Editing Janus (section)

===God of change===
Janus frequently symbolized change and transitions such as the progress of past to future, from one condition to another, from one vision to another, and young people's growth to adulthood. He represented time because he could see into the past with one face and into the future with the other.<ref>Macrobius ''Saturnalia'' I 7, 20 and I 9, 4: [[Antevorta]] and [[Postvorta]] or Porrima are his associates deities in this function.  Ovid ''Fasti'' I 133-40 states his double head means he as ''caelestis ianitor aulae'', gatekeeper of the heavenly mansion, can watch both the eastern and western gate of heaven.</ref> Hence, Janus was worshipped at the beginnings of the harvest and planting times, as well as at marriages, deaths and other beginnings. He represented the middle ground between barbarism and civilization, rural and urban space, youth and adulthood. Having jurisdiction over beginnings Janus had an intrinsic association with omens and auspices.<ref>Ovid ''Fasti'' I 178-82:"Omens are in the beginnings, You turn your fearful ears to the first sound and the augur decides on the grounds of the first bird he has seen. The doors of the temples are open as well as the ears of the gods...and the words have weight".</ref>