2001-11-16 11:40:56 -- The relationship between the immortal and the mortal stars is reflected in the relationship between Anubis and Osiris. Anubis is immortal because he represents Ursa Minor. Osiris is mortal because he represents Orion's Belt. Orion's Belt may have taken on even more significance in this context. Knowing of the precession of the pole, the priests would have known that Orion's Belt takes up a position on the celestial equator, precisely at that era when Polaris in the constellation of Anubis took up its position at the celestial pole.

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The ‘Divine Twins’
The concept of the ‘divine twins’ is another recurrent theme amongst the IE mythologies, known to the Indians, Greeks, Mitannians, Armenians, Persians, Romans, Slavs, Balts and possibly the Germans and Kelts. Castor and Polydeuces (collectively called the Dioscuri, ' horseman gods') in Greece, Amphion and Zethus in Thebes, and Romulus and Remus in Rome were all legendary heroes. The Greeks later deified the Dioscuri, while Romulus was deified in the form of god Quirinus or was assimilated with him.

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