It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

"It is said that after death, the tutelary god (daimon) of each person, to whom he had been allotted in life, leads him to a place where the dead are gathered together [i.e. Hermes]; then they are judged and depart to the other world with the guide."
Plato, Phaedo 107c

🏛 #Hermes weighing souls, Athenian red-figure amphora from Nola, ca 460 BCE, by the Nikon Painter

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