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Indiana Alive!'s avatar

A brilliantly put together and very thought provoking observation! I felt a shift in my consciousness reading what you realised and made real for me, too!!

I know that the name Remus, like a mirror, reflects the name Sumer and Lati, Ital... and Roma/Amor city of Love....like many other 'bostrophaedoned' names pour forth their secrets to us by inverting them. This further reflection that yiu have shared adds additional depth to the realisation of what "twins" are all about.

A sacred 'birth-right', the acknowledging of the hidden one who fed and nurtured the fetus inside the mother, has been ignored by the modern West. Placentas are thrown away and not ever thought about again.

Living in Africa for over 60 years, I had heard of the tribes burying placentas under a newly planted tree that eventually the 'other one' would join in death to be buried alongside... both would then nourish the tree as it grew to full size! I had read that Native American Indigenous women of certain tribes eat the placenta for strength after giving birth. You have shown me so much more! Thank you! Big appreciation.

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Katriena Emmanuel's avatar

Love this! Great connections symbolically. It reminded me of the Greek myth about soulmates once being a whole then split by Zeus as punishment to forever be searching for their missing half

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Marybeth Roden's avatar

Love this! Such rich material! On a slightly different but possibly related note, made me think of “The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” by Julian Jaynes.

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Laura Reina's avatar

This really resonated with my Gemini moon! In my latest fiction project, there are several twins in one family. Now I'm understanding why!

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Jordaan Danielle's avatar

Substack is brilliant at bringing excellent pieces of writing like this to my attention exactly when I need it. In astrology, I have the Sun and Venus in Gemini, both in the 12th house of dreams and the subconscious. As I’ve been returning to a love for creative journaling, I started wondering if these placements indicate a spirit twin that lives in the realm of dreams, my other half who stayed within the veil as I crossed into the waking world at birth. I think of her as a muse of sorts. Sometimes I feel like I remembered her into being more than creating her from my imagination. The mythos of this concept is beautifully and comfortingly validated by the myths presented in this article.

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Henry Solospiritus's avatar

Excellent!

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Cory Panshin's avatar

Both Elvis Presley and Philip K. Dick had twins who died. There’s a powerful resonance here to which the placenta can only be secondary,

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Marybeth Roden's avatar

Yes! I always thought about Elvis’s twin. If he had lived, he would have been the older brother. Elvis became known as “the King.” If his had been a royal/dynastic birth think of the implications for the history of that family. I always wondered about the psychological effect that had on Elvis.

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