[tied] Re: Creation > IE Astronomy

The Divine Twins are indeed IE, but they are usually identified as the
Morning- and Evening- Stars -- i.e., Venus.

There is lots of inconsistent folklore here, only some of which got
fully mythologized in the various literary traditions.

--- In cybalist@..., cas111jd@... wrote:
> I don't know enough about astronomy to ascertain how visible Mercury
> might be on the northern European plain. However, the divine twins
> were, IMO, known throughout the IE mythologies: Castor and
Polydeuces
> and also Zethus and Amphion in Greece, the Asvins in India, the
> Nasatiyas to the Mitanni, Lithuanian Asviniai, Lettish Zirgeliai or
> Dievas deli ('sons of Dievs'). I believe Romulus and Remus and the
> Anglo-Saxon Hengst and Horsa are also versions of them. This near
pan-
> IE identity may go all the way back to proto-IE times. It seems to
me
> that the early IE peoples would have had fairly clear views of both
> the rising and setting Mercuries on the steppes.