Dioscuri
Americanplural noun
plural noun
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In Hawaii twins are regarded as superior to ordinary mortals both in mind and body; hence it was natural to conceive of a pair of divine twins, like the Dioscuri in Greek mythology.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Sir James George Frazer
Like her brothers, the Dioscuri, she was a patron deity of sailors.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
In the tutelary gods of the sea-loving nation of the Phenicians the Greeks recognised and worshipped the deities favourable to mariners, and from this side they combined them with their own Dioscuri.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
The Dioscuri were specially reverenced among people of Dorian race, and were said to have reigned at Sparta, where also they were buried.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
The faces present the heads of the princes, in characteristic and individual portraits; the reverses exhibit Heracles, Athena, Apollo with a crown of rays, the Dioscuri on horseback, lance in hand.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker
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