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A profile view of the massive marble sculptures of the mythical twin half-brothers, Castor and Pollux gleaming in the morning light atop the Cordonata, Capitoline hill, Rome, Italy. May 2026. According to mythology, their wish to remain together resulted in them becoming the Gemini constellation. These statues were carved around C3 and their original location was at a temple in the nearby Roman Forum and they were moved to their present location around 1584.

#rome #italy #italia #castorandpollux #marble #sculpture

Antinous the Gay God Oct 25, 2025

🪷 25 Oct is the Roman feast of #CastorAndPollux. #Ildefonso group Museo del Prado, restored using genuine, albeit slightly restored, head of #Antinous for #Castor (left). #Pollux offers a Torch flame to the Altar of #Persephone. Small goddess holds pomegranate or #Dioscuri egg.🪷

Antinous the Gay God Jul 15, 2025

🪷 On 15 July 484 BC, Rome dedicated the temple of the twins #Castor and #Pollux, symbols of same-sex devotion. This statue of #CastorAndPollux is the #Dioscuri #Ildefonso group at the Museo del Prado, restored using a genuine, albeit slightly restored #Antinous head. 🪷

Antinous the Gay God Jan 9, 2025

🪷 #CastorAndPollux statue called the #Ildefonso group at Madrid's Museo del Prado, restored using genuine, albeit slightly restored, head of #Antinous for #Castor (left). #Pollux offers a Torch flame to the Altar of #Persephone. Small goddess holds pomegranate or #Dioscuri egg. 🪷

Antinous the Gay God Oct 25, 2024

🪷 25 Oct is the Roman feast of #CastorAndPollux. #Ildefonso group #museodelprado, restored using genuine, albeit slightly restored, head of #Antinous for #Castor (left). #Pollux offers a Torch flame to the Altar of #Persephone. Small goddess holds pomegranate or #Dioscuri egg.🪷

Antinous the Gay God Oct 25, 2023

🪷 25 Oct is the Roman feast of #CastorAndPollux. Antinous and Hadrian "Eternos" montage photo by #FcoLeo based on the #Ildefonso Group statue of #Castor and #Pollux with heads from #Antinous/#Dionysus #Braschi (left) and #Hadrian #Uffizi. 🪷

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making a racket Sep 23, 2023

Patch notes. Time is all 14-beat euclideans. Drone is 4ms Ensemble Oscillator through a Wasp, with LFOs on sweet crunchy spots. @stargirl's #CastorAndPollux <3 on the lead and upper. Lead rhythm hand-played on Euclidean Circles knobs. C&P channels separately enveloped but then mixed and sent together through Ripples band pass tuned to the lead pitch (self-resonating for the whistle at the end), then a fast 4ms DLD channel for crunch.

Wasp ramped to hi-resonance at the end because of course.

making a racket Aug 8, 2023

Made a sound tonight. Like usual, not a full song, just exploring with a single part.

Last week I swapped out some modules. Previously I had been trying to experiment with external inputs and without a pitch quantizer. For now I've decided to put the quantizer back in and pull the extra inputs and some utilities I wasn't using much. I also added several oscillators, though the sound tonight is all from #Winterbloom #CastorAndPollux (from @stargirl).

#nodaw #eurorack #practice

Antinous the Gay God Jul 14, 2023

🪷 On 15 July 484 BC Rome dedicated the temple of the twins #Castor & #Pollux, symbols of same-sex devotion. This statue of #CastorAndPollux is the #Dioscuri #Ildefonso group at the #museodelprado, restored using a genuine, albeit slightly restored #Antinous head. 🪷

World History Encyclopedia Jun 11, 2023

Castor and Pollux (the Dioscuri) are figures from Greek and Roman mythology considered the twin sons of Zeus or Jupiter. https://www.worldhistory.org/Castor_and_Pollux/ #History #Ashvins #CastorandPollux #GreekMythology

Castor and Pollux

Castor and Pollux (the Dioscuri) are figures from Greek and Roman mythology considered the twin sons of Zeus or Jupiter. Semi-divine figures, the twins were credited with the role of saving those in...

World History Encyclopedia