- Greco-Roman Zodiac: Gemini; mutable, air, ruler
- Zodiacal associations:
- animal is Twins (Gemini); stone, pearl or moonstone
- Roman Zodiacal associations:
- animal is Magpie, hybrids; plant, orchid, hybrids; gem, Tourmaline
- color, Orange; symbol, Twins
- Amerindian associations:
- animal is Deer; plant, Yarrow; mineral, Moss Agate; colors, Green and White
- Chinese animal associations are Snake, Monkey, Rat
- Eck-Vidya associations - Sahak, Moonstone, June, Kuritee, Years of the Strange Storms
4.6.4.1 Western Zodiac: Gemini (Walker 290-291)
- Egyptian symbol for Gemini was a man and a woman with joined hands (Budge, GE)
- in Sanskrit, they were Mithuna and Maithuna, the Lovers
- to Romans, they were god Apollo coupled with his sister Diana (Artemis)
- to Babylonians, they were Mastabagalgal, twins of indefinite gender
- Persians and Greeks called them Dopatkar and Didumoi, Twins
- the male twins, as Castor and Pollux, the Dioscuri
- may have been patriarchal versions of earlier androgynous pairs
- older myths - gods and goddesses were twins as well as spouses
- even mother-child dyads
- mother, sister, bride of the god, all embodied in Triple Goddess
- astrological designations usually connect them with Romulus and Remus
- alleged founders of Rome, and twin foster-sons to Sabine she-wolf
- originally some doubt to their gender
- some said real founder of Rome to be, of Romulan gens, a woman named Rhone
- either a Greek, or a fugitive from fallen Troy
- Syracrusan historian Callias (ca 300 AD) supposed
- she was the wife of legendary Sabine king Talinus
- she was called the Amazonian daughter of Mars (2nd century BC)
- others said she was the wife of Aeneas, the "other" founder of Rome according to a different legend
- just as pre-Roman matriarchs were apotheosized as Goddesses
- male Romulus apotheosized as god Quininus
- appeared in roadway vision to his followers exactly as Jesus in the Pauline legend
- bears suggestive resemblance to an older Roman myth (Grant)
- seems clear that Rome developed out of the Sabine matriarchate
- producing the Roman clan
- later stories held that followers were forced to steal Sabine wives
- to have sanguis ac genus, the holy blood of the race, embodied
- transmitted only by the women (Dumézil)
- early Roman clans named for founding mother, Sabine-style
- * these tribal matriarchs assimilated into spinning Fortunae (Fate-Goddesses)
- whose only duty was to spin (Gage)
- androgynous view makes more sense - union of opposites as yin-yang
- Gemini people said to be:
- dualistic in interests and tastes, as if inhabited by two personalities
- restless, cleverness, inventiveness qualities
- impatience, tendency to boredom
- Gemini influenced by Mercury, becomes "mercurial" in its union of opposites
- Gemini governs arts and sciences, covering different kinds of knowledge
4.6.4.2 Western Planet Associations: Mercury (Walker 214)
- Mercury (see Bear, Virgo)
4.6 Deer - Cornplanting Moon
