Castor and Pollux Castor and Pollux Castor and Pollux (or in Greek, Polydeuces) were twin half-brothers in Greek and Roman mythology, known together as the Dioscuri. Their mother was Leda, but they had different fathers; Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta, while Pollux was the divine son of Zeus, who seduced Leda in the guise of a swan. Though accounts of their birth are varied, they are sometimes said to have been born from an egg, along with their twin sisters Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra. In Latin the twins are also known as the Gemini (literally "twins")
Castor, the Twin was a god, their mother human. Consequently, Castor was born human, while Pollux immortal. Castor is the milder of the two. Dessa said, "To me, many of the songs on "Castor" are the more organic 'twins' to the versions that were recorded for previous, highly produced projects like "A Badly Broken Code" or Paper Tiger's "Made Like Us". There's a human quality to these recordings that I hoped to convey in the title." In an interview with "The Indie Spiritualist", Dessa talked about the responses. "In the end, I was heartened by the responses of listeners, who seemed to really