lets do a *r3b00t* flim, get dat easy money......... call it "THE DIRECTOR".. and we can make it all "new and improved" and shit.... yeh, thats the ticket

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Mercury (/ˈmɜːrkjʊri/; Latin: Mercurius [mɛrˈkʊ.ri.ʊs] is a major Roman god, being one of the Dii Consentes within the ancient Roman pantheon. He is the patron god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence (and thus poetry), messages/communication (including divination), travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery and thieves; he is also the guide of souls to the underworld.  He was considered the son of Maia and Jupiter in Roman mythology. His name is possibly related to the Latin word merx ("merchandise"; cf. merchant, commerce, etc.), mercari (to trade), and merces (wages); another possible connection is the Proto-Indo-European root merĝ- for "boundary, border" (cf. Old English "mearc", Old Norse "mark" and Latin "margō") and Greek οὖρος (by analogy of Arctūrus/Ἀρκτοῦρος), as the "keeper of boundaries," referring to his role as bridge between the upper and lower worlds. He is often depicted holding the caduceus in his left hand. Similar to his Greek equivalent (Hermes) he was awarded the caduceus by Apollo who handed him a magic wand, which later turned into the caduceus.

Mercury did not appear among the numinous di indigetes of early Roman religion. Rather, he subsumed the earlier Dei Lucrii as Roman religion was syncretized with Greek religion during the time of the Roman Republic, starting around the 4th century BC. From the beginning, Mercury had essentially the same aspects as Hermes, wearing winged shoes (talaria) and a winged hat (petasos), and carrying the caduceus, a herald's staff with two entwined snakes that was Apollo's gift to Hermes. He was often accompanied by a cockerel, herald of the new day, a ram or goat, symbolizing fertility, and a tortoise, referring to Mercury's legendary invention of the lyre from a tortoise shell.

Like Hermes, he was also a god of messages, eloquence and of trade, particularly of the grain trade. Mercury was also considered a god of abundance and commercial success, particularly in Gaul, where he was said to have been particularly revered.[3] He was also, like Hermes, the Romans' psychopomp, leading newly deceased souls to the afterlife. Additionally, Ovid wrote that Mercury carried Morpheus' dreams from the valley of Somnus to sleeping humans.

 

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The god they accord the greatest worship is Mercury. There are very many images of this god; they call him the inventor of all the arts and the guide on roads and journeys. They believe that he has the greatest power over the acquisition of money and over commerce in general. After him ranks Apollo, Mars, Jupiter, and Minerva. About these deities they hold nearly the same beliefs as other peoples: that Apollo cures sickness; that Minerva passes down the beginnings of the arts and handicrafts; that Jupiter governs the divine realm; that Mars wages war.

 

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The god that Caesar identified with Mercury is the god Lug (Lugh). While we must beware of oversimplification on Caesar’s part, and though much of his evidence must be treated with great care, Caesar’s depiction of the stature of the god that he equated with Mercury seems accurate; among the Celts there were more monuments to this god than to any other.

In one tale the god Lug comes to the court of Nuadha, king of the Tuatha, and asks for a place at court. This story underscores the claims that Caesar made for this god: that he is an inventor of all crafts. When Lug arrives at court, the doorman askes him what his special skill is. Lug replies that he is a carpenter. When the doorman dismisses him by remarking that they already have a member of court skilled in carpentry, Lug declares that he is also a smith. When Lug learns that the house also has the services of a master smith as well, he states, in turn, that he is a musician, a poet, a storyteller, a sorcerer, a metallurgist, a cupbearer, and so on. When Lug is told that for each of these activities the court enjoys the services of an expert within, Lug retorts that he alone is the one individual who has expertise in all these arts; in the event Lug is allowed a place at the court of the Tuatha and will become king of the Tuatha after Nuadha.

Lug’s name means “the radiant one.” Lug’s most famous exploit is his defeat of the one-eyed Balor (a sun-god) with his slingshot. And though some see in this epithet and in his defeat of his enemy Balor evidence that Lug became himself a sun-god, this idea is generally dismissed.

 

A principal epithet of Lug is Lampfada “he of the long arm.” This epithet accords well with his skill at striking his enemies at a distance with his spear or slingshot, his chief weapons. He defeats demonic forces in the Celtic Otherworld.

 

He is a beautiful, young god and will become the father of the great Celtic hero, Cú Chulainn. Scholars have seen affinities between Lug and the Teutonic Odin and the Indian Varuna, and it may be that he goes back in some form to early Indo-European culture. It is certainly easy to understand that though Lug seems to be the chief god of the Celtic pantheon, Caesar equated him not with Jupiter, which would have been an easy identification, but with Mercury. In fact, the ever-widening spheres of Lug’s activity, his association with all human knowledge and culture, do remind one of the same kind of evolution of Greek Hermes into Hermes Trismegistus.

 

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