#dayofhermes — Public Fediverse posts
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wodensday! 🐺🐺
"Another great abode is there, which is named Valaskjálf. Odin possesses that dwelling. The gods made it and thatched it with sheer silver, and in this hall is the Hliðskjálf, the high seat so called. Whenever Allfather sits in that seat, he surveys all lands."
Prose Edda, Gylfaginning🏛 Odin on his throne Hlidskjalf from Lerje, #Denmark, dated 900 CE
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Semele asked Jove to come to her in this way. Her request was granted, and Jove, coming with lightning and thunder, burnt Semele to death. From her womb Liber [Bacchus] was born. Mercurius snatched him from the fire and gave him to Nysus to be reared."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 179🏛 Hermes and baby Dionysos #mosaic
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Enjoy the last day of 2025 🥂
"At the proper time #Zeus loosened the stitches and gave birth to #Dionysos, whom he entrusted to #Hermes. Hermes took him to Ino and Athamas, and persuaded them to bring him up as a girl."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.26🏛 Roman marble relief, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Rome
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"The god [Hermes] spoke to her [Ino] in friendly coaxing tones, and let pass a divine message from his prophetic throat: ‘Madam, receive a new son [baby Dionysos]; lay in your bosom the child of Semele your sister."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 9. 59🏛 #Hermes, child Dionysos and Ino, Attic red-figure hydria, Athens, A. Kyrou Collection 71
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"The fair goddess [Thetis] took a dark-hued veil, than which was no raiment more black, and set out to go, and before her wind-footed swift Iris led the way; and about them the surge of the sea parted asunder. And when they had stepped forth upon the beach they sped unto heaven."
Iliad 24.93🏛 #Hermes following #Thetis in her chariot, Terracotta lekythos ca 500 BCE
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
But today is personal, as it is my grandmother's funeral. May the earth rest lightly on her.
"I urge you, [...]
Not to keep weeping. For the thread of the Moirai calls everyone."
#Epitaph (gravestone inscription) from Amorgos, #Greece🏛 #Hermes comforting a woman sitting on a grave, Archaeological Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"He [Hermes] cast upon the dogs which were guarding them [the guard dogs of the cattle of Apollon] a stupor and strangles, so that the dogs forgot the cows and lost the power of barking."
#Hesiod, The Great Eoiae Frag 16🏛 Red-Figure Kylix depicting #Hermes with a dog by the Iliupersis Painter, ca 375–350 BCE, #Apulia in Magna Graecia
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"#Hermes, beloved of Polydeukes, one of the Dioskuroi, made him a gift of Dotor, the Thessalian horse."
Ptolemaios Chenno, 190.50🏛 Hermes, Polydeukes, #Satyr or #Silenos, Italic Stamnos, 400–350 BCE
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#MerMay is upon us and I'm starting out with a vase painting of #Hermes with the sea goddess Thetis, leader of the fifty daughters of Nereus & mother of Achilles. In the scene shown, she might be on her way to Olympos, summoned by Zeus to persuade #Achilles to return Hektor's body.
🏛 Hermes following #Thetis in her chariot, Terracotta lekythos ca 500 BCE
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It's the #DayOfHermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
For #BlackHistoryMonth, I'm introducing African deities in my daily god toots. #Anubis is the god of funerary rites, protector of graves, and guide of souls in #ancientEgyptian religion. He is commonly depicted with the head of a jackal as jackals had been strongly associated with cemeteries. The Greeks associated him with #Hermes because they both guided souls to the afterlife, resulting in the syncretic god #Hermanubis.
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It's the #DayOfHermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
For #BlackHistoryMonth, I'm introducing African deities in my daily god toots. #Ekwensu is a trickster spirit of the #Igbo people, serving as the #Alusi of bargains and the tortoise. Crafty at trade and negotiations he is often invoked for guidance in difficult mercantile situations. With the rise of Christianity, the beneficent aspects of Ekwensu were supplanted by missionaries who came to represent him as #Satan.
