Roman sources, notably Julius Caesar, identify a similar Gaulish figure (Lugus) with Mercury, the god of trade, skills, and messages.
Roman writers equated Lugus with Mercury.
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(He spoke slowly as though thinking.) To the inside is Mercury and Venus or Mathusias (phonetic) and Terra and Mars and Jupiter and Saturn… Let's see, after Saturn comes Urana and Neptune and Pluto.
Similar bright whites have been observed coming from the polar region of Venus, and during a transit of Mercury across the sun, the planet, while black on the side towards us, was observed to emit a bright light comparable to the light of our sun coming from its black disk.
-tter is Mercury in the Centre of Nature.
The philosophers and great students of nature write that nature consists of three principles: sulphur, mercury, and salt.
Mercury = volatile, fluid principle (spirit).
Laws followed planetary cycles (Mars for war, Mercury for plagues).
Titans) that "Mercury, one of the Atlantean gods, was placed as ruler over the Celtæ, and became their great divinity." F.
It was composed of seven stages, equal in height, and each one smaller in area than the one beneath it; each stage was covered with stucco of different colors, "a different color representing each of the heavenly bodies, the least important being at the base: white (Venus); black (Saturn); purple (Jupiter); blue (Mercury); vermillion (Mars); silver (the Moon); and gold (the Sun)." (Lenormant's "Ancient History of the East," vol.
Small bodies near the center align with Mercury and Venus.
MERCURY (alias Saug, heavy): Hark!
The earth's vortex is a sub-vortex, existing within the sun's vortex: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and so on, are corporeal worlds, and each and all of them within sub-vortices, and the combination of all these vortices within the sun's vortex are known by the names great serpent, or solar phalanx.
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The planet Mercury was supposed by the ancients to run on the circle nearest the sun.
They are linked to mythological figures such as Sardus, the son of Hercules, and Norax, the son of Mercury.
Jupiter and Mercury, traveling incognito in Phrygia, begged for food and shelter, but found all doors closed to them until they received hospitality from Philemon and Baucis.
These deities, including Zeus, were twelve in number: Zeus (or Jupiter), Hera (or Juno), Poseidon (or Neptune), Demeter (or Ceres), Apollo, Artemis (or Diana), Hephæstos (or Vulcan), Pallas Athena (or Minerva), Ares (or Mars), Aphrodite (or Venus), Hermes (or Mercury), and Hestia (or Vesta)." These were doubtless the twelve gods from whom the Egyptians derived their kings.
By Demeter (Ceres) he had Persephone (Proserpine); by Leto, Apollo and Artemis (Diana); by Dione, Aphrodite (Venus); by Semele, Dionysos (Bacchus); by Maia, Hermes (Mercury); by Alkmene, Hercules, etc., etc.
In extraordinary cases they were summoned, it was believed, to the councils of the Olympian gods; but they usually remained in their particular spheres, in secluded grottoes and peaceful valleys, occupied in spinning, weaving, bathing, singing sweet songs, dancing, sporting, or accompanying deities who passed through their territories--hunting with Artemis (Diana), rushing about with Dionysos (Bacchus), making merry with Apollo or Hermes (Mercury), but always in a hostile attitude toward the wanton and excited Satyrs."
The "first Hermes," here referred to (afterward called Mercury by the Romans), was a son of Zeus and Maia, a daughter of Atlas.
Hermeticism is named after Hermes Trismegistus, which means "thrice-greatest Hermes." In Greek mythology, Hermes served as the messenger of the gods, associated with both the planet Mercury and the caduceus—a winged staff intertwined with two snakes.
The laws were regulated by the Mars trend for the wars, and Mercury held the subject for the insect plague, and all were guarded from their ravages by the instructions of the Government whose laws fulfilled must be or punishment was meted out, nor stayed.
Mars in mood of harm and Mercury fiercer yet with venom plied.
Mercury retrogrades through Sagittarius, a sign that scatters Mercury’s energy.
The Iliad describes Hera’s journey, during which she ties on her beautiful sandals, similar to those of Mercury (Hermes), the winged messenger of the gods.