The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v1.c16.s6.33

v1.c16.s6.33

A very different conception of the nature of the twins is suggested by Harris,¹⁰ whose collections of ethnic materials reveals the idea that of pairs of twins one is often held to have a divine origin, without there being any myth of nature involved. Whatever the value of the theory for other cases, it seems to have no special plausibility for Indian religion,¹¹ in which the natural background is clear, as it is in the Lettish myths, whose importance seems unduly to be depreciated by failure to realize the remarkable character of the parallels with the Indian legends.