Editing Palici (section)

==Interpretations==
The second book of the ''Vatican Mythographers'' translated their name as 'twice-born'.<ref name=Pepin2022/>

Scholar Marcel Meulder argues for a [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] origin for their name, and relates it to a group of Greek compound names that belong to the semantic field of colours (e.g., ''leuko'' 'white'; ''melas'' 'black'). Thus, their name would mean 'of a white colour, of a grey colour, of a yellow colour' ("blanchâtre, jaunâtre, grisâtre”").<ref name=Meulder1998>{{cite journal |last1=Meulder |first1=Marcel |title=Les dieux sicules paliques portent un nom indo-européen |journal=Latomus |date=1998 |volume=57 |issue=1 |pages=33–37 |jstor=41538205 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Meulder |first1=Marcel |title=Le vers 4 du fragment 115 d'Empédocle (FVS 31 D.-K.): proposition d'une correction |trans-title=Verse 4 of fragment 115 of Empedocles (FVS 31 D.-K.): proposed correction |language=fr |journal=Elenchos |date=1 December 2016 |volume=37 |issue=1–2 |pages=33–68 |doi=10.1515/elen-2016-371-203 |s2cid=192732795 }}</ref> He also suggests it as evidence of the [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European character]] of the [[Siculian|Siculian language]].<ref name=Meulder1998/>

Polish historian Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak and Daria Zawiasa suggest the Palici may derive from the old [[Proto-Indo-European mythology|Indo-European]] [[mytheme]] of the [[divine twins]].<ref>Witczak, K. T.; Zawiasa, D. "The Sicilian Palici as representatives of the indo-european divine twins". In: ''ΜΥΘΟΣ'', n. 12, 2004-2005. pp. 93-106.</ref> They argue that the pair fit some of the common traits that scholar [[Donald J. Ward]] ascribed to the mytheme, such as a [[sky-god]]'s paternity and a single designation for both twins.<ref>Witczak K. T., Zawiasa D. (2004). "[https://antiquitasvivahome.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/54.1-2.05.-witczak-k.-t.-zawiasa-d.-palici-e28093-the-sicilian-twin-brothers-and-the-indo-european-myth-about-divine-twins.pdf Palici – the Sicilian Twin Brothers and the Indo- European Myth about Divine Twins]". In: ''Živa Antika'' [Antiquité Vivante] 54(1–2), 2004, pp. 56–60.</ref>