Asvins

The Asvins, the "Horsemen" or fleet outriders of the dawn, are the first rays of sunrise, "Lords of Lustre."

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885

Their offspring were the Asvins, who are more or less analogous in their helpful character to Castor and Pollux.

Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878

'To my mind,' says our author, 'there is no chapter in mythology in which we can so clearly read the transition of an auroral myth of the Veda into an epic chapter of Greece as in the chapter of Saranyu (or Surama) and the Asvins, ending in the chapter of Helena and her brothers, the

Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878

They (the Asvins) are, in fact, darkness and light; and _therefore_, I understand, Saranyu, who is Night, and not an

Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878

However, Night in Mr. Max Muller's system 'has just got to be' Dawn, a position proved thus: 'Yaska makes this clear by saying that the time of the Asvins, sons of Saranyu, is after midnight,' but that 'when darkness prevails over light, that is Madhyama; when light prevails over darkness, that is

Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878

[7] Corresponding, in various degrees, to the Asvins, the Dioskouroi, and the brothers True and Untrue of Norse mythology.

Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872

(in India the Asvins, in Greek an ideal war-horse and a girl) differ in character, still the coincidence is evidential.

Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878

Corsican Brothers "(compare Myriantheus on the Asvins).

In the Wrong Paradise Andrew Lang 1878

In a later chapter I show that Irving is really one of the Asvins of Vedic mythology, "the Great Twin Brethren," or, in mythic language, "the

In the Wrong Paradise Andrew Lang 1878