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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 ...
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. These divine twins can function alone in one body, either functioning as a male or as male and female as they desire. Divine twins represent a polarity in the world.
Like the Greek Dioscuri Castor and Pollux, they are reflexes of a common Indo-European mytheme, the Divine Twins. [3] Ašvieniai are represented as pulling a carriage of Saulė (the Sun) through the sky. [1] Ašvieniai, depicted as žirgeliai or little horses, are common motifs on Lithuanian rooftops, [1] [4] placed for protection of the house. [5]
Articles related to the divine twins, youthful horsemen, either gods or demigods, who serve as rescuers and healers in Proto-Indo-European mythology. Subcategories This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total.
In Nippur in the Old Babylonian period Lugal-irra and Meslamta-ea were regarded as the divine doorkeepers of the temple of Nuska, where they received offerings. [43] The Nippur Compendium , known from copies from the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods and later, [ 57 ] lists them among the deities venerated in the local temple of Nergal ...
The Ashvins are an instance of the Indo-European divine horse twins. [5] [12] [13] Reflexes in other Indo-European religions include the Lithuanian Ašvieniai, the Latvian Dieva Dēli, the Greek Castor and Pollux; and possibly the English Hengist and Horsa, and the Welsh Bran and Manawydan.
See: Twins in mythology. Aegyptus and Danaus ; Aeolus and Boeotus ; Agenor and Belus ; Amphion and Zethus ; Apollo and Artemis/Diana ; Arsu and Azizos ; Ascalaphus and Ialmenus ; Atreus and Thyestes ; Ashvins ; Ašvieniai divine twins ; Cassandra and Helenus ; Castor and Pollux
Greek rhetorician and grammar Athenaeus of Naucratis, in his work Deipnosophistae, Book II, cited that poet Ibycus, in his Melodies, described twins Eurytus and Cteatus as "λευκίππους κόρους" ("white-horsed youths") and said they were born from a silver egg, [3] - a story that recalls the myth of Greek divine twins Castor and ...