#celestialchallenge Wednesday Mercury
Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, kings and queens of steemit today I will place an entry into the new tag of #celestialchallenge by the good @sirknight and the exciting thing is its open to all. How cool is that? Did you know each day is named after celestial bodies, derived from various Greek and Roman Gods? Well check out @sirknights post telling you more about this new challenge here https://steemit.com/celestialchallenge/@sirknight/sirknight-s-daily-celestial-challenge-new-for-all-steemians this is a great way of developing the drive to write more. Why not give it a go?
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Today my post is about Wednesday also known as the day of Mercury. The Roman god a lot of us know as the messenger of the gods. He is also based on other gods, the closest resembling Hermes. The Romans had a thing called Interpretatio romana and would often reinterpret other nations myths into there own culture. The day of Mercury today is known as humpday after you make it over the hump it's all down hill till the weekend, the saying goes.
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However his( Mercury's) main qualities the romans ascribed to him was that he was the god of commerce and merchants there are a couple of coins with him on them and even today you can find older U.S.A. ten cent pieces with his image on them called Mercury dimes. They were made of real silver and are worth more then 10 cents now.
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Then there is the planet Mercury The smallest and fastest planet in our solar system the speed it travels around our sun is why it was named after the god of speed or messenger of the gods Mercury. Being the closest planet to our sun makes it fairly unlikely that there is any life on it.However that doesn't mean there never was life there. Could an artificial habitat be constructed if someone were to dig deep enough?
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Finally the Alchemy connection for Mercury which is also known as quick silver was used in a variety of ways in a process known as transmutation it was often thought that alchemist were only concerned with the transmuting of lead to gold they practiced not only that but the magic was in the changing of them self from lead to gold like Mercury was a divine substance to the alchemist the metal and liquid state was a spirit concept for them.
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I hope you enjoyed this and found it enlightening if you did please upvote and comment also why not try the challenge yourselves till next time we meet I will be in the lab turning writings into steem.
Cheers.
Interesting! Are the sun and moon named after gods, or do they derive their names from something else?
Sol Invictus the official sun god of the later Roman Empire and a patron of soldiers.sunday and Luna is the divine embodiment of the Moon Latin dies lunae "day of the moon It is intersting yeah? I hope you might join the fun its open to all here at steemit. :) thank you for the comment and for your time.
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