Family
The family of Janus
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 12
Kinship in an account 12
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (child) Caelus Roman god of the sky
- child of (mother) Entoria figure in Roman mythology
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child of (mother) Hecate Greek goddess -
child of (child) Saturn god in ancient Roman mythology -
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parent of (father) Canens Roman personification of song - parent of (child) Crano
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parent of (father) Fontus water deity -
partner of (spouse) Juturna goddess of fountains, wells and springs, and the mother of Fontus by Janus - partner of (spouse) Venilia Roman goddess of sea winds
- sibling of Faustus son of Saturn and Entoria and brother of Janus in Roman mythology
- sibling of Felix son of Saturn and Entoria and brother of Janus in Roman mythology
- sibling of Hymnus son of Saturn and Entoria and brother of Janus in Roman mythology
Connections
How Janus connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 1
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Attribute 8
What this means
A domain, symbol or epithet as sources record it.
Does not imply an exclusive domain · the same association in every account
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- is associated with beginning
- is associated with corridor
- is associated with doorway
- is associated with dualism philosophical or religious belief in two fundamental substances or principles, which often oppose each other
- is associated with gate
- is associated with sowing
- is associated with time
- is associated with transition
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
20 statements on this record
- 7 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 13 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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The Olympians and their Roman equivalents, the mystery cults, and the poets whose accounts disagree.