The Divine Twins are youthful horsemen, either gods or demigods, who serve as rescuers and healers in Proto-Indo-European mythology.[1]
Like other Proto-Indo-European divinities, the Divine Twins are not directly attested by archaeological or written materials, but scholars of comparative mythology and Indo-European studies generally agree on the motifs they have reconstructed by way of the comparative method.[2][3]
The DivineTwins are youthful horsemen, either gods or demigods, who serve as rescuers and healers in Proto-Indo-European mythology. Like other Proto-Indo-European...
Japanese islands. Divinetwins Dualistic cosmology Killing of twins in Nigeria Hankoff, Leon D. (1977). "Why The Healing Gods Are Twins". The Yale Journal...
with their twin sisters Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra. In Latin, the twins are also known as the Gemini (literally gender-neutral "twins") or Castores...
pre-Zoroastrian Anāhitā and the Nåŋhaⁱϑiia twins, ultimately derived from the Indo-European theme of the divinetwins as the companions of the Mother Goddess...
Twin Flames Universe (TFU) is an American cult run by Jeff and Shaleia Divine. The group's practices, based on elements of New Age spiritualism regarding...
the Twins have also been identified in the art of the Classic Mayas (200–900 AD). The twins are often portrayed as complementary forces. The Twin motif...
A creation myth (or creation story) is a cultural, religious or traditional myth which describes the earliest beginnings of the present world. Creation...
the Divinetwins, which appears across several Indo-European religions in the form of the Ancient Greek Dioskouroi, the Vedic Aśvins and the twins from...
are Hindu twin gods associated with medicine, health, dawn, and the sciences. In the Rigveda, they are described as youthful divinetwin horsemen, travelling...
crossed, on top of cottage house roofs. Ashvins, Vedic twin deities of medicine Divinetwins, A number of Indo-European mythical brother deities, associated...
Indo-European "marriage drama" of the sun goddess, and she is related to the divinetwins, just as many of these goddesses are. Martin L. West has thus proposed...
the divinetwins in Indo-European religions, and it is thought that in Proto-Indo-European times, swans were a solar symbol associated with the divine twins...
unable to feed him, Themis, the goddess of divine law, fed him nectar and ambrosia. Upon tasting the divine food, the child broke free of the bands fastened...
theory that the tribal name Vandal reflects worship of Aurvandil or the DivineTwins, possibly involving an origin myth that the Vandalic kings were descended...
Izanagi (イザナギ/伊邪那岐/伊弉諾) or Izanaki (イザナキ), formally referred to with a divine honorific as Izanagi-no-Mikoto (伊邪那岐命/伊弉諾尊, meaning "He-who-invites" or the...
Roman twins usually follow certain symbolic traditions, depending on the legend they follow: they either show a shepherd, the she-wolf, the twins under...
mentions a divine pair of twins called the Alcis worshipped by the Naharvali, whom he compares to the Roman twin horsemen Castor and Pollux. These twins can...
, Zawiasa D. (2004). "Palici – the Sicilian Twin Brothers and the Indo- European Myth about DivineTwins". In: Živa Antika [Antiquité Vivante] 54(1–2)...
Yama's twin sister in the Samhita texts. In the Purushamedha rite in the Shatapatha Brahmana, a mother of twins is sacrificed to Yami, while twins are offered...
Artemis is the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. In most accounts, the twins are the products of an extramarital liaison. For this...
Jimaguas in Latin America) is the name of an Orisha representing a pair of divinetwins in the Yoruba religion of the Yoruba people (originating from Yorubaland...
in the video game DKO (Divine Knockout). Izanami is a recurring important character in the Megami Tensei video game series. Twins in mythology Shinto in...
war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power. Originally worshiped in Sumer, she was known by...
sets of brother may be reflexes of the Indo-European mytheme of the Divinetwins. Pales appears in pastoral plays of the 16th and 17th centuries, commonly...
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