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JANUARY

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 155 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: INV-JED
JANUARY , the first month in the
modern
  calendar, consisting of thirty-one days. The name (Lat.
Januarius
 ) is derived from the two-faced Roman god Janus, to whom the month was dedicated. As doorkeeper of heaven, as looking both into the past and the future, and as being essentially the deity who busied himself with the beginnings of all enterprises, he was appropriately made guardian of the fortunes of the new year. The
consecration
  of the month took place by an offering of
meal
 ,
salt
 ,
frankincense
  and wine, each of which was new. The Anglo-
Saxons
  called January Wulfmonath, in allusion to the fact that hunger then made the wolves bold enough to come into the villages. The
principal
  festivals of the month are: New Year's Day; Feast of the
Circumcision
 ; Epiphany; Twelfth-Day; and Conversion of St Paul (see CALENDAR).


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