogical]

It's like my dog. He wants to go out and then stands in the threshold looking back and forth from the inside to the out. Should rename him Janus.

[@BlueInk912]

😅.

[@BlueInk912]

😅.

[@mellomojared]

Jonathan. Thank you

[@Billyboy597]

I came specifically because of wanting to better understand the Elden Ring DlC and the movie Longlegs. Started with Longlegs. Nice talk. Thank you

[@johnmoore2056]

Good stuff! Well thought through.

[@davidvanvranken1595]

That’s it-from now on I’m calling my threshold the Maginot Line because of Jonathan

[@JosefSvenningsson]

Happy new year Jonathan!

[@antonolandersson5019]

This is eerie! I just started writing a short film about a guy named Cristian Janus and who eventually transforms thanks to Sophia Vesta into a Christ-figure! Can't wait to listen to JPs insights 😊

[@rosafalls8068]

The pattern is gnostic, not going to work. A character that becomes like Christ through exposure to plain wisdom and not deep hevel is like someone getting exposure to knowledge and thinking themselves great and to be worshipped, like some falling star. The Janus character is meant to stand near the throne and worship God day and night, singing, "Glory, Glory, Glory!" The Janus with the eyes that see front and back isn't to be worshipped or save the world, but to cause all to see and worship God. But a Lucifer character could fulfill a Janus becoming Christ-like, or thinking he was. Ralph Waldo Ellison did an excellent job of this tale and trickery with his, "Invisible Man," an amazing book about an activist that causes chaos all over the place and has no clue it's his vast shining ignorance. Jesus Christ loves even those without knowledge, those in a coma in a bed, seemingly useless and failed, weak humans. He came for the mustard seeds.

[@antonolandersson5019]

@@rosafalls8068 I agree. I didn't pitch the movie entirely well. What I meant is that the Janus character goes into a purification thanks to Sophia. He will not be Christ but will in the end start following the call to be Christ-like as we all are called to be. The character is on the outset anti-christian in his beliefs and has to undergo a purification to burn off his friction to God. I'll check out the book! Sounds very interesting, thanks! I think a lot activist like that will soon emerge in this world... Thanks for the feedback! I wouldn't want to get it wrong:)

[@rosafalls8068]

@@antonolandersson5019 The book was one of Barack Obama's favorites.....haha. Most believe that Ralph Ellison did write a Christ character, but there is absolutely no way that's possible if one knows some Biblical apocalypse....the main character is actually, an idiot and one of the most brilliant things I've ever seen, because so many readers are deceived by him. I ran it past an old professor that had read the book many times, and he said he'd never considered the character, Invisible Man, anything but a Christ character, but after I showed all the Biblical and Milton allusions, he said he couldn't unsee it and that Ellison had indeed, written one of the most deceptive Lucifers ever written, because most had assumed he was a Christ since the 1950's. Ellison was brilliant and deceived even the elect and most educated, and never once revealed the truth. Ellison crammed it full of Greek and Biblical myth, as well as American history and music. It's possibly one of the greatest, even most prophetic American books ever written about us, but also very under read. There is some woman in that book that, "awakens" the nameless main character, but her name is Emma, a take on an ancient goddess, Ema. But the main character seems only awakened to his absolute ignorance and degeneracy, and doesn't seem to comprehend the apocalyptic race riot at the end, or his role in it. Ellison was a black man, but seems to have mulled over all the history and issues, politics; and decided most of it was all pointless....and Satan doesn't take sides, he's an opportunist and on all sides and none...... I don't know, can a human ever be purified by their own works? Didn't we fail that, thus, require Grace, and God to cover us? Jesus came to help a lot of very helpless, sick, poor, fallen people. If you've ever fallen very low to pain, poverty, injury you can't help yourself. You're a worm and want to die. The only wisdom I've learned is I can't do it. I can't lift myself up. It always takes someone else to reach down and help, intervene. If we were perfect, we wouldn't need God. I've never once pulled myself back from death. It was always God and a miracle, unexplainable every time. There is knowledge and there is wisdom. Related, but two very different things. Oedipus Rex got knowledge and poked his eyes out. The great difference between Oedipus Rex and Jesus was the parents. Jesus' parents really loved a lot and sacrificed themselves and their egos for that baby, rather than tossing him out like Oedipus' parents. Joseph married Mary, saving her from being stoned at a time when unmarried pregnant women got stoned. Jesus had two very loving parents who went through many travels and sacrifices for him. That's wisdom....saving a lowly baby that couldn't do anything of its own will.....not until older, and then, it was his Father's will.

