The Gemini Spear-shakers

The Gemini (Castor and Pollux)
Emblem p.174, 'Imagini de i Dei', Cartari's Le Imagini de gli Dei de gli Antichi (1581).

The Gemini ('Heavenly Twins') are commonly represented as riding white horses, dressed in white tunics and purple mantles, wearing egg-shaped helmets crowned with either stars or flames, and holding shining spears vibrating with light.

(See The Shakespeare Enigma)

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