Janus, "the one by whom all things were introduced into life," was figured as two-faced, or time past, and time to come, and Janus was the "I was," the "I am," and the "I shall be".[156] As the "God of the Beginning," Janus is clearly connected with the word _genesis_; Juno was the goddess who presided over childbirth, and to their names may be traced the words _generate_, _genus_, _genital_, and the like. Just as _Jan_uary is the first or opening month of the year, so _June_,[157] French _Juin_, was the first or opening month of the ancient calendar. It was fabled that Janus daily threw open the gate of day whence _janua_ was the Latin for a gate, and _janitor_ means a keeper of the gate. All men were supposed to be under the safeguard of Janus, and all women under that of Juno, whence the guardian spirit of a man was termed his _genius_ and that of a woman her _juno_. The words _genius_ and _genie_ are evidently cognate with the Arabian _jinn_, meaning a spirit. In Ireland the fairies or "good people" are known as the "gentry"; as the giver of all increase Juno may be responsible for the word _generous_, and Janus the Beginning or Leader is presumably allied to _General_. Occasionally the two faces of Janus were represented as respectively old and young, a symbol obviously of time past and present, time and _change_, the ancient of days and the _junior_ or _jeun_. In Irish _sen_ meant _senile_. It is taught by the mothers of Europe that at Yule-Tide the Senile All Bounty wanders around bestowing gifts, and St. Nicholas, or Father Christmas, is in some respects the same as the Wandering Jew of mediæval tradition. The earliest mention of the Everlasting Jew occurs in the chronicles of the Abbey of St. Albans,[158] and is probably a faint memory of the original St. Alban or All Bounty. It was said that this mysterious Wanderer "had a little child on his arm," and was an eye-witness of the crucifixion of Christ. Varied mythical appearances of the Everlasting Jew are recorded, and his name is variously stated as Joseph, and as Elijah. Joseph is radically _Jo_, Elijah is _Holy Jah_, whence it may follow, that "Jew" should be spelled "Jou," and that the Wandering or Everlasting Jew may be equated with the Sunshine or the Heavenly Joy. [Illustration: FIG. 29.--The Three Divine Heads within a single triangle. From an Italian Wood Engraving of the XV. cent. From _Christian Iconography_ (Didron).]