[@antonolandersson5019]

@@rosafalls8068 @rosafalls8068 Well, now I really have to read it! Thanks for the recommendation. Many people underrestimate how deceiving the false prophets will be. Discernment will be needed more than ever since even the elect will be deceived. Of course, one can argue that we can't accomplish any purification or true development without the grace of God. We are always more depended on the grace than we know, even unbelievers are! Although I think we can be purified by sinning less and try to walk the narrow way in accordance with the saints. If we succeed then the glory belongs to God. Compare to Christ and what is really demanded of us, we are wretched worms indeed. But I think it dangerous to feel that you are a hopeless case and might as well go on sinning because you're the lowest of the low. We have a free will and can choose to reach up to the divine or not and pray that God will meet us with His grace. The difference between knowledge and wisdom is a interesting question which I have pondered about. For it to be wisdom, it should lead you towards God. Although I have a hard time to understand how the wisest man in the Bible, King Solomon, could turn into an apostate then. Perhaps there was a pridefulness in his earthly wisdom which mislead him. God knows...

[@antonolandersson5019]

​@rosafalls8068 @rosafalls8068 Well, now I really have to read it! Thanks for the recommendation. Many people underrestimate how deceiving the false prophets will be. Discernment will be needed more than ever since even the elect will be deceived. Of course, one can argue that we can't accomplish any purification or true development without the grace of God. We are always more depended on the grace than we know, even unbelievers are! Although I think we can be purified by sinning less and try to walk the narrow way in accordance with the saints. If we succeed then the glory belongs to God. Compare to Christ and what is really demanded of us, we are wretched worms indeed. But I think it dangerous to feel that you are a hopeless case and might as well go on sinning because you're the lowest of the low. We have a free will and can choose to reach up to the divine or not and pray that God will meet us with His grace. The difference between knowledge and wisdom is a interesting question which I have pondered about. For it to be wisdom, it should lead you towards God. Although I have a hard time to understand how the wisest man in the Bible, King Solomon, could turn into an apostate then. Perhaps there was a pridefulness in his earthly wisdom which mislead him. God knows...

[@michellestevenson8060]

"The eye of a needle" was the entering gate of the wall to Jerusalem, a threshold if you will, and it reminds to enter without baggage.

[@rosafalls8068]

I thought it was Petra, the stone trading city where the wealthy entered in an out. Maybe, there are many needle-eyed entrances that heavily laden camels can't pass through.

[@dustinthewind825]

i want that shirt! Great work!

[@ibelieve3111]

Thanks

[@antonolandersson5019]

There is a duality in Janus. Two faces facing in opposite directions. The one disregards the other. Christ unites the opposites. Christ is the alpha and the omega without duality. The past and the future. He transforms the law since he is rotted in the old testament, which Bishop Barron underlines, and is with us to the end time. I think this is another way in which Christianity transforms the old pagan Roman gods. Christ transforms the past for the future good. The timing of the this video is eeeeeerrrrieeee since I just wrote a script based on the symbolism of Janus. Thanks for the insights (as always)

[@oekmama]

This also reminds me of the medieval and Renaissance representations of the cardinal virtue of Prudence. She also had two faces. One an old man and the other a young woman.

[@rachelpalm7403]

That is so intriguing to me. Why do you think it's an old man and not an old woman? Genuinely curious. I've only seen one representation and found it very interesting.

