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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…

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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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
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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
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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 Dionys…

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