Janus: God of the New Year
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The Romans Worshipped Tiberinus
i keep saying i'm going to do like a light, fun episode some day, and it keeps not being that. I know, in another myth ja was married to a nymph named camesine. No word on whether this was supposed to be the same person as cardea or some one else but here we go. Camesine and janus had a son named tiberinus, who fell into the tiber. So that's how the tiber got its name, and it's also how tiberinus became the god of the tiber river. He was a very important god in the roman pantheon, too. Some historians believe that at one point in history
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