Hermes Winged Wayfarer – Hermes / Mercury
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Hermes_Winged_Wayfarer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes
https://www.ftd.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_(Jay_Garrick)
Hermes Winged Wayfarer is the God who guides Wizards through the deep waters of Atlantea during their attempt to complete the Second Trial of the Immortal Games.
Hermes is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Hermes is considered the herald of the gods. He is also considered the protector of human heralds, travelers, thieves, merchants, and orators. He is able to move quickly and freely between the worlds of the mortal and the divine, aided by his winged sandals. Hermes plays the role of the psychopomp or “soul guide”—a conductor of souls into the afterlife.
In myth, Hermes functions as the emissary and messenger of the gods, and is often presented as the son of Zeus and Maia, the Pleiad. Hermes is regarded as “the divine trickster,” about which the Homeric Hymn to Hermes offers the most well-known account.
His attributes and symbols include the herma, the rooster, the tortoise, satchel or pouch, talaria (winged sandals), and winged helmet or simple petasos, as well as the palm tree, goat, the number four, several kinds of fish, and incense. However, his main symbol is the caduceus, a winged staff intertwined with two snakes copulating and carvings of the other gods. His attributes had previously influenced the earlier Etruscan god Turms, a name borrowed from the Greek “herma”.
In Roman mythology and religion many of Hermes’ characteristics belong to Mercury, a name derived from the Latin merx, meaning “merchandise,” and the origin of the words “merchant” and “commerce.”
Please note Hermes Winged Wayfarer’s helmet and sandals. These are Hermes’ defining wardrobe. The winged helmet and sandals have found their way into pop culture in the FTD logo and the costume of the Golden Age superhero Flash.
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Note the winged helmet and boots
Hermes Winged Wayfarer image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
Hermes Ingenui is borrowed from Wikipedia and is in the public domain
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