Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
God of Both Ways
They say that the god of the witches has two faces.
Bifrons, they call him: old Two-Face.
Ianiformis, they call him: shaped like Ianus, the old Roman god of Time.
Two faces, fore and aft. But of course what's before and what's behind is all a matter of where you're standing, isn't it?
For this, Margaret Murray named him Dianus = Ianus, lord of beginnings and endings, like the month that bears his name.
Two faces, and when you arrive at the sabbat, you greet him with a kiss on both sets of lips.
He sees both past and future, what was and what is to be. That makes him god of time, and god of history. He wears the form of a man because in humanity the animal world confronts duration.
In every argument, he sees both sides, uniting both in himself. This makes him Great Arbiter of All Disputes, with Arbiter numbered among his names.
Coming and going, loving and hating, living and dying. Good and evil. Whenever you have to choose one or the other, he takes both.
They say that the god of the witches wears two faces.
When you greet him, you kiss them both.
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