Guy Palpatine Day?
Jan. 1st, 2006 03:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sunnyskywalkerIt occurred to me as I was watching the ball drop on TV that Janus would be a good first name for Palpatine.
Janus is the double-faced Roman god of doors and of endings and beginnings. One face looks forward, one backward. (The month of January is named after him.) The gates of his temple were kept closed in times of peace and open in times of war, and the Roman legionaries went to war through his portal on the Forum.
Now, how perfect is this for a literally two-faced Sith Lord who has suspiciously Roman-looking guards, creates an army, starts a war, and orchestrates the end of the Old Republic and the beginning of the Empire?
Then I got to thinking about holidays in general, and what sort of holidays Sith Lords could inspire. In England, they have Guy Fawkes Day. Guy Fawkes (and others) tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament, so now every November 5 people burn him in effigy. I think they're on to something. Just think: in the Star Wars universe, they have Palpatine, who dissolved the Senate. They could celebrate the day he died by throwing little Palpy dolls into flaming tubes! Wouldn't that be fabulous?
And what about the Jedi younglings? Do they slice paper-mache Mauls with their training sabers to get at candy once a year? Why not?
Happy New Year, everyone!
Janus is the double-faced Roman god of doors and of endings and beginnings. One face looks forward, one backward. (The month of January is named after him.) The gates of his temple were kept closed in times of peace and open in times of war, and the Roman legionaries went to war through his portal on the Forum.
Now, how perfect is this for a literally two-faced Sith Lord who has suspiciously Roman-looking guards, creates an army, starts a war, and orchestrates the end of the Old Republic and the beginning of the Empire?
Then I got to thinking about holidays in general, and what sort of holidays Sith Lords could inspire. In England, they have Guy Fawkes Day. Guy Fawkes (and others) tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament, so now every November 5 people burn him in effigy. I think they're on to something. Just think: in the Star Wars universe, they have Palpatine, who dissolved the Senate. They could celebrate the day he died by throwing little Palpy dolls into flaming tubes! Wouldn't that be fabulous?
And what about the Jedi younglings? Do they slice paper-mache Mauls with their training sabers to get at candy once a year? Why not?
Happy New Year, everyone!