“Twins are always a harder birth,” Ayodeji Ogunnaike reminded me during the last year of work on Gemini and the Sacred, as a pandemic shrouded the world and all its doings. As the co-editor of three other books in comparative religious studies, in the past I had worked in tandem with trusted colleagues with whom I could share intellectual dialogue, as well as the myriad months or even years of labor required to deliver a multi-contributor volume. Ironically, for Gemini, no twin appeared: nor, after a point, did I look for one. Nevertheless there were many helpmates along the way, not all of them visible, and my debt of gratitude to each one runs deep.