Janus The God of Change is Coming Back Very Soon

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Happy New Year will be said and heard again as the New Year approaches. But the day celebrated as New Year’s Day was not always January 1.

January 1 marks the end of a period of remembrance of the passing year for radio, television and newspapers. Publications have year-end articles that review the changes during the past year. The topics include politics, natural disasters, music, arts, the listing of significant individuals and those who died during the past year and many more.

During the Middle Age, New Year’s Day was celebrated among Christians usually on March 25 (Roman Calendar).After the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1582, the day was observed on the January 1. The Jewish New Year is the first day of Tishri, which falls some time in September or in early October. The Chinese New Year is between January 10 and February 19 of the Gregorian calendar. The Muslim New Year falls on the first day of Muharram. The word Muharram means "forbidden" so called because it was unlawful (haram) to fight during this month.

The month of January is named for Janus. In Roman mythology, Janus was the god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings and endings. He was known as Janus Geminus (twin Janus) with two faces looking in opposite directions. The first hour of the day, the first day of the month and the first month of the year bears his name.

Janus is symbolizing the god of change and transitions such as, the progression of past to future, of one condition and of one vision to another. And because Janus symbolizes them, the making of New Year’s resolutions had become a tradition of the season. People begin to think of what they would like to change for the next year. They make resolutions for everything they can think of. And of course, I also did it the same thing as well.

Janus was also worshipped at the beginning of the harvest and planting times, as well as marriages, births and other beginnings. During his reign Janus was the first to announce the golden age. He introduced the important of money, laws and agriculture – that making him a culture hero.

In old Japan calendar, the month January is called Mutsuki. In Finnish it is called Tammikuu – meaning month of the oak.

Also January 1 for the Roman Catholic and Aglican churches is the feast day celebrating the circumcision of Jesus, who is believed by all Christians the Savior and the Redeemer of human race and the world.

As for me January is the beginning of the twelve months cycle. Happy returns of the month!

How True Circumcised Women are Found to Be Stressed, Anxious and Aggressive

Circumcised males live with constant irritation to their exposed glands, these results from friction against their clothing during work or exercises. Female circumcision is a horrible tradition practiced in some cultures too. It involves the removal of the clitoris and other sensitive parts that are vital to female sexual response; the female is castrated, not circumcised. The girl’s genitalia are stitched together in such a way that sex will be painful and childbirth horrific.

Image via Wikimedia Commons Photo taken at the British Museum, London, June 1970 uploaded by Meisam 

Some conservative group believed that female circumcision is about genital mutilation and a human rights violation? In the Holy Bible there was no text recorded regarding circumcision of females. In African oral tradition tells of female circumcision dating back more than 2000 years. Although it has been outlawed all across Africa, it is the women themselves who by and large continue the tradition, with the circumcision being performed by the women.

In Genesis 17, the first man who was circumcised was Abraham who was ninety-nine years old and his son Ishmael who was thirteen years old followed by every male in Abraham’s household, including those born in his household or bought from a foreigner.

Some reasons why circumcision is practiced

• It helps diminish the teen pregnancies since they’ll get no pleasure from sex.
• The woman can’t feel sexual pleasure and when it’s time for consummating marriage, the man can tell if she still a virgin because her flower sewed close and we all know it’s not pretty when he penetrates her.
• In other countries, the women often view it as a rite of passage and an ancient tradition fulfilled.
• When money is involved everything is possible. Money is the priority not moral values, not ethics, not health. Circumcision is for money.
• Cancer of the labia is twice as common as cancer of the penis. Removal of the labia would give more protection from cancer.

Some group of people believed that female circumcision decreased risk of HIV. But there are findings that those women who were circumcised were found to be stressed, anxious and aggressive.

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