Gemini (Zodiac series)James LyonsHand cut and painted collage.Prints available here!Castor was slain

Gemini (Zodiac series)
James Lyons
Hand cut and painted collage.

Prints available here!

Castor was slain, and Pollux, inconsolable for the loss of his brother, besought Jupiter to be permitted to give his own life as a ransom for him. Jupiter so far consented as to allow the two brothers to enjoy the boon of life alternately, passing one day under the earth and the next in the heavenly abodes. According to another form of the story, Jupiter rewarded the attachment of the brothers by placing them among the stars as Gemini the Twins.
(Thomas Bulfinch, Age of Fable)

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