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! 🐏

"It is said that after death, the tutelary god (daimon) of each person, to whom he had been allotted in life, leads him to a place where the dead are gathered together [i.e. Hermes]; then they are judged and depart to the other world with the guide."
Plato, Phaedo 107c

🏛 #Hermes weighing souls, Athenian red-figure amphora from Nola, ca 460 BCE, by the Nikon Painter

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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

"When Mercurius first made the lyre on Mount Cyllene . . . Apollo took the lyre, and is said to have taught Orpheus on it, and after he himself had invented the cithara, he gave the lyre to Orpheus."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.7

🏛 #Hermes, Orpheus, and Eurydike, marble relief, 27 BCE – 14 AD, Torre del Greco (Naples)

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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

"O Hermes, lord of games (enagônios), son of Maia and Zeus!"
Aeschylus, Fragment 212

🏛 #Hermes and youth, red-figure vase painting

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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

Please, glorious Hermes, keep me safe on my travels today and far, far away from the gates of Hades! 💙

"Hermes is the minister of Zeus and leads the souls of the departed down to Hades."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.32.4

🏛 #Hermes Psychopompos accompanying the souls of the dead, Greek Kylix, 470-460 BCE

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A late Day of Hermes and #BumDayMonday post 🐏

"Zeus made Hermes his personal herald and messenger of the gods beneath the earth."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.112-115

🏛 #Hermes Chthonios, Roman copy (1st century CE) after a Greek original by Praxiteles (ca. 350-325 BCE). Now in the Archaeological Museum of Andros.

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A late Day of Hermes and #BumDayMonday post 🐏

"I see him there at the oars of his little boat in the lake, the ferryman of the dead, Charon, with his hand upon the oar and he calls me now."
Euripides, Alcestis 252

🏛 #Hermes takes the soul of a dead woman to Charon, Attic lecythus, 450 BCE

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