# (s-sanko2018) >Sańko, Siarhei. "Reflexes of Ancient Ideas about Divine Twins in the Images of Saints Georges and Nicholars in Belarusian Folklore"". *Electronic Journal of Folklore*, vol. 72, 15-40. ## pdf: Drive? [Journal Website](https://doi.org/10.7592/FEJF2018.72.sanko) [Research Gate](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326747397-Reflexes-of-Ancient-Ideas-about-Divine-Twins-in-the-Images-of-Saints-George-and-Nicholas-in-Belarusian-Folklore) ## Abstract > As the images of Saint George and Saint Nicholas in Belarusian folklore converged, forming a non-canonical pairing, they assimilated a number of features indicative of an earlier tradition of divine twins’ veneration. Specifically, the paper focuses on the following features: 1) the possible traces of the devatādvandva grammatical form and the dual number; 2) a special attitude towards horses; 3) Saints George and Nicholas accompanying (in the capacity of charioteers) a female deity or a mythological creature (Blessed Mother, Au-rora); 4) Saints George and Nicholas accompanying a character who inherits the Thunderer’s features (Saint Elijah, Saint Michael the Archangel); 5) systematic differences within a pair when one of the members is portrayed as a young man (Saint George) and the other one as an old man (Saint Nicholas); 6) the duplication of a single saint’s image; 7) narratives of twin healers, one of whom functions as a surgeon and the other one as a thaumaturge.