Halloween

What's so funny? Janus is a real mythological figure if that's why you're laughing...
 
*attempt to link to janus/aristotle pics thwarted by 15+ post rule* Oh well, wikipedia Janus or Aristotle for a good statue pic.

I think it is janus in the episode, though they do look somewhat similar. They would have to make it Janus to tie in with the whole two-faced Janus, two-faced Ethan thing.

By the way, this is my first post (this BB Virgin got deflowered).
 
*comes to Willow Wisp's rescue*

Behold, Janus:

janus.jpg


Behold, Aristotle:

Aristotle.jpg


As you can see, Janus has different hair and Aristotle's head is a bit more squished. Plus, Janus has a Roman face, whereas Aristotle's is Greek. Also, as Janus is a god, the sculptor's would do their best to make all his features coincide with what they believed to be "perfect." There are imperfections with Aristotle. His face isn't symmetrical, his beard isn't as neat, and so on and so forth.

Anyway, I do believe it is Janus. I should just get a screencap to prove it...

Thus endeth the lesson. ^_^ 😉
 
J. Ruby
J. Ruby
G'job. :)
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Willow Wisp
Ha, thanks for posting
I have something really interesting to say about the Janus thing (it is deffo Janus, he had two faces, aristotle only one). I am sure I wrote it down somewhere else, not too long ago..

Edit:
Voila!

itsxpaperdoll said:
I was just watching Halloween, and I've always been wondering, why does Ethan use a statue of Ianus to worship Khaos/Chaos? Seen as he's talking latin, I assume we're thinking in terms of the ancient Romans, however, Chaos is Greek, and it's an it, not a being. It's like what was there shortly after the Big Bang (Or before God created the earth, whatever you like) and from it the first Gods were created. I can imaine that if you're praying to something, you want something to pray to, so I can see the use of the statuette (or bust or whatever it was) but why Ianus? He's quite the opposite of Chaos:

In general, Janus was the patron of concrete and abstract beginnings, such the religion and the Gods themselves, of the world[6] and the human life[7], of new historical ages, economical enterprises. He was also the God of the home entrance (ianua), gates, bridges and covered and arcaded passages (iani).

He was frequently used to symbolize change and transitions such as the progression of past to future, of one condition to another, of one vision to another, the growing up of young people, and of one universe to another. He was also known as the figure representing time because he could see into the past with one face and into the future with the other. Hence, Janus was worshipped at the beginnings of the harvest and planting times, as well as marriages, births and other beginnings. He was representative of the middle ground between barbarity and civilization, rural country and urban cities, and youth and adulthood.
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Also, we owe him the word janitor. (kudos to Wikipedia)

Finally, but that's just me being an Ancient Greek nerd (Stephen Fry would be proud), Xάος (Chaos/Khaos) did NOT mean chaos. It meant just what the Greeks assumed it was, a 'gaping void' empty, dark, but really quite orderly (derived from the word χαίνω (Chainoo/Khainoo), which means to gape, to be open etc.) Misunderstanding or misreading of Ovid (I think) resulted in it's new meaning of disorder (which, in Greek, is in fact ταραχή (Tarachè/Tarakhè))
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R0TFLMA0 at Spike's mini army turning back to children, when the statue was broken.

"I want my mommy!"

And Cordy being chased by a Yeti.


:lmao::lmao::lmao:


Poor SMG, that wig was hideous.::huh1::
 
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