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    mytheme, the Divine Twins. Ašvieniai are represented as pulling a carriage of Saulė (the Sun) through the sky. Ašvieniai, depicted as žirgeliai or little...
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    for the horse, *H1éḱwos, from which also descends the Lithuanian name Ašvieniai. In the Rigveda, the Ashvins are always referred to in the dual, without...
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    well-accepted reflexes of the Divine Twins, the Vedic Aśvins and the Lithuanian Ašvieniai, are linguistic cognates ultimately deriving from the Proto-Indo-European...
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    practiced today. Similarly Ašvieniai are divine twins in the Lithuanian mythology, counterparts of Vedic Ashvins. The Ašvieniai are represented as pulling...
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  • twins in Vedic mythology (or Ashveens) Asvins (film), a 2023 Indian film Ašvieniai, divine twins in Lithuanian mythology Ashwin (given name), including a...
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    as the effulgent Vedic brother-horsemen called the Ashvins, Lithuanian Ašvieniai, and possibly Germanic Alcis. The Etruscans venerated the twins as Kastur...
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  • associated with the oak tree. Dievo sūneliai (the "sons of Dievas") – Ašvieniai, pulling the carriage of Saulė (the Sun) through the sky. Like the Greek...
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  • Ascalaphus and Ialmenus (Greek) Atreus and Thyestes (Greek) Ashvins (Hindu) Ašvieniai divine twins (Lithuanian) Cassandra and Helenus (Greek) Castor and Pollux...
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  • Lithuanian expression Dievo sūneliai ('sons of Dievas'), referring to the Ašvieniai, with the Vedic divó nápātā ('grandsons of Dyaús'), attached to the Aśvins...
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  • personages from Lithuanian myths, legends, folklore, and fairy-tales. Ašvieniai, the divine twins who pulled the chariot of the Sun (the Vedic Hindu Ashwins)...
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    are the "sons of Dyaús", the sky-god; the Lithuanian Dievo sūneliai (Ašvieniai) are the "sons of the God" (Dievas); and the Latvian Dieva dēli are likewise...
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    venerated by the Naharvali, a Germanic people described by Tacitus in 1 AD Ašvieniai. Lithuanian brother horse deities, also used crossed, on top of cottage...
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  • another probable reflex of the Divine Twins (along with the Ashvins, Ašvieniai, and Dieva Dēli). Despite the lack of pictorial representation, the Roman...
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