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[Mercury Mythology (Our article)]

Mythology
Mercury could be thought of as a personal assistant to his father, Jupiter. Mercury follows instructions from other gods as well HicksAlia (talk) 14:11, 27 November 2017 (UTC).Zachjones14 (talk) 17:08, 20 November 2017 (UTC) in that  his father was known to be promiscuous having many sexual relationships with mortal women. Mercury helped his father to pass in and out of the earthly realm. In the Roman equivalent to the Odyssey, Mercury was able to free Ulysses with a magical herb. The herb was used to stop the spells that the nymph, Calypso was using to hinder him. Mercury had divine speed HicksAlia (talk) 14:11, 27 November 2017 (UTC) which he used to deliver messages and travel throughout the ancient lands. For instance, HicksAlia (talk) 14:11, 27 November 2017 (UTC) In order to judge a beauty contest between Juno, Venus, and Minerva, Mercury was able to HicksAlia (talk) 14:11, 27 November 2017 (UTC) fly Paris to the contest. This contest would lead to the Trojan War. The Roman origins of the story composed by Virgil include Mercury. Mercury was sent by Jupiter to deliver a message to Aeneas. The message was to remind Aeneas that he was supposed to found a city in Rome and break his forbidden relationship with Dido. Another storyteller Ovid spoke about one of Jupiter's affairs with a nymph in his work Fasti. Jupiter attempted to keep his love for the nymph Jaturna a secret, but another gossipy nymph named Lara wanted to spread the news. After Jupiter had heard word that Lara was speaking about his affair, he ripped out her tongue and sent for Mercury to guide her to the after life. Following after the example of his father, Mercury raped Lara. She later had two twins, the Lares, who would be worshiped by the Romans as gods of the sea, household, the fields, and crossroads. Zachjones14 (talk) 22:48, 19 November 2017 (UTC) Being a guide for souls to the afterlife was another one of Mercury's jobs HicksAlia (talk) 14:11, 27 November 2017 (UTC). Mercury can be compared to an equivalent Greek god(s)?, whose shoes with wings symbolized their sovereignty over travelHicksAlia (talk) 14:11, 27 November 2017 (UTC). Mercury was able to bypass all paths and go around the world freely. The tradition of putting shoes onto the feet of the dead was established because the Romans believed that their journey with Mercury across the planes of death would be long and hard. Zachjones14 (talk) 22:55, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Worship
Mercury was moderately worshiped, Augustus was the only emperor to show much of an interest in him. 'Temple subheading from wiki' The temple was a meeting place for merchants and traders. Businessmen would meet partially based on worship for Mercury Like the Greek god Hermes, Mercury shared many of the same objects that he resided over. Grain, travel, and commercial success were attributed to the god. Zachjones14 (talk) 17:46, 20 November 2017 (UTC) It was peculiar that Mercury did not have someone in his temple who tended to usual temple duties. This would mean that Rome adopted this god at a later time as many earlier adopted gods would have a Flamen to take care of their temple. The worship of Mercury would have begun in 509 BCE.Mercury's festival involved merchants sprinkling water from his well near Porta Capena onto the heads of the merchants and their products.

Influence
The name “Mercury” has left an impact on much of modern nomenclature.
 * Mercury (planet) was named by the Romans after their swift messenger god because the planet moved across the sky quicker than any other.
 * The chemical Hg Mercury (element) was named after the roman god for the same reason.Sebastian Trejo (talk) 17:33, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * The now-defunct Mercury car brand from Ford Motor Co. was named after the Roman god. The first logo the Mercury brand used was a side profile of Mercury's head, complete with winged helmet.
 * Likewise, Mercury Records, a major American record label from the 1940s to the present, was not only named after the Roman god, but used a stylized frontal illustration of his head as its trademark.
 * The United States' so-called Mercury dime, issued from 1916 to 1945, actually features a Winged Liberty and not the god Mercury, but is so named because of the uncanny similarity between the two. Sebastian Trejo (talk) 22:48, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
 * The name Mercury spurs from the latin root Mer which then stems to words such as merchant,mercantilism, or market.