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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 110. Chapters: Tomte, Ajax, Marduk, Patron saint, Kami, Eriu, Neith, Major Arcana, Janus, Di Penates, Melqart, Fodla, Banba, Nemausus, Roma, Vosegus, Nekhbet, Chensit, Arvernus, Ferentina, Ialonus Contrebis, Guan Yu, Wadjet, Mars, Kobold, Lares, Murugan, Quetzalcoatl, N ga, Patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mah bh ta, Household deity, Guardian angel, Maria Makiling, Tutelary deity, I ha-deva(t ), Brownie, Sh j, Yaksha, I a-devat, Domovoi, Heyoka, Brigantia, Nanshe, Kubaba, Haltija, Bluebird of happiness, Cicolluis, Teraphim, Litavis, Hob, Eshmun, Kurunta, Kuldevta, Kikimora, Daragang Magayon, Genius of Palermo, Lares Familiares, Maria Sinukuan, European Marian Network, Power animal, Maria Cacao, Kan-Laon, Jinushigami, Gontia, Ovinnik, Cofgod, Zababa, Ninazu, Bannik, Pabilsa, Tutu, Abgal, Telo, Tishpak, Sirsir, Sharra Itu, Kotavi, Lulal, Gatumdag, Khipa, Ninegal, Shul-utula, Jack o' the bowl, Nu Mus Da, Alruna-Wife. Excerpt: In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Janus is the god of beginnings and transitions, thence also of gates, doors, doorways, endings and time. Most often he is depicted as having two faces on his head, facing opposite directions: one face looks eastward and the other westward. Symbolically they look simultaneously into the future and the past, back at the last year and forward to the next. The etymologies proposed by the ancient fall into three categories. Each of them bears implications about the nature of the god itself. The first one is grounded into a detail of the definition of Chaos given by Paul the Deacon: hiantem, hiare, be open, from which word Ianus would derive for the subtraction of the aspiration. This etymology is related to the notion of Chaos which would define the primordial nature of the god. The idea of an association of the god to the Greek concept of Chaos looks contrived, as ...