[@oekmama]

@@rachelpalm7403 I fell down the rabbit hole and have been looking at about a hundred images of different representations from middle age through Renaissance to early 18th century in art. Mostly on the artmirrorsart blog and accompanying artmirrorsfuture channel. The depiction of Prudence has evolved over the years and may have started with three heads, is often represented with three women’s heads but just as often with dual heads. A few researchers connect the four cardinal virtues with Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica, which “repurposed” pagan Greek philosophers into Christianity. Since then, Prudence (the double-headed) is represented by the young maiden (providence/foresight) but also memory and the intelligence of the older man.

[@jonathanfarrell2378]

Very interesting! Thanks for explaining and posting!

[@that1guyFred]

Dune, ch.18, intro passage. Clear proof that Janus is representative of the double consciousness experienced by initiates. e.g. lucid, occult, states resulting from meditation, lucid dreaming, etc. Apollo vs. Dionysus, awake vs. sleeping, order vs. chaos. God vs. Satan Your explanation of thresholds in the beginning fits perfectly with the occult interpretation.

[@ОксанаТульпа]

In Egypt there wss a go Hnum or Hanum ,who had created people from clay as Prometheus, and then dammed by other gods , but his two heads were similar to rams' or goats'. And it's interesting that theese images are found by archaeologists in Harappa. And the consolation that is in January is also Capricorn, but wilth one head .

[@FeminineRose]

I was born in January!🎉

[@Lotvs_one]

Would you say we have a "little flip" in June too, since it divides the year in two and it's when the Gemini zodiac sign manifests in its solar form?

[@zita-lein]

Loved this! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! ❤️💙

[@AugustasKunc]

Was this meant to be uploaded on Jan 1st? Why did Jonathan say “hope you had a happy new year”?

[@Cookiedon15]

I saw "Janus" and thought of the codename of one of the characters in the James Bond film Goldeneye. I see now, why he had that codename

[@sir.santiago5922]

Great video Jonathan! I would suggest looking into Abraxas, which is similar to Janus. It is quite the rabbithole, but it'd be amazing to see you talking about it

[@astrogumbo]

Agreed

[@cassidycarpede8689]

Exactly where does the Young man end and when does the old man begin?

[@QED_]

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[@crissiannj]

Is it true that the new year used to be celebrated on March 25th, annunciation? Tha5 would make so much sense if it was. Especially since the summer solstice is on March 21st.

[@k-lab3824]

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[@thaithaifee]

How can one apply Xmas symbolism to the southern hemisphere where seasons are switched?

[@differous01]

The different faces [3:45] show an Old year/ram/man (looking back on many winters) and a New, with a youthful outlook, bearing an ivy (funerary) crown. The reflective aspect exhibits the same theory of mind seen in Germanic and Judean religions: Odinic consciousness speaks from between the Ravens, Huginn (Thought) and Muninn (Memory), YHWH from "between the Cherubim" [Ex25v22].

[@peterhitti2202]

“It might be correct to say that there are three times, a present of past things, a present of present things, and a present of future things. For some such different times do exist in the mind, but nowhere else that I can see. The present of past things is the memory; the present of present things is direct perception; and the present of future things is expectation.” (Saint Augustine - Confessions XI, 20.26)

[@QED_]

Wouldn't "presence" be a more evocative translation of the Latin *"praesens"* (?) Thus: "praesens de praeteritis memoria, praesens de praesentibus contuitus, praesens de futuris expectatio" ====> "The *presence* of past things is the memory; the *presence* of present things is direct perception; and the *presence* of future things is expectation."

[@peterhitti2202]

Keen observer. I would say that etymologically you are absolutely right in that the English ‘presence’ is closer to the Latin ‘prae-sens’, which literally means ‘before or in front of sense experience or perception in general’. But in context, ‘praesens’ signifies, more conceptually and less experientially, one of the three parts of time: the ‘present’, as opposed to the past or the future, keeping in mind, however, that any concept is ultimately derived from experience…

[@peterhitti2202]

@@QED_ besides… the “de” preposition is followed by ablatives (praeterit-is, praesent-ibus, futur-is), hence better not accentuate too strongly a genitive translation…

[@cuthbertsboots5733]

The transitional symbolism is also present in the feast of Theophany, when Christ enters the liminal space of the Jordan, a river that indicates a transition from the old to the new in the Scriptures. It indicates here, among other things, the diminishing of the Old Law (represented in the last prophet St. John the Forerunner--the wild man), and the increasing of the New Law (represented in Christ).

