🪷 Rejoice! May 15th is the #Mercuralia #Roman festival honoring #Mercury #Hermes, here syncretised with #Antinous. #AntoniusSubia says: "We ask Mercury as #Antinoos to run by our side throughout our travels and in our communication with the divine." More: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/05/in-p... 🪷

Happy Mercuralia! #OTD, Romans celebrate Mercury, the god of commerce, by sprinkling their heads, ships, and businesses with sacred water from Porta Capena’s well. This ancient ritual was believed to bring prosperity and protection. May fortune favor your ventures! #Mercuralia

Today, May 15, our Fun Friends in the #RomanEmpire would have been getting down with the #Mercuralia, in honor of #Mercury, the God of #financialgain, #commerce, #eloquence (and thus #poetry),
You know he was Super-Good at Multi Tasking. ;)

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🪷 Rejoice! May 15th is the #Mercuralia Roman festival honoring #Mercury #Hermes, here syncretised with #Antinous. #AntoniusSubia says: "We ask Mercury as #Antinoos to run by our side throughout our travels and in our communication with the divine." More: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/05/in-p... 🪷

🪷 Rejoice! May 15th is the #Mercuralia Roman festival honoring #Mercury #Hermes, oft syncretised with #Antinous. We remember that jackal-headed #Hermanubis was worshiped at Hermopolis on the Nile where #Antinoos died. Coins were minted showing Antinous as Hermes with a caduceus. 🪷