Today Mike as...
Series 6 Post 8: God of boundaries, roads and travelers, thieves, athletes, shepherds, commerce, speed, cunning, wit, magic and sleep
Psychopomp and divine messenger
🌸 His attributes and symbols include the herma, the rooster, the tortoise, satchel or pouch, talaria (winged sandals), and winged helmet or simple petasos, as well as the palm tree, goat, the number four, several kinds of fish, and incense. However, his main symbol is the caduceus, a winged staff intertwined with two snakes copulating and carvings of the other gods.
🌸 Homer and Hesiod portrayed Hermes as the author of skilled or deceptive acts and also as a benefactor of mortals. In the Iliad, he is called "the bringer of good luck", "guide and guardian", and "excellent in all the tricks". He was a divine ally of the Greeks against the Trojans.
🌸 The Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes, which tells the story of the god's birth and his subsequent theft of Apollo's sacred cattle, invokes him as the one "of many shifts (polytropos), blandly cunning, a robber, a cattle driver, a bringer of dreams, a watcher by night, a thief at the gates, one who was soon to show forth wonderful deeds among the deathless gods."
🌸 Beginning with the earliest records of his worship, Hermes has been understood as a chthonic deity (heavily associated with the earth and/or underworld). As a chthonic deity, the worship of Hermes also included an aspect relating to fertility, with the phallus being included among his major symbols. The inclusion of phallic imagery associated with Hermes and placed, in the form of herma, at the entrances to households may reflect a belief in ancient times that Hermes was a symbol of the household's fertility, specifically the potency of the male head of the household in producing children.
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Series 2 post 8: Ah, Mike.
How many love him? How many hate him? How many are indifferent?
One way or another he was a good antagonist (with a magnifying glass to see him, but ok!).
And that's why I dedicated a small drawing to him and to his performance too!❤
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Series 5 post 21: Saying the name Mike means everything or, ironically, nothing.
After emerging from the hard and disastrous encounter with the bear gang, the rat reported several scars on its body and face.
If the first manages to hide it behind from the usual clothing, for the second the wisdom and art of make-up of Nancy comes into play who with great love not only loves him as he is but helps him to mystify the most obvious ones. going to restore, once again, the previous security that the man had.
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