What deity did Julius Caesar identify with the Roman God Mercury?

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Lugus http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9049306 Woden http://www.timelessmyths.com/norse/teutonic.html and possibly these: Eusus Iovantucarus Artaios Arvernus Cissonius Gebrinius Moccus Visucius Rosmerta http://enchantedtempleofisis.com/roman.htm Jan 21 05, 2:26 AM

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My answer: I believe Julius Caesar identified the dual-faced and androgyne creator-deity Tuisco with the Roman God Mercury. In ancient Greece, before his role as protector of merchants and travelers, Hermes/Mercury was a phallic god, associated with fertility, luck, roads and borders. His name comes from the word herma (plural hermai) referring to a square or rectangular pillar of stone, terracotta, or bronze; a bust of Hermes' head, usually with a beard, sat on the top of the pillar, and male genitals adorned the base. The hermai were used as boundary markers on roads and borders. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herma) A number of bi-faced hermes exist and we must admit the examples given look like a sculpture found at Roquepertuse near Marseille. However the sculpture found at Roquepertuse is asymmetrical in size and indicates an androgyne symbol. The sculpture is named Hermes of Roqueperuse. (Documentation see: http://velinet.free.fr/cult/roquepertuse.htm) Archeologists named the sculpture "Hermes" as an equivalent to the bi-faced Hermic statues and Roman Termini. Other French archeologist point out a 7 % difference in size between both heads and claim the statue to be a male-female portrait, in which a bird’s beak may be interfering. The statue is interpreted as a medium for some kind of a burial ceremony. The faces originally were painted red, the eyes and the hair being indicated by black color. Obviously the French archeologists are not aware of androgyne deities. German etymologists already declared the German crator god Tuisco androgyne around 1844. Other equivalent androgyne gods (among these even Janus and Jahwe) have been documented to create man according to their image and to split them into male and female. A separation phase of this kind seems to be taking place in the above statue, found in a Celtic sanctuary. According to these legends the statue might be seen as an image of Mannus, but equally an image of its Creator Tuisco. In "De Bello Gallico" Cesar reports of many sculptures devoted to Hermes/Mercury and probably these sculptures have been dual-faced just like the Hermes of Roquepertuse. However there is another bi-faced deity Janus in Roman history, which is equally androgyne. In Roman mythology, Janus (or Ianus) was the god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings. His most apparent remnants in modern culture are his namesakes, the month of January and the caretaker of doors and halls: Janitor. Janus is considered as the God of all beginnings. In Roman sermons Janus used to be called in the very first place, even before Jupiter. Though he was usually depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions (Janus Geminus (twin Janus) or Bifrons), in some places he was Janus Quadrifrons (the four-faced). His two faces (originally, one was always bearded, one clean-shaven; later both bearded) originally represented the sun and the moon, and he was usually shown with a key. The sun and the moon however also used to be androgyne symbols representing man and woman. The Romans associated Janus with the Etruscan deity Ani. However, he was one of the few Roman gods who had no ready-made counterpart, or analogous mythology. We can find in Greece Janus-like heads of gods related to Hermes, perhaps forming a compound god: Hermathena (a herm of Athena), Hermares, Hermaphroditus, Hermanubis, Hermalcibiades, and so on. In the case of these compounds it is disputed whether they indicated a herm with the head of Athena, or with a Janus-like head of both Hermes and Athena, or a figure compounded from both deities. However these bi-faced figures may also be seen as androgyne symbols. Wikipedia-link to Janus: http://www.livius.org/ja-jn/janus/janus.html These details have convinced me to believe Julius Caesar identified the dual-faced and androgyne creator-deity Tuisco with the Roman God Mercury. For further details and discussions to androgyne religion please visit: http://groups.google.com/group/androgyne-religion Dec 11 07, 10:07 AM

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