[@casandra0]

2:39 Can’t believe I’ve been SPECIFICALLY stepping on the threshold my whole This might explain some things.

[@Deep_Lore]

January and the gates of Janus were introduced into the Roman calendar/religion by Numa Pompilius, who promoted monotheism and aniconic worship (see Varro, Plutarch). Occasional uses of Janus symbolism among medieval Christians can be interpreted as connecting the new religion to this early, long-lost Roman monotheism.

[@ChrishBlake]

Thanks Jonathon. As a Protestant I struggle integrating pagan symbolism. Like really. This and the Russell brand interview helps

[@WideAwakeHuman]

I used to as well - but the world and all that’s in it should be brought under His dominion right? Take it ALL and make it ours. Plus this has happened so many Times throughout history you have already integrated more pagan symbolism than you could ever know and the “new” meaning is all that matters. Cheers.

[@JoanneTaylorQabboJo]

Every insight is a gift. Enriching both realms.

[@SweetImmaculateHeart]

I would recommend watching Jonathan's Universal History series on this channel that he does with Richard Roland. It is extremely helpful on this topic!

[@j3kfd9j]

The months January and February were added after the original ten (March through December). Originally, winter was left unrepresented on the Roman calendar, apparently due to its irrelevance to agriculture. But by the time of the Roman republic Janus and Februa were given their respective months, making winter fully representable in terms of dates. January being the first month did not necessarily occur at the same time: it appears that the start of the year was shifted back from March 1st to January 1st at some time. So it may be somewhat coincidental that January starts the year. But it's very appropriate: having the year both end and start in close proximity to the solstice (in that time taking place on December 25th) is entirely fitting. I like the symbolism of the winter months being added later: chaos and what was regarded as unuseful eventually was incorporated into the worldview. The moment of solstice itself is also powerfully symbolic, both occurring on the darkest day of the year and being the moment when the days begin to get lighter. So, the worst and the best simultaneously (in my view). Janus's two faces fit this perfectly.

[@lamourconquierttous]

Very interesting thoughts. When considering the debate about when a biblical day begins, it could seem like starting the year at the winter rest period of the earth is in line with a sundown-start-of-the-day (ie. from the Genesis text “…the evening and the morning were the ___ day…”); but, Leviticus states that the beginning of months for the biblical year is in the spring (month of the Abib), which on a level points to a sunup-start-of-the-day… Not sure what I think, but find it all interesting to consider in addition to threshold ideas and various philosophical historical accounts.

[@Madgardian]

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[@M.M.J00]

Hey. jonathan. I am a writer who is interested in writing about fantasy and magic like jk rowling. But in the bible it says God hates sorceresses. What are you thoughts on that. I would really appreciate if you took some time to address this.

[@dabidibup]

It’s hard to grasp opposing extremes aren’t vastly separated. A holiday that has bad and good? Isn’t that why we have Halloween and Christmas?

[@anatomicallymodernhuman5175]

In other words, our calendars are messed up. Christmas Day should fall on January 1, which should be the day after Winter Solstice. Currently, it's a total mess. Thanks, Julius and Greg!

[@macsheesh]

thx jonathan love your work -- can you dig into phoenix symbolism?

[@06rtm]

The Phoenix meets its conclusion in Christ

[@tacopancho2166]

Its an elite symbol too. Ordo ab Chao. The phoenix recussitate after death. The elite create chaos with programmed solution. In the end time soon they will use this. We will go frim darkness to (false) light. Stull stuck in the matrixm we have to be carefull to refuse the system, vaccines, antichrist, and all that governments propose

[@BenjaminABoyce]

Whoa did you upgrade your camera, or do I only get the potato one when we interview 😂

[@JonathanPageau]

Zoom does it. Happy New Year, Benjamin.

