HOE BLY JY STAANDE MET SULKE MAANDE? ‘N VERGELYKING TUSSEN DIE VERWARRENDE OORSPRONG VAN ONS MAANDE EN DIE DUIDELIKHEID VAN DIE SKRIF DIE ROMEINSE OORSPRONG: 6 GODE, 1 DIKTATOR, 1 KEISER EN 4 NOMMERS • Januarie: Janus, Romeinse god van Oorgang en Tyd (Transition) • Februarie: Februus, Romeinse god van Suiwering (Purification) • Maart: Mars, Romeinse god van Oorlog (War) • April: Aphrilis, kenteken maand van Venus, godin van Vrugbaarheid (Fertility) • Mei: Maia, Greek godin van die Aarde (Earth), Romeinse “Bona Dea” (The Good Goddess) • Junie: Juno, Romeinse godin van die Huwelik en Vernuwing (Marriage and Renewal) • Julie: Julius Ceaser, Romeinse Diktator (Roman Dictator) en bekend vir sy “Julian Calendar” • Augustus: Augustus Caesar, eerste Romeinse Keiser (First Roman Ceaser) • September: Septem (Latyns vir 7), 7de maand van die ou Romeinse kalender • Oktober: Octo (Latyns vir 8), 8ste maand van die ou Romeinse kalender • November: Novem (Latyns vir 9), 9de maand van die ou Romeinse kalender • Desember: Decem (Latyns vir 10), 10de maand van die ou Romeinse kalender Artikel: National Geographic, Julie 2018 THE GODS AND GODDESSES ❑ Despite the presence of OF ANCIENT ROME monotheistic ❑ They believed ❑ While the Roman state recognized main gods and religions within that these deities served goddesses ... families worshipping at home also put special the empire, such a role in founding the emphasis on the deities of their choosing. as Judaism and Roman civilization and early Christianity, that they helped shape ❑ The Romans gods were seen as caring little about the Romans honored the events of people’s morality of the people ... their chief concern was being paid multiple deities. lives on a daily basis. tribute through specific rituals. ❖ Ons kan nie die Romeinse oorsprong van ons maand- ❖ Om in so ‘n samelewing as volgelinge van Yahweh te name ontken of wegwens kan oorleef, behoort ons kennis te neem van die moderne nie. Selfs al gebruik ons nie gestaltes van hierdie Romeinse patroon, en dit self hierdie name nie, is ons dan weerstaan met die patroon deel van ‘n samelewing van die Woord van waarin hierdie name en die Yahweh. gees daaragter, deeglik ingeprent is. JANUS, DIE GOD MET TWEE GESIGTE

❑ He was in control of all forms of ❑ He was called the ❑ His two heads meant that he transition – beginnings and endings, doorkeeper of the could see forwards and entrances, exits, and passageways. heavens. backwards and inside and outside simultaneously without ❑ His image may even be found in some modern- turning around. day churches, like the ceiling of Waltham Abbey in Essex, England. Opb 3:8 Ek ken jou werke. Kyk, Ek het voor jou 'n geopende deur gegee, en niemand kan dit sluit nie, want jy het min krag en jy het my woord bewaar en my Naam nie verloën nie. FEBRUUS DIE SUIWERAAR WAT NIE WERKLIK KAN SUIWER NIE

❑ During the purification ❑ These priests, called ❑ Februa is also called ❑ Unlike other festival called Luperci ("brothers of “Lupercalia”, a Roman feasts, the “Februa” Roman the wolf"), sacrificed feast with a strong celebrations of this priests used to beat goats and dogs to sexual undertone feast seem to barren women with a avert evil spirits and and forerunner of have been goatskin thong in order to release health the modern directed to an to make them fertile. and fertility. Valentine’s day. unknown deity.

Hand 17:23 Want terwyl ek rondgegaan en julle plekke van aanbidding aanskou het, het ek ook 'n altaar gevind waarop geskryf is: Aan 'n onbekende magtige. Hom dan wat julle vereer sonder om Hom te ken, verkondig ek aan julle. MARS, VADER VAN ROME MAAR NIE VAN ONS NIE

❑ Mars represented military ❑ Mars was the son of ❑ The Spear of Mars, ❑ In mythology Venus and power and was seen as Jupiter and Juno and which represents Mars was in an father of the Roman people, is believed to have the spear and adulterous relationship due to the fact that he was been born on the 1st of shield of Mars, is that was often the (mythological) father of March, the month that also the symbol for romanticized because Romulus (the “Father” of was previously the first the planet Mars of the symbolic “union” Rome) and Remus. month of the year. and Male gender. between love and war.

Joh 14:27 Vrede laat Ek vir julle na, my vrede gee Ek aan julle; nie soos die wêreld gee, gee Ek aan julle nie. Laat julle hart nie ontsteld word en bang wees nie. APHRILIS, VRUGBAARHEID SONDER DIE VRUG VAN DIE GEES

❑ Aprilis or Aphrilis was sacred ❑ The name Aprilis is related ❑ On one of the ancient to the goddess Venus, her to the Latyn word aperire, feasts of this month Veneralia feast being held ("to open“) and refers to common girls and on the first day, and the the “opening” or blooming prostitutes came to name was probably derived of fruits and flowers and Venus to offer myrtle from Aphrodite, the the opening of the wombs and mint and to ask for equivalent Greek goddess. during this month. beauty, favour, charm and wit, in return. Ps 1:1-3 Geseënd is die man wat nie wandel in die raad van die afvallige nie ... wat behae vind in die Torah van Yahweh ... hy sal wees soos 'n boom wat geplant is by waterstrome, wat sy vrugte gee op sy tyd. MAIORES, OUDSTES SONDER WYSHEID

❑ The name of the month of ❑ Bona Dea was the Roman goddess ❑ In the Catholic tradition May is related to the Greek known for the mysterious, woman- Bona Dea is connected to goddess Maya and her only rituals held in her name. Her “the Celestial Virgin”, Roman equivalent Bona identity was kept secret to men, and “Great Mother of the Dea, but is also a wordplay some guessed that she was identical gods”, and the deification on the Latyn word “Maiores” to the nature-goddess Fauna, who of “the Virgin Mary”, the meaning “elders”. could prophesy the fates of women. mother of Y’shua.

Ps 119:24-30 U getuienisse is my verlustiging, my raadsmanne ... leer my u insettinge ... Laat my die weg van u bevele verstaan, dat ek u wonders kan oordink ... rig my op na u woord ... Ek het die weg van waarheid verkies. JUNO, GEEN GOEIE VOORBEELD VIR DIE JEUG

❑ The name of the month of ❑ Juno was the goddess of Love ❑ Together with Jupiter June is related to the Roman and Marriage (the one and Minerva she was goddess Juno, but is also a supposed to make marriages part of the Capitoline wordplay on the Latyn word “young” again) but not much of Triad, one of many “Iuniores” meaning “young an example for earthly ancient “trinities” that ones” – making this month a marriages as she was both the formed the backdrop of twin of the previous month, wife and sister of Jupiter, the the later Christian meaning “elders”. chief Roman god. doctrine of the Trinity.

Ps 119:9 Waarmee sal die jongeling sy pad suiwer hou? Deur dit te hou na u woord. JULIUS, GROOT MAN VERDWERG DEUR DIE GODE IN SY FAMILIE

❑ Gaius Julius Ceaser was born ❑ The Julius family clan claimed to ❑ The legendary parents of the twin in 100 B.C. and became a be the offspring of Iulus (or brothers Romulus and Remus were dictator and military general Julius), son of Aeneas, Prince of Rhea Silvia and Mars, Roman god who played an important Troy and (mythological) son of of War. Rhea Silvia was later role in the demise of the Venus. According to legend, imprisoned by her uncle and Roman Republic and the rise Aeneas was also a forefather of rescued by, and married to, of the Roman Empire. Romulus en Remus. Tiberinus, the god of the Tiber river. Dan 11:36 En die koning sal doen net wat hy wil en homself verhef en hom groot hou bo enige magtige, en teen die El van die elohiem sal hy wonderbaarlike dinge praat; en hy sal voorspoedig wees, totdat die gramskap ten einde is ... wat vas besluit is, sal uitgevoer word. AUGUSTUS, TYDGENOOT VAN Y’SHUA DIE MESSIAS

❑ (Gaius Octavius Ceaser) ❑ The sixth month was ❑ After the death of Julius Caesar, the Augustus, nephew of Julius, renamed August in his honor Roman Senate recognized him as a first emperor of the Roman in 8 BC. It is said Augustus divinity. He was therefore referred to Empire (27 BC to 14 AD), is chose the month because it as Divus Iulius (“the divine Julius”), regarded as one of the most was the time of several of his and his adopted son Octavius effective and controversial great triumphs, including the called himself Divi filius (“son of the leaders in human history. conquest of Egypt. deified one, son of the god”).

Luk 1:32 Hy (Y’shua) sal groot wees en die Seun van die Allerhoogste genoem word; en Yahweh Elohiem sal aan Hom die troon van sy vader Dawied gee. KERSFEES, MISPLAASTE MIS ❑ The facts are that Xmas is not a Biblical TER ERE VAN DIE MESSIAS feast, 25 Dec was an important date on ❑ The word Christmas ❑ Ironically, the word “mass” ❑ “Mass” may be related the Roman calendar, comes from Middle may come from the Heb. to the old English “messe, not the birth date of English Cristemasse, word “matza” referring to masse”, meaning “to the Messiah and it is which in turn comes Unleavened Bread which send, to let go” as in impossible to put from Old English developed into “Easter” “dismissal”, perhaps with Messiah back into Cristes-messe, and the “Eucharist” and the intended idea that something that He literally meaning were later (confusingly) Messiah was sent to was never part of Christ’s Mass. carried into Christmas. earth. before. Joh 14:15 As julle My lief het, bewaar my gebooie. Joh 15:10 As julle my gebooie bewaar, sal julle in my liefde bly, net soos Ek die gebooie van my Vader bewaar en in sy liefde bly.