Mercury
Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #316 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.
↻ synthesized from 35 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -700 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested from 3rd century BCE onward in Latin literature.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Anubis, Morana, valkyries, Xolotl, Pushan, Charon, Vanth, Pluto, Ceres, Dís, Parcae, Dei Lucrii, Fortuna, Juno Regina, Latona, Saturnus, Great Mother of the gods, Vesta, Juno, Neptune, Sol, Luna, God, the Father, Epona, Dis Pater, Rosmerta, Sulevia, Sirona, Esus, Janus, Portunus, Cardea, Terminus, Forculus, Lima, Limentinus, Mare, Terra, Erebus, Chaos, Nox, Aether, Caligio, Iarbe, Aeneas, Camillus, Brennus, Cernunnos, Triton, Pan, Nereids, Cybele, Boreas, Jove, Amor, Hymen, Jealousy, Auster, Napaeae, Muses, Sentinel One, Sentinel Seven, Prime Sentinel, MO, The Golden Age, Adonis, Endymion, Cupid, Phoebus, Cynthia, Proserpina, Minerva, Bacchus, Ganymede, Ariadne, Hebe, Aurora, Aquilon, Zéphyr, Achilles, Atlas, Shazam, Solomon, Black Adam, Shazamo, Oggar, Budha, Wōdan, Isis, Freyja, Týr, Poseidon, Syrinx, Moon, Stilbon, Liber, Libera, Ullr, Othinus, Mythothyn, Ollerus, Iovis, Jupiter, Saturn, Hercules, Aphrodite, Heracles, Cronus, Phaethon, Eos, Phosphorus, Pyroeis, Phaenon, Vesper, Chloris, Zephyrus, Flora, Three Graces, Uranus, Voluptas, Pulchritudo, Persephone, Pallas Athena, Primavera, Archangel Gabriel, Saint Laurence, Pollux, Phoebe, Hecate, Hades, Zeus, Mars, Taranis, Vulcan, Diana, Thor, Artemis (Diana), Apollo, Sun, Hesperus, Ares, Venus, Virgin Mary, centaur
- parent of
- Lares
- allied with
- Neptune, Terpsichore, Prometheus, Nature, Astrea, Hercules, angels, Hermathena, Castitas
- syncretized with
- Teutates, Lugus, Odin, Wōden, Hermes, al-Kutbay, Arvernus, Mercury Arvernorix, Mercury Dumiatis, Turms, Mercurius Artaios, Mercurius Arvernus, Mercurius Cimbrianus, Mercurius Cissonius, Mercurius Esibraeus, Mercurius Gebrinius, Mercurius Moccus, Mercurius Sobrius, Mercurius Visucius, Wotan, Alaunius, *Wōđanaz, Visucius, Mercurius the Giant
- creator of
- Lares
- manifested by
- Lugh
Mentioned by
- Hecate
- Hades
- Zeus
- Mars
- Taranis
- Vulcan
- Diana
- Thor
- Artemis (Diana)
- Apollo
- Sun
- Hesperus
- Ares
- Venus
- Virgin Mary
- centaur
and 30 more
Sources
- doi:10.5209/geri.14907peer reviewed
Source passages
“Jupiter sends Mercury to order Dis to free Proserpina; but Proserpina has melted Dis' hard heart, and eats "several" of the pomegranate seeds he offers her; those who have eaten the food of the dead cannot return to the world of the living.”
#13074 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“the Roman god Mercury”
#14130 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In Roman mythology and religion many of Hermes's characteristics belong to Mercury, a name derived from the Latin merx, meaning "merchandise", and the origin of the words "merchant" and "commerce."”
#14412 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Because Mercury was not one of the early deities surviving from the Roman Kingdom, he was not assigned a flamen (priest), 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”
#14562 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Three couches were prepared for three pairs of gods—Apollo and Latona, Hercules and Diana, Mercury and Neptune.”
#19882 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5