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VENEREAL HERMAPHRODITE
Venus, Aphrodite, Aphrodisiac
Hermes, Hermetic, Herm
Mercury, Mercenary, Merchant
Before recorded history, poets already sang about Aphrodite (Venus) and her Cupid - about how when Cupid reached puberty, he developed a legendary excess of lust and became known as Eros - and how Eros was cured from his insatiable lust by the love he developed for a mortal maiden we know as Psyche. Cupid-Eros loved his Psyche so much that he even went to hell to rescue her. Poets also sing about Venus and Hermes (Mercury) having engendered a son-daughter known as Herm-Aphrodite. Since then, mortal heterosexual couples also engender, at times, offspring that resemble a Herma-Aphrodite.
In general, Venus is remembered for her beauty and by some, in particular for her beautiful buttocks. These admirers crafted the term callipygean by combining the notions in "calli" with those in "pyge" to denote a ravishing and plump, in this instance, a "deriere". Later others imitated the process and coined such terms as California, Calligraphy, Callisthenics, etc.
Hermes (Mercury) is remembered mainly for representing duality, ethics was foreign to him. Ancient representations are "bifrons" such as double faced stone road markers (Herms) readable from either road direction as well as double faced busts denoting dualities. Among common bifrons or herms are representations of Saturn - Janus (December - January) to denote past and future. Remarkably, Mercury is honored by merchants and thieves who seek to atone for their duplicitous unethical dealings.
The ancients linked Hermes-Merucury with wealth, thus with animal and human fertility. Even today, such link is expressed by the erections of obelisks such as that in Washington D.C. - this association, as shown below, the ancients represented far more graphically.
Below are some of more than 100 images posted in thes website concerned with Aphrodite and Hermes while Eros and Cupid and other perspectives of love, amor, and beauty are confronted separately.
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Venus wounded by Love by A .Carracci
Herm (Hermes) - British Museum
Mercury or Hermes - Louvre Museum
Venus of Milo - Louvre Museum
Bifrons of Venus - Eros - El Prado Museum
Hermaphrodite - Louvre Museum among many others
Aphrodite Kneeling - Louvre Museum
Hermaphrodite - El Prado Museum
Aphrodite Bathing - British Museum
Aphrodite of Knidos - Louvre Museum
