Picture No | 10038277 |
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Description | Hermes - Mercury |
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The messenger of the gods, but here as HERMES TRISMEGISTUS (= thrice-greatest), perceived by Neoplatonists as the presiding deity of alchemy, possessing magical and oracular powers
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Source | Mussard, Historia deorum fatidicorum (1675) page 74 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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