In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Janus is the god of beginnings and transitions, thence also of gates, doors, doorways, endings and time. He is usually a two-faced god since he looks to the future and the past. The Romans dedicated the month of January to Janus.
The etymologies proposed by the ancient fall into three categories: each bears implications about the nature of the god.
The first is based on 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 the initial function of Janus suffices to explain his place at the origin of time.
Another etymology proposed by Nigidius Figulus is related by Macrobius: Ianus would be both Apollo and Diana Iana, by the addition of a D for the sake of euphony. This explanation has been accepted by A. B. Cook and J. G. Frazer. It supports all the assimilation of Janus to the bright sky, the sun and the moon. It supposes a former *Dianus, formed on *dia- < *dy-eð(2) from Indo-European root *dey- shine represented in Latin by dies day, Diovis and Iuppiter. However the form Dianus postulated by Nigidius is not attested.
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In an unnamed nation in an unspecified period of time, a new law which is intended give more peace to the people by strictly upholding morality only ends up justifying people to take matters into their own hands. New organizations who label themselves "the guardian of moral values" emerge and will easily attack somebody they consider immoral. Citizens of the country are divided into two groups: those that grow more violent and those who hope that the myth about the birth of a person who will lead the nation toward the light will soon come true. A police detective named Eros investigates the death of five men who were burnt alive by a mob of pedestrians after someone screamed 'thief!' at them at a bus station. While his superior orders him to lay off the "insoluble" case, Eros discovers there's a more sinister motive behind the killing than just a simple vigilantism. Meanwhile, a journalist named Janus is having the lowest time of his life. His wife divorces him and his boss fires him for a same reason. He' suffering from narcolepsy which makes him falls into a deep sleep every time he experiences a sudden emotional reaction such as anger, fear, or joy. After unsuccessfully trying to interview the wife of one of the deceased men, the woman leaves him a message which contains a dangerous secret which may become the cause of the killing. Not knowing the meaning of the message, Janus tells his friends about it. But everybody he talks to soon dies mysteriously. Janus is also pursued by some powerful people who knows about the value of the secret that Janus holds. Eros' investigation and Janus' dangerous knowledge soon lead the two into a labyrinth of conspiracies and murders which involves not only mortal forces as they unknowingly become major players of the making of the figure that the country has been waiting for.
Keywords: burn-victim, bus, curse, death, decapitation, gay-character, gay-interest, ghost, gore, indonesia
You know the secret. Now you have to die.
A fantasy you'd wish never come true.
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The hero of our story is "Axon Rey" a heavily decorated war hero and former tactical police officer who has been recruited by a covert government organization to fight enemies of the state. Schooled in the martial arts as well as in the latest high tech weapons, Rey, now code-named "Sphinx", finds himself an elite member of the sanction division of SATO (State Anti-Terrorist Organization), a clandestine organization of assassins under the direct control of SIN (State Intelligence Network). During his last assassination mission Sphinx has failed. Normally the state deals with such failures easily; it executes the executioner. Since Sphinx is the top assassin, his controller, Janus, decides not to eliminate him immediately. He sends him to a rehabilitation island called "Gulag 7". Sphinx has to face 5 opponents - other government operatives who have been sent to the island for various reasons. A refusal to fight means death. After defeating his last opponent, he finds himself in a barracks lined with jail cells. In one of the cells, he finds Nina, his former love he had presumed lost forever. Sphinx learns from Nina that the Director of the organization has faked her death. The state invested a lot to train Sphinx to be a perfect killing machine. The Director couldn't afford his top assassin to be distracted by anything; particularly not by love. The two lovers still hope that they can escape from their past and start a new life together. But soon they are surrounded by soldiers and Janus. Janus confirms to Sphinx that faking Nina's death was the Director's idea. Together they formulate a plot to assassinate the Director - the outcome of which will decide who wields the ultimate force.
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Hercules and Deianeira go in search of fire to save the world from cold. All the world's fire are fast going out. Hercules' father, Zeus, is on hand to help (and sometime hinder) the two.
Keywords: action-hero, adventure-hero, ambush, battle, battlefield, brawl, character-name-in-title, combat, dark-fantasy, demi-god
We're touching down on Janus
Last of the dying planets
Her buried wealth and splendor
Had never been surrendered
For in these trying times
The flags of war waved high
On and on and on
Gone and gone and gone
As the fields of fire burned
No one seemed concerned
The future was consumed
And where destinies collide
Can anything survive
I stand inside the ruins
Beneath the dust of Janus
The seeds of war were planted
They fought against all reason
Burning the flags of freedom
And as their hatred spread Like rivers bloody red flowed
On and on and on
Gone and gone and gone
I too was taken cold
By the spirit and the soul
In a land of no one left
Still in silence and in death
A planet put to rest
She touches and she goes
So if we should survive
If all our worlds collide
Exploding in the light
Are we these islands of the sun
Old before we're young
Gone before we're done
Come a little closer to see the walls you're breaking down.
Come a little closer to see the claws you're breaking out.
I don't wanna see you drown.
I don't wanna see you drown.
All of my life I've been pulling you out of the water.
Oh, the waves keep you under.
Tonight tonight could be the greatest night of all your life.
Tonight tonight could be the greatest night of all your life.
Put away your potion. Put away your potion
You're just a man who's cursed with doubt
Put away your potion, put away your potion.
You are the plague of man, but you are the found.
All of my life I've been pulling you out of the water.
Oh, the waves keep you under.
Tonight tonight could be the greatest night of all your life.
Tonight tonight could be the greatest night of all your life.
Tonight tonight could be the greatest night of all your life.
VERSE 1.
Janus taking both his sides
In opposite directions
His doorways always open
To take my way
It leaves me frightened
So I stay behind him
Then I hear his voice and
Everything is clear
PRE-CHORUS 1.
One says yes and the other says no
This one stops and the other says go
CHORUS 1.
If only you knew
The love that I could
Just let me decide
I can change your world
When my mind's made up
Then you might well see
This blindfold's too cruel
I was here to be freed
VERSE 2.
Taking tiny steps to move on forward
The mirror cracks and almost breaks my speed
If there's knocking on the door
I'll answer
Cos after all he holds me very dear
PRE-CHORUS 2.
One says yes and the other says no
This one stops and the other says go
CHORUS 2.
If only you knew
The love that I could
Just let me decide
I can change your world
When my mind's made up
Then you might well see
This blindfold's too cruel
I was here to be freed
PRE-CHORUS 3.
One says yes and the other says no
This one stops and the other says go
One says yes and the other says no
This one stops and the other says go
BRIDGE/BREAKDOWN
Take tiny little steps to move on forward
Shards of glass on the bottoms of my feet
The mirror cracks and it breaks my speed
If there's knocking on the door