322 - Janus, the Two-Faced God of January
The Symbolic World
Jonathan Pageau
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🗓️ 30 December 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So I want to talk about something a little strange at the outset. |
| 0:03.6 | It will be to some, which is to talk about the symbolism of the month of January, and its |
| 0:10.1 | original namesake, which is the god Janus. |
| 0:27.8 | This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. And so I don't tend to talk about pagan symbolism so much, but here I think |
| 0:41.9 | meditating and pondering on the pagan symbolism will help us understand even some of the |
| 0:47.1 | Christian symbolism, which appears at around this time. |
| 0:51.8 | And so January, of course, is named after the god Janus. The god Janus is the god |
| 0:57.3 | of thresholds. He is the god of doors, the god of transition, the god of in-between, right? And so |
| 1:05.8 | you can understand why the symbolism of his representation is to show him with two faces, one face going one way, |
| 1:14.0 | the other face going the other way. And you can understand it in different ways. People will |
| 1:18.4 | interpret it sometimes and say, you know, it's the past and the future. Sometimes you can see |
| 1:23.7 | Janice with three faces, with one in the middle, two. So it's like the past, the future, and the |
| 1:27.3 | present. That is a good way to understand it. But, you know, a better way |
| 1:31.8 | to understand it is the symbolism of thresholds themselves, the symbolism of the transition |
| 1:38.7 | between two spaces, the ambiguity of that transition. |
| 1:48.6 | You know, there are a lot of superstitions about thresholds can be understood that way because the threshold is in some ways, you know, a place that is neither inside nor outside. |
| 1:56.9 | And it has to be indefinite by its very nature because you imagine a line between inside and outside doesn't actually exist physically, right? |
| 2:07.0 | It's it's an imaginary boundary and that boundary actually has no space in physically. |
| 2:13.9 | Like if you try to actually trace the exact line of where your house, your house |
| 2:19.9 | ends and begins, you wouldn't be able to find it exactly because there's always more, |
| 2:26.1 | you can always crush it more and more until at some point it's actually just a virtual line |
| 2:30.5 | that separates the inside and the outside. And That's why usually there's all these superstitions |
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