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Twins in mythology are often associated with healing. [1] They are also often gifted with the ability of divination or insight into the future. [1] Divine twins in twin mythology are identical to either one or both place of a god. The Feri gods are not separated entities but are unified into one center.
Castor [a] and Pollux [b] (or Polydeuces) [c] are twin half-brothers in Greek and Roman mythology, known together as the Dioscuri or Dioskouroi. [d]Their mother was Leda, but they had different fathers; Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta, while Pollux was the divine son of Zeus, who seduced Leda in the guise of a swan. [2]
The following is a list of the characters in the Ice Age films, mentioned by a name either presented in the films or in any other official material. Each character includes a summary when possible, the voice actor or actors associated with the character, and a description of the character along with any aliases, spouses and the character's species.
The Twin Spawn of Cthulhu: Twin daughters of Cthulhu, imprisoned in the Great Red Spot of the planet Jupiter. They both appear as huge shell-endowed beings, with eight segmented limbs, and six long arms ending with claws, vaguely resembling their "half-sister" Cthylla. Ngirrth'lu The Wolf-Thing, The Stalker in the Snows, He Who Hunts, Na-girt-a-lu
In the majority of the stories where they appear, the Divine Twins rescue the Dawn from a watery peril, a theme that emerged from their role as the solar steeds. [12] [3] During the night, the Divine Twins were said to return to the east in a golden boat, where they traversed a sea [a] to bring back the rising sun each morning. During the day ...
Odin asks what ancient jötun is the eldest of "Ymir's kin", and Vafþrúðnir responds that long, long ago it was Bergelmir, who was Þrúðgelmir's son and Aurgelmir's grandson. In the next stanza Odin asks where Aurgelmir came from so long ago, to which Vafþrúðnir responds that venom dropped from Élivágar , and that these drops grew ...
Sophie and Josh Newman are 15-year-old twins who are working at their summer jobs in The Coffee Cup in San Francisco (Sophie works at The Coffee Cup, Josh works at the bookstore on the other side of the street) when a mysterious man, John Dee, comes into the bookstore for a book, the Codex – or Book of Abraham the Mage.
The Indo-European cosmogony refers to the creation myth of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European mythology.. The comparative analysis of different Indo-European tales has led scholars to reconstruct an original Proto-Indo-European creation myth involving twin brothers, * Manu-('Man') and * Yemo-('Twin'), as the progenitors of the world and mankind, and a hero named * Trito ('Third') who ...