According to mythology, Mercury was the swiftest of the gods, and the one that merchants prayed to for success in their commercial transactions. And Hermes was known as the messenger of the gods in Greek mythology. It has next to no atmosphere , which means it has radical swings between hot and cold temperatures every day.
Since Mercury is smaller than Earth, it has less gravity. If you weigh 70 pounds on Earth, you'd weigh only about 27 pounds on Mercury! Mercury is composed of mostly heavy metals, such as iron. That's only appropriate , since the planet gave rise to the name of one of the chemical elements found on Earth: mercury.
Mercury — the chemical element — is a metal with the symbol Hg. Hg stands for Hydrargyrum , which means liquid silver. The element mercury is sometimes also called quicksilver. Mercury is one of the few elements — and the only metal — that is a liquid at regular room temperature and pressure. A heavy, silvery metal, mercury and its compounds are highly poisonous.
Pure mercury is rarely found. Instead, most mercury is found in the form of an ore called cinnabar mercuric sulfide or HgS. To extract the mercury , cinnabar is heated and then its vapor is distilled into liquid mercury. Mercury is used in a wide variety of products today. Some of the most popular include thermometers, barometers, mercury vapor lamps, mercury switches, pesticides, batteries, pigments, and dental products.
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He emerged in the mythological tradition as a freewheeling personality who produced as many problems as he solved. In this cruelly humorous story, an old peasant named Battus caught the trickster god in a compromising situation. One day, Mercury stole a herd of cattle and hid them in a nearby forest. Battus, meanwhile, watched the scene unfold from across the field. Seeing that Battus knew his secret, Mercury made him swear never to speak of the incident and to claim ignorance if anyone asked.
Battus agreed. Though Mercury took his leave, his trickery had just begun. To test the old man, he transformed himself into the figure of a country swain. He went to Battus and inquired about the herd, promising a healthy young bullock and heifer in exchange for retrieving the cattle:.
Tempted by this prize, Battus neglected his earlier vow and eagerly told the disguised Mercury what had transpired. A smiling Mercury revealed himself to Battus and transformed the old man into stone. Me to my self dost thou betray?
A similar story featured Mercury stealing cattle from Apollo. When Apollo learned of the theft, he approached Jupiter and asked him to settle the feud. Jupiter called Mercury and Apollo together and order Mercury to return the stolen cattle.
In the midst of these proceedings, Apollo noticed that Mercury was carrying a funny-looking, stringed musical instrument. To support this in mythological terms, a story evolved that Hermes once used the cadeuceus to separate two fighting snakes which forthwith twined themselves together in peace. The cadeuceus is said to be able to charm men's eyes into sleep.
Hermes also carries a purse actually, more like a money-bag The purse signifies his role as the Greek god of riches, trade and good fortune and the Roman god of trade, profit, merchants and travellers. The Hermes family. No wife of Hermes has been clearly identified and he was rather promiscuous. With the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite , another offspring of Zeus, he had a daughter, Peitho , the personification of persuasion and seduction.
It appears that they had at least two other daughters, Tyche and Eunomia. They also had a son, Hermaphroditus , with both masculine and feminine traits. A liaison with Penelope produced a son, Pan who is well known as the pipe-playing god of shepherds. As befits the patron of thieves, another son of Hermes was the great thief Autolycus. Autolycus was the offspring of Chione and Hermes , and the grandfather of the famous hero Odysseus.
Ancient and Roman mythology. The god we now know as Mercury has been known at least since the time of the Sumerians 3rd millennium BC.
Here he was called Gud , a god favouring rains, agricultural fertility and harvest abundance.
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