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<p>[QUOTE="blooey, post: 1569209, member: 12007"]I read, earlier on in my quest that the goat was associated with Mercury, so it seemed natural to see it in place in the scene ...after reading your last post I revisited the Wikipedia page where I read about the association:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><i>Mercury had essentially the same aspects as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes" rel="nofollow">Hermes</a>, wearing winged shoes (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talaria" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talaria" rel="nofollow">talaria</a>) and a winged hat (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petasos" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petasos" rel="nofollow">petasos</a>), and carrying the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus" rel="nofollow">caduceus</a>, a herald's staff with two entwined snakes that was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo" rel="nofollow">Apollo</a>'s gift to Hermes. He was often accompanied by a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockerel" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockerel" rel="nofollow">cockerel</a>, herald of the new day, a ram or <b>goat</b>, symbolizing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility" rel="nofollow">fertility</a>, and a tortoise, referring to Mercury's legendary invention of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyre" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyre" rel="nofollow">lyre</a> from a tortoise shell.</i></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="blooey, post: 1569209, member: 12007"]I read, earlier on in my quest that the goat was associated with Mercury, so it seemed natural to see it in place in the scene ...after reading your last post I revisited the Wikipedia page where I read about the association: [INDENT][I]Mercury had essentially the same aspects as [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes']Hermes[/URL], wearing winged shoes ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talaria']talaria[/URL]) and a winged hat ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petasos']petasos[/URL]), and carrying the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus']caduceus[/URL], a herald's staff with two entwined snakes that was [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo']Apollo[/URL]'s gift to Hermes. He was often accompanied by a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockerel']cockerel[/URL], herald of the new day, a ram or [B]goat[/B], symbolizing [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility']fertility[/URL], and a tortoise, referring to Mercury's legendary invention of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyre']lyre[/URL] from a tortoise shell.[/I][/INDENT][/QUOTE]
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