#mercurius

[mercuriicultores]

1880, Carl Wendling German, Bacchus offering wine in a slver bowl to a marble satyr herm

[dian-and-the-gods]

The drawing grew, I drew more deities. It's on my altar now

[incelrorschach]

Man, Woman, Thing

[occvltswim]

Hermetica: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings which contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus

[lonelyspelltoconjureyou]

Hermes by Kypris Aquarelas

Prints available here at society6!

[gundamfight]

[merovingian-marvels]

Days of the week series: Wednesday

(Middle) German - Wodenstag

Anglo-Saxon - Wōdnesdaeg

Old Norse - Óðinsdagr

Roman era equivalent - Dies Mercurii

Odin is a god of many traits with an equal amount of names referring to them across the European continent.

The most dominant form which survived into “Wednesday” is the Old High German form Wōdan. Roman languages still use the Latin variations such as mercredi in French. Swedish, Norwegian and Danish use onsdag, which is a shortened version of Odens dag.

Wednesday is the one day in the week which was most effectively banned by Catholic missionaries and the later fully established Catholic Church. Examples of this can be found in modern German, Slavic languages, Finnish, Icelandic and Faroese using “mid-week” instead.

Note that the (modern) countries which were christened last are the ones which use “mid-week”. A possible explanation as to why German also uses mid-week, might be because a second pontificate was housed in Germany, which might have amplified the use of mid-week over Odin.

Mon, Tue, Thur, Fri, Sat, Sun

[noisyslavicwitch]

Statue of Mercury (Salzburg, Hellbrunn Palace)

[wodeworm]

The Spirit Mercurius Alchemical Dragon

𝔖𝔠𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔪𝔟𝔢𝔯 13

The spiritus mercurialis and their transformations represented as a monstrous dragon. It is a quaternity, in which the fourth is at the same time the unity of the three, the unity being symbolized by the mystagogue Hermes. The three are; Luna, Sol, and coniunctio Solis et Lunae in Taurus, the House of Venus. Together they form ☿= Mercurius

notes from Nazari's allegorical alchemical epic Three Dreams

Listen, see, and understand my words; and write them deep in your heart: for what I shall tell you is that which many seek, but few find; and many know and do, but few comprehend; for many see me, but few recognize me. Listen now, and understand if you can, and you will learn all: I am the Hen, or the worst and most ferocious Dragon, and I endure throughout time. I revive myself from death, and kill the death that killed me. I resuscitate the corpses that I created; and, living in death, kill myself: for which you should rejoice, since without me, and my life, you could not rejoice. I carry poison in my head, but the remedy is in my tail, which I bite in my fury. Whoever tries to sport with me dies by my penetrating gaze. Whoever bites me must first bite himself; if I bite him, death bites him in the head, unless he bites me first; for my bite is medicine for my bite. It is in the high mountains that I find my rest and repose, yet it is in the plains and valleys of the earth, and in the dunghills, that I reside; it is in the vaporous water that I am conceived, yet it is in the air and fire that I find my food. My sweat smells of the grave: he who does not understand this will learn nothing of me. Hear me: I am known to all people, races, and tribes, to the poor as well as to the rich; and they all call me worthless, and countless other names and epithets. But anyone who knew me well would call me precious indeed. I am a stranger in my own country, but known to all climates of the world.

 Whoever sees me, or has seen me, does not recognize me; and whoever neither sees nor knows me, seeks me. My father and my mother conceived me, but I first conceived them. I am father and son; I am mother, father, and son; I am invisible when I fly, and impalpable when I flee through the air, but visible and palpable to the touch. Therefore recognize me, and kill me, and know that I cannot die by the sword, or other arms; but present me with a mirror, and my own reflection kills me. If you feed me in fire, so that first my members change shape; and then my body is purged of all fatal poison; and then you see my body, soul and spirit joined together; then you will prove superior to all. He who hears me, but does not understand, consumes his days in useless labors, and employs his time to no purpose

[verusalka]

i can’t believe i never posted this but i made a hair lineup for my fire genasi wizard, mercurius—this is from LAST YEAR!!! i never posted this??? maybe i did and hallucinated it? anyway i truly unlocked something doing this hair

[monstersoffilgaia]

[mercuriicultores]

1780, Augustin Pajou, Mercure

[dian-and-the-gods]

Mercurius⚕️

"You return faithful hearts to their happy homes, and with golden Caduceus check capricious uproar, and are dear to the highest and lowest of the gods"

[Horace, Odes, 1.10].

[digitaldude555]

Mercurius

[flyboy-trainor]

My Larry and adjacent characters master image so far.

Hank, Larry, Keeg, Negative Spirit, Rebis, Mercurius, Danny the Brick, Larry pushing strollers, orchids for Larry.

I'm probably going to do a better Mercurius (instead of just copying the Negative Spirit and making it the black with the yellow outline), definitely more Rebis images (and more Larry, of course<3), Keeg Bovo (comic), Valentina (comic because I want her with the bandages although I might give her like a greenish glow like her TV negative spirit), and Negative Girl from Teen Titans Go! (she's so silly). Maybe Eleanor? The problem with Eleanor is I'm not very good at realistic faces so we'll see. Ohh. I need to do Keeg in larval form, definitely.

I do also want to draw Larry from each comic iteration, maybe some based on appearances in other adaptations (maybe try pre-Doom Patrol Titans episode, the other Teen Titans cartoon, and uh the other few like cameos he's had in stuff idk). Also I guess other versions of Valentina, depending on how I'm feeling about actually drawing faces.

[aestheticallypleasinganimeboys]

Mercurius - H-Game: Dies Irae