It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"[Zeus] commanded that glorious Hermes should be lord over all birds of prey and grim-eyed lions, and boars with gleaming tusks, and over [herder's] dogs and all the herds and flocks that the wide earth nourishes, and over all sheep."
Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes 560
🏛 Hermes-Mercurius, marble relief made by Artus Quellinus in the 17th century CE.
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