This speculation was repeated by Volney in his "Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires" (1791), in which he noted the phonetic similarity between the names "Ganesha" and "Janus" and both gods' association with beginnings; and by Moor in "The Hindu Pantheon" (1810). Moor expanded the claims of an association based on functional grounds, noting that Janus, like Ganesha, was invoked at the beginning of undertakings, a "liminal" god who was the guardian of gates. Moor made various other speculations on the connection between Janus and Ganesha. These fanciful connections proposed by early Indologists no longer appear in modern academic reviews of Ganesha's history.