[@mamaschronicles3244]

Hummm Unclear is an understatement

[@tacopancho2166]

The new year supposedly and is supposed to start in april

[@matthewsheek8306]

I remember seeing depictions of Peter and Paul in a similar fashion. Though, I believe they were facing each other

[@everitadave]

this reminds me the story in the Bible when Jesus was given a "tribute penny" the image of Cesar depicted on it, contrasting the image of God.

[@CrossingTheStreetArt]

The technical term is "liminality". Thresholds and transition periods are considered liminal.

[@tomloewe8474]

Yes. Liminality is a location of possibility. Neither here nor there. It is the central locus of all things "seen and unseen." It is the place of potentiality where creativity exists, where the unexplored can be explored. It is a spirit-filled environment of encounter. Because of this, the limimal can be a place of danger but also a place of epiphany and revelation. I don't think it's a place that is necessarily sought after (except, perhaps, by artists or madmen), but it can be a place where we find ourselves thrust in-to by necessity, where the rules of the past no longer apply in their fullness and where the soul relies on the grace of God to make the transitions required to take the next step.

[@JimmyDThing]

Jonathan should play Alan Wake 2 and be introduced to Warlin Door.

[@mattbrown1897]

Perhaps Janus is the doorway to the eternal present, as he can see into the past and future, thus the vesca is the perception of thee true present, which the Big Bang is describing

[@QED_]

And maybe even . . . "the doorway to the Eternal Presence" (?)

[@mattbrown1897]

@@QED_ exactly what I had in mind

[@QED_]

@@mattbrown1897 Does this evoke it for you at all (?): thebigclockstore.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Hamilton.png

[@TheBirdmon17]

can you do more videos on the months of false gods?

[@mikosapps2476]

Yoda said do or not do.. Mr Myagi said walk on one side of road or the other or get squished! 😎

[@teddymengesha7140]

Symbolically the birth of the Messiah brings about the “new year”/ “new world”. Leading to spring resurrection

[@RomanDobs]

It’s certainly a Ukrainian custom not to greet anyone or say goodbye in the middle of a doorway.

[@somechrisguy]

Keep the heat in!

[@GandarDooM]

There is an interesting similarity in the names of the old Slavic god Svarozhich (Svarozhits, Svarozhich) and according to Hindu tradition, the second in line, the father of mankind in this day of Brahma (Kalpa) under the name Swarochisha Manu, who is considered responsible for the invention of clothing for people and thus the possibility of settlement of people in the northern regions as well.

[@olgakarpushina492]

The name of the god itself is Svarog. The - ich suffix in Svarozhich means the same as - son in English last names. "Svarozhich" means any (male) descendant of Svarog.

[@GandarDooM]

@@olgakarpushina492 interesting, nice to know! do you know if there are any connecting characteristics between the Slavic Mokoš and the Vedic Moksha

[@olgakarpushina492]

@@GandarDooM There must be. After all, Vedas and the Slavic verb "vedat' " (to know) and its derivatives such as "babka vedun'ja" (a wise woman/healer witch) are related.

[@yahudiyah8]

That is interesting. Manu is an Akan surname.

[@yahudiyah8]

@@olgakarpushina492 That is interesting. Babka Vedun'ja sounds like it comes from Vodun. The gbeve languages created vedic languages. So words like Karma, akashic, Brahma, Chi, Shiva, Manu, yoga come from these afrikan languages. Althoght some Vedic words today are not the original like karma is originally Karama. Vodun means free people/country to free yourself through healing your communities or oneself. Also can have many other different meanings like 2 spirit connecting with deities. Also Janus is related to Jin which is related to Genius akan word for mind is Adwene pronuced Ajiyne. Twi word thinking is Adwendwen. pronounced Ajinjiyn. Our oringal language didn't have the letter J

[@StoneShards]

Janus symbolizes God the Father's special function: one face stares down the Primordial Chaos, endlessly observing "all possibility"; the other face projects that vision of possibility into the plan of manifestation that the Son then produces as "existence", in conjunction with the Holy Spirit whose special function is to modulate the pressure of disorder emanating from the Chaotic Void at the bottom side of manifestation "furthest" from God the Father. The Son creates forms and structures powered by the modulated pressure of disorder that the Spirit controls. The middle face of Janus illustrates the Unity of Attention and Intention, the modes of behavior of the two faces.

