The Gemini Spear-shakers

The Gemini (Castor and Pollux)
Emblem from Vincenzo Cartari’s book Imagini delli Dei de gl’Antichi (‘Images of the Gods of the Ancients’) (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)

The Francis Bacon Research Trust