Salutation Happy & Prosperous New Year Good Beginnings
	Ganesha, deity of beginnings
Springing life, ripening harvests, and cycling stars gave rise to magnificent poetry and fine arts seeking to encapsulate the essence of TIME. In another overview are shown landscapes related to chronology, chronic,  ileus, iliac and other terms often used in medicine.
The winds of fate challenge fortune
January
Janus, a deity of "All Beginnings"
In timeless Paradise, Biblical and Olympic heroes coexist in peace.

For Romans, the summit or zenith of each year was the festivity of SATRUNalia, a week long celebration ending December 24th.

Regarding December 25th, the birthday of Mithra, Christian church leaders adopted this day as the Nativity or "Navidad" of Christ. The object was to obliterate the popularity of Mithraism.

There is a Mithraic shrine under the St. Clemens Basilica in Rome

The last day of DECEMBER closes an ANNUAL yearly CHRONOLOGY or CALENDar or cycle. The first day of JANUARY opens a new CALENDar with JOVIAL celebrations to JOVE and dedicated to JANUS and SATURN.

Arch of Janus

Mythology holds that as Chronos was escaping a prophecy of doom, he became LATENT among LATIN people and strived to SATURate them with abundance. This is how Chronos acquired the name SATURn.

Saturn or Chronos

SATURN was welcomed to LATIUM by JANUS and JANA who were the custodians of the universe. Ovid said: "Everything depends on the Beginning". Since then, Europeans uphold the tradition that events during January 1st set a pattern for the remainder of the year. "Happy New Year (day)" is now the customary "good day" salutation.

In this spirit, the effigy of JANUs stood at doorways and entrances and was invoked each morning before prayers were said to other Gods. Today, politeness calls for a matutine salutation such as "good morning" or "good day" as a prelude to any discourse.

During peace, the doors of the temple of JANUS or IANUA (the Roman Treasury) were closed. During war, the gates were kept open (perhaps  the Romans knew well the unpredictable cost of war).

The link of endings with beginnings is amalgamated in the Saturn Janus pair. Artists represented them as bi-frons figures, one face was that of Rex Sacrorum or Janus and the other of Saturn, Eon or Chronos. One looked forward - the other gazed at the past.

Time whether as Shiva or Saturn creates and destroys all.

Many fine artists depict Saturn with a SCythe to stress his link with ripened grains ready for harvest. In any case, whether called "Father Time", Chronos or Saturn, the cycles of  nature and their links with time are exceedingly complex as are the ideas conveyed by these deities.

Sidereal Time		Mechanical Time