[@JustJaneTruth]

Opposites Attract, Complete Each Other, And Keep Each Other In Checks & Balances. 🏁 Yay Aunty Janny! 💯🎉😘 Her Turn To Rule & Reign Fairly - Girls’ Rules Rock It Is Written About: Daughter Of Zion (Bible Bunny) Judah Goes First Now Thank You, Jesus, I’ll Take The Helm And Raise You Up FOREVA! ❤ 💃Amen & Mena 🕺 Janet & Jesus

[@elucidation3064]

I was born at the beginning of January

[@Eddy98552]

"Step on a crack, break yo mamma's back" ... was a thing we used to say when I was a kid walking down the side walk before proceeding to try and make sure not to step on any cracks.

[@ronishchaudhary]

I AM the Door.

[@stephenbrannen]

Great insights, as usual. I think there's also something interesting in Janus' inability to interface with us in the now since he only looks forward and backward (in the vast majority of representations). I think that makes him a flawed wish-fulfillment character exposing our unnatural desire to be able to peer both into the past and future. His contrast with Christ whose past/future perspective comes from transcendence rather than a monstrous opposite face perspective gives us an insight into our own ill-formed imaginations. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqmQgX2ChbCJi7M

[@Cavirex]

Thanks for the channel recommendation!

[@bigt2731]

Of course this is 322 on Spotify, Pageaus little nod to the elite trying to get them to welcome him into the fold 😉

[@antonolandersson5019]

Please, enlighten us: why is 322 and Janus connected? 🙃

[@Madgardian]

Lunar calendar has 13 months or moons. April was the first month of the year. April Fool's day comes out of this. January is the 11th month of the year. Sol the fourth month after June and before July. Much has been changed.

[@domenzizek8865]

Wow i got in early

[@livin2themusick]

💌

[@MephiticMiasma]

Now we know where the term "janitor" came from....

[@AugustasKunc]

ianua means door in latin, ianitor is literally a doorman

[@jeycee32]

January is so two-faced 😖

[@apemant]

This got anything to do with Janice Joplin?

[@agucci]

Janus is very good and worshipful.

[@kellymadden2873]

"Step on a crack...." I never understood it. Now I do.

[@ThomasG-og4yb]

I suppose this was suggested, because I have irritated the algorithms as of late…

[@discipleofra4354]

Apparently, January 1st is also the feast of the circumcision, being 7 days after Christmas. Perhaps also symbolic of getting rid of the old and beginning a new covenant?

[@nemo-i1e]

Now concerning the symbolism of christmas is a conundrum in itself. For december 21-26 is the darkest time of the year and it is also the beginning of the zodiac sign of capricorn, thus capricorn representing a goat. In the Biblical old testament (Leviticus) when priest prayed and performed the atonement ritual for the cleansing of sins of their community the goat was used as a sacrificial rite, thus the priest would lay hands on the goat transferring the peoples sins on the live goat, then setting the goat to raom in the wilderness to be devoured by the deamon azael (a beast in the wilderness) as a form payment for their sins of the people (but for what?). In other ancient custums said of Greece, Egypt and other kingdoms a similar practice was performed by millennarian elite priest in conjunction with the machinations of merchants on the new millennium, however instead of a sacrificial escapegoat a human sacrifice was carried out by the elite priest for fertility rights, of their prosperity and walth. The victim usually consisted of a black slave who naturally was born kind and innocent (gullible). The priest would instruct the community to purposely corrupt the innocence of the slave with machinations usually performed by evildoers so as to find blemish and fault in the slave, to be accused for their millennarian ritual as payment to the evil one. Again for their fertility rites, prosperity and wealth of the kingdom and its citizens. Very coincidental to that of the scapegoat ritual. Either way if it were to have happened in that manner how aweful for that person to have been born coinciding the apointed new millennium. Another awful coincidence that relates to christmas in the west is the traditional celebration of santa clouse, the word santa is an anagram word that spells the name of the evil one by removing the letter n from the center of the word and placing the n at the end of the word. Bazaar! Even more buzaar is the word clause. A business clause in a contact is usually used in a binding business agreements to gives the contract special privilege and rights etc.. when a dyslexic person looks the words santa clause it has been said by some that what they see is the name of the evil one next to the word clause. Whether the business word clause is spelt in the sense of a homonym a word that is spelt the same with different meaning or a homophone a word spelt differently having the same sound and different meaning, as perhaps argued by others. The word clause has the same connotation reference either way. These observations in reading and cross referencing material are difficult grasp as truth and yet their it is. History has referenced certain catholic popes rearranging ancient festive celebrations to fit the same modern calendar christian celebration. The coincidence is that christmas and easter are celebrate with the movement of the celestial heavenly bodies movement in mind being either a moon sing relating to solstice or an equinox etc. There its go figure? in the pursuit of thruth it is still a conundrum ready to uncoverd.

