God Mercury
- 1. God Mercury
- 2. Who is God Mercury? A major God in Roman religion and mythology. God of: financial gain, commerce, travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery, thieves. Greek equivalent: Hermes
- 3. Hermes Parents: Zeus and the Pleiad Maia. Children: Pan, Hermaphroditus, Abderus, Autolycus, Eudorus, Angelia and Myrtilus. Symbol: Talaria, caduceus, tortoise, lyre, rooster, Petasos
- 4. Back to Mercury Parents: Maia and Jupiter Children: Lares Symbol: Caduceus, winged sandals, winged hat, tortoise, ram and rooster
- 5. Description in mythology Winged messenger of the gods. Mostly famous with his helmet.
- 6. In popular culture Mercury was a main character on Space Sentinels in 1977. The now-defunct Mercury car brand from Ford Motor Co. was named after the Roman god.
- 7. History Like Hermes, he was also a god of messages, eloquence and trade, particularly of the grain trade. Mercury was also considered a god of abundance and commercial success, particularly in Gaul, where he was said to have been respected.
- 8. Worship Because Mercury was not one of the early deities surviving from the Roman Kingdom, he was not assigned a flamen, but he did have his own major festival, on 15 May, the Mercuralia. During the Mercuralia, merchants sprinkled water from his sacred well near the Porta Capena on their heads.
- 9. Temple Mercury's temple in Rome was situated in the Circus Maximus, between the Aventine and Palatine hills, and was built in 495 before Christ. That year saw disturbances at Rome between the patrician senators and the plebeians, which led to a secession of the plebs in the following year.
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