Mercury (mythology)

A sculpture of Mercury

Mercury (Latin: Mercurius) is the god of trade, commerce, financial gain, messages/communication, travellers and boundaries, trickery, merchants and thieves in Ancient Roman religion and myth. Son of Jupiter and Maia, Mercury was a major god in Roman state religion, being a member of the Dii Consentes, the principal group of ancient Roman deities. The Roman counterpart to Hermes, the god is depicted as holding a caduceus in his left hand. The planet Mercury and the element Mercury are named after him.

Mercury (mythology) Media

Fresco of Mercury-Hermes in Pompeii, 1st century
Mercury portrait on a bronze semuncia (215–211 BC)
Bronze figurine of Mercury with three phalluses, with rooster in the left hand and money bag in the right hand, 100 to 250 A.D., found in Tongeren, ca 8.8 cm Gallo-Roman Museum (Tongeren)
A statue of the Greek god Hermes at Hart House, Toronto
A statue of Mercury on the island of Källskär in Kökar, Åland
Mercury as the winged messenger on a 1949 Saint Lucia stamp issued in connection with the Universal Postal Union

Related pages

Turms - Etruscan mythology version of Mercury.
Hermes - Greek mythology version of Mercury.

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