Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

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ei-

PIE base ‘to go’.

Other derivatives include January, janitor, initial, itinerary, commence, circuit, exit, obituary, and Hinayana, Mahayana, from Sanskrit yānam ‘way’.

[Pokorny ei-, pp.  293–297.]

Janus

We can see that the ancients were intuitively aware that the Principle of Unity is the universal generating power from Janus, one of the oldest gods in the Roman pantheon, and a two-faced god appeared repeatedly in Babylonian art. As the god of beginnings, Janus has given his name to January, at the beginning of the year.