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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-19 08:11:05
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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
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Athenian red-figure amphora depicting the god Hermes weighing souls (psychostasis). In Book 5 of the Odyssey, Hermes, messenger of the gods, is sent to tell the nymph Kalypso to allow Odysseus to leave so he can return home after several years of being detained on the island of Ogygia. Hermes is also known as the god of boundaries, and as such he is Psychopompos, or “soul-guide”: He leads the souls of the dead to the house of Hades. In a sense, Odysseus is dead, imprisoned on an island in the m…