μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Twin gods.

Mythological motifs. · Gods. · The gods in general. · Origin of the gods. · view the constellation · filed as A116

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Greek Fox 26
  • Armenian Ananikian 40
  • Hindu Keith 30f. (Lettish also mentioned). – Zuñi: Alexander N. Am. 188
  • general *Harris Twins, Boanerges, Picus who is also Zeus
  • general Krappe Etudes de mythologie 137ff.
  • general Güntert Weltkönig 253ff.
  • general S. Eitrem Die göttlichen Zwillinge bei den Griechen (Christiania 1902)
  • general H. Grégoire Saints jumeaux et dieux cavaliers (Paris 1905)
  • general J.R. Harris The Dioscuri in the Christian Legends (London 1903)
  • general Krappe The Classical Journal XVIII (1923) 502ff.
  • general Zeitschrift für Ethnologie LXVI (1929) 187ff.
  • general "Les dieux jumeaux dans la religion germanique" Acta Philologica Scandinavica (1930)
  • general Review of Religion (1944) 123ff.
  • general Revue Celtique XLIX (1932) 96ff
  • general P. Saintyves, "Les Jumeaux, dans l'ethnographie et la mythologie," Revue Anthrop. XXXV (1925) 54–59

…and 4 more.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of the gods.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Twin gods – one mortal, other immortal Twin goddesses (or trinity of goddesses)
Filed beside it
Parents of the gods Birth of gods Totemistic gods. Gods which have animal associations; e.g., Athena with the owl, Venus with the sparrow Gods born from object Emergence of deity Mortals become gods Self-created deity Origin of gods – miscellaneous

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