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Mouse tracks lead to a den behind a small sapling. Mice are active all winter, often tunneling beneath the snow.
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‘Frost in the tipi’ (again). The “moon of frost in the tipi” was how the Sioux people described the first month of their year, when it was bitterly cold on the Great Plains.
Our own “January” honors Janus, the Roman god of gates and doors. Because we must pass through a door to reach a new place, Janus became the god of beginnings, and of the Roman month “Januarius,” the “month of Janus.” For the Etruscans, whose civilization was overthrown by the Romans, the word “jauna” meant “door.”
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