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It's the #DayOfHermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
For #BlackHistoryMonth, I'm introducing African deities in my daily god toots. #Eshu or Èṣù is a personification of mischief. His cognomen He-who-creates-problems-for-the-innocent highlights the complex nature of this highly unpredictable deity. #Èṣù is the messenger not only to Olódùmarè, the Supreme Being, but also to and between the other #Orishas. Despite all this, he is the #Orisha in charge of law enforcement and orderliness.
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It's the #DayOfHermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
For #BlackHistoryMonth, I'm introducing African deities in my daily god toots. #Eshu or Èṣù is a personification of mischief. His cognomen He-who-creates-problems-for-the-innocent highlights the complex nature of this highly unpredictable deity. #Èṣù is the messenger not only to Olódùmarè, the Supreme Being, but also to and between the other #Orishas. Despite all this, he is the #Orisha in charge of law enforcement and orderliness.
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It's the #DayOfHermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
For #BlackHistoryMonth, I'm introducing African deities in my daily god toots. #Eshu or Èṣù is a personification of mischief. His cognomen He-who-creates-problems-for-the-innocent highlights the complex nature of this highly unpredictable deity. #Èṣù is the messenger not only to Olódùmarè, the Supreme Being, but also to and between the other #Orishas. Despite all this, he is the #Orisha in charge of law enforcement and orderliness.
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It's the #DayOfHermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
For #BlackHistoryMonth, I'm introducing African deities in my daily god toots. #Eshu or Èṣù is a personification of mischief. His cognomen He-who-creates-problems-for-the-innocent highlights the complex nature of this highly unpredictable deity. #Èṣù is the messenger not only to Olódùmarè, the Supreme Being, but also to and between the other #Orishas. Despite all this, he is the #Orisha in charge of law enforcement and orderliness.
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It's the #DayOfHermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
For #BlackHistoryMonth, I'm introducing African deities in my daily god toots. #Eshu or Èṣù is a personification of mischief. His cognomen He-who-creates-problems-for-the-innocent highlights the complex nature of this highly unpredictable deity. #Èṣù is the messenger not only to Olódùmarè, the Supreme Being, but also to and between the other #Orishas. Despite all this, he is the #Orisha in charge of law enforcement and orderliness.
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
A premature #PhallusThursday for good luck in this #NewYears week: a young man carrying a sacrificial basket passes by a herm, a simple statue of #Hermes with a head and a #phallus at the appropriate height. He gives the phallus a rub for good luck. May your #NewYear2024 be happy and full of joy!
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"#Mercurius [Hermes] snatched him from the fire and gave him to Nysus [Seilenos] to be reared. In Greek he is called #Dionysos."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 179🏛 #Hermes holding Baby Dionysos, polychrome vase painting dated 480-400 BCE
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
For #AllHallows, have a relief of #Hermes in his role as #psychopomp. Hermes guides the souls of the dead to the underworld. Here, he takes the hand of a dead woman named Myrrhine on the way down to Hades.
🏛 Relief on Myrrhine's lekythos, ca 420-410 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, #Athens
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday!
#Hermes is following #Thetis in her chariot in the painting on this terracotta lekythos (oil flask), dated ca 500 BCE.
The scene may reflect a passage in book 24 of the #Iliad (lines 95-96) where Thetis is summoned to Mount Olympos and ordered by Zeus to convince her son Achilles to return the body of Hektor to Priamos.#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekMythology #GreekRomanArt @mythology @antiquidons @histodons
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday!
#Hermes and a #satyr on their way home from the #NewYearsParty 😉
Perhaps it is one of his three sons known as the Satyroi Hermeides, #satyrs who became the messengers of Dionysos.
Athenian red-figure vase painting, dated ca. 525-475 BCE, today in Berlin Antikensammlung F2160#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekMythology #GreekMyth #Myth #Mythodon #GreekRomanArt @mythology #GreekGods #AncMed @antiquidons
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday!
Meet your friendly neighbourhood #psychopomp as designed by @[email protected]. What a lovely artwork of #Hermes 🥰
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