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[Alexandr Korol]

In Germanic paganism, the god Odin was also associated with the planet Mercury and with Wednesday.
In Hebrew, Mercury was called ‘Kokhav Hama’ (Heb. המח בכוכ, ‘the Sun Planet’). In Ancient China, Mercury was called Chenxing, ‘the Morning Star.’ It was associated with the direction north, the color black, and the element of water. Indian mythology used the name Budha for Mercury. This god, the son of Soma, ruled over Wednesday.”

“Medieval observations of Mercury in the northern parts of Europe were complicated by the fact that the planet is always seen during twilight — either in the morning or evening — against a dusky sky and quite low above the horizon (especially in northern latitudes). Its best visibility period (elongation) occurs several times a year (lasting about 10 days). Even during these periods, it is not easy to see Mercury with the naked eye (it appears as a relatively dim star against a rather bright background of the sky). There is a story that Nicolaus Copernicus, who observed astronomical objects under the northern latitudes and foggy climate of the Baltics, regretted that he had never seen Mercury in his lifetime. This legend arose from the fact that his work On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres contains no examples of observations of Mercury, although he described the planet using the results of other astronomers’ observations.