[@161157gor]

TaijiTu... ➰

[@neonpop80]

Circumcission as the word would mean; circle-insission or circle cut. Suggests a cutting point of a cycle/circle. It is the end point to a continuation or a marker. It being related to a reproductive organ would lean it towards fertility. Perhaps also comemorating the death and beginning of the sun cycle.

[@throughdaniel]

Trap Lord: games games: just a choice: brittle?: Slaughter:

[@B42uc1]

purgatory

[@dennishunt7725]

Communal relationships are neither married or unmarried hmmm

[@williambranch4283]

Epiphany on Jan 6th.

[@DanielR1989]

🤍

[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

You a Sun in Capricorn, Jonathan? Black is your color.

[@RandomPerson28337]

Or Aquarius both ruled by Saturn

[@Daxkalak]

The night before new years eve, I dreamt that I was in a courtroom. I must have been in Israel because one lawyer represented Israel or the Jews, and the other Palestine or the Palestinians. The Jewish female lawyer was standing before a Jewish Judge, and I just caught the part of her sentence where she says something like: "... and this has caused us much trauma", but then the Palestinian lawyer sitting at a desk adjacent from hers sarcastically replies: "But your very State is a trauma!" This comment caused the whole courtroom to freeze in silence. Then to my shock, the female lawyer turns towards the sitting man and pulls out a revolver from her suit jacket and proceeds to shoot the man. Then again, to my shock and horror, the Judge pulls out a gun from under his bench and also starts shooting the Palestinian lawyer. This causes panic and chaos in the courtroom, as all the Jews/Israelis start killing everyone in the courtroom who wasn't Jewish. I started fearing for my own life. Then this murder spree spilled out onto the ancient streets of Jerusalem, where I saw waves of Israeli soldiers, dressed in their characteristic khaki green uniforms, flood the streets and begin to kill everyone who wasn't Jewish (i.e. Gentiles). Somehow, they just ran past me every time, probably because I must have been just a spectator. But then the soldiers did something strange, they began to also turn on their own people - they began to murder their own Jewish family: Children, old people, women, you name it. By now, the streets of Jerusalem were covered in mountains of dead bodies and the blood of Jews and non-Jews alike. The soldiers had now disappeared, but fear was still in the air. Then, as I was walking around these piles of corpses, individual small children, covered in soot and ragged clothes, crawled out from each mound of dead bodies (I thought at the time that they had survived the massacre by hiding under the piles). I then took two children by the hand and told them to follow me. The other surviving kids followed behind us as we ran. Then suddenly we were at an old primary school I used to go to in New Zealand, which is a setting that often appears in my dreams. Me and the kids were still running through the school also, and as we ran onto the field, I had an ominous feeling that something was about to fall from the sky. Then it happened, large drops of ruby red blood, each drop clear and distinct, began to fall from the sky down on to us and on to the earth. I woke up wondering what the meaning of this dream was, but because of its timing and significance, I knew it had something to do with the new year. Like you said, about thresholds.

[@JamesR-f9l]

The name Ιανευς or Janeus is 666 in Greek Gemmatria.