Gemini and the Sacred

Gemini and the Sacred

Twins and Twinship in Religion and Mythology

Patton, Professor Kimberley C.

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

05/2024

552

Mole

Inglês

9781350320413

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List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. A Mirror: Reflecting on Gemini and the Sacred, Kimberley C. Patton, Harvard Divinity School, USA
Part I: Twins in African and the African Diaspora
2. The Code of Twins: Ibeji in Yoruba Cosmology, Ritual, and Iconography, Jacob Kehinde Olupona
3. Twins: Welcome and Unwelcome Danglers in Africa, Pashington Obeng
4. Marasa Elou: Twins and Uncanny Children in Haitian Vodou, Adam Michael McGee
Part II: Hero-Twins in the Americas
5. Twins in Native American Mythologies: Relational Transformation, John Grim
6. Junajpu and XB'alamkiej: The Maya Hero Twins of the Popol Wuj, Vincent James Stanzione
Part III: South Asian Legacies
7. Wars within the Womb, Wendy Doniger
8. Twins in Hindu Mythology and Everyday Life: In the California Diaspora, Vijaya Nagarajan
Part IV: Twins in the Ancient Mediterranean
9. Entangled Bodies: Rethinking Twins and Double Images in the Prehistoric Mediterranean, Lauren Talalay
10. Achilles and Patroklos: As Models for the Twinning of Identity, Gregory Nagy
11. Achilles and Patroclus as Indo-European Twins: Homer's Take, Douglas Frame
12. Cosmas and Damian: Synergistic Brother Healers, James C. Skedros
Part V: Divine Twinship in the Ancient Near East and Eastern Christianity
13. Primordial Twins in Ancient Iranian Myth Prods, Oktor Skjaervo
14. Didymos Judas Thomas: The Twin Brother of Jesus, Gregory J. Riley
15. The Divine Double in Late Antiquity, Charles M. Stang
Part VI: Powerful Twins in the Archaeology of Myth
16. O?inn's Twin Ravens, Huginn and Muninn, Stephen A. Mitchell
17. Twinning and Pairing: Rethinking Number in the Roman Provincial Religious Imagery of Gallia and Britannia, Miranda Aldhouse-Green
18. Yoking the Winds: The Tears of Xanthos and Balios, Kimberley C. Patton
Part VII: Epilogue
19. Epilogue: Dialogue, Joseph O. Garrity and Philip S. Garrity
Index
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folklore; identical; spirituality; cosmology