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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-12-31 09:14:04
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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 entrust…

Marble relief with the image of the scene of Dionysos’ birth. Baby Dionysos leaps from the thigh of his father Zeus into the waiting arms of his brother Hermes. Behind Hermes, two goddesses attend the scene. It's a Roman work of the second century CE after a Greek model of the late 4th century BCE.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-01 19:42:53
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It's the first #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday of the year! ⚡
"They [the Hyades] had played the nurses for the babe that Zeus had so happily brought forth, Bakkhos, while he still had a breath of the sewn-up birth-pocket."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.143
🏛️ Birth of #Dionysos

Red-figure vase painting of Zeus, seated naked on a rock. The head of baby Dionysos is emerging from his left thigh. Beside him, in winged boots and a traveller's cloak, Hermes holds his father's sceptre along with his own kerykeion staff as he watches the miraculous birth.