List of Images 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: Ìbejì in Yorùbá Cosmology, Ritual, and Iconography, Jacob Kéhìndé Olúpònà 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 Skjærvø 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. Óðinn'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.