The Garden of Cyrus

...just as much as the mystical statue original: statua of Janus Janus: the two-faced Roman god of beginnings and transitions; his fingers were often depicted in positions representing the number 365, the days of the year did through the arrangement original: "language" of his fingers. Since the ancients were so precise regarding the number of his horses, the strings of his harp, and the rays around his head—all of which represented the celestial spheres original: "orbs of Heaven", the seasons, and the months of the year—ingenious paganism original: "witty idolatry" would surely not be unimaginative original: "flat" in its other symbolic assignments original: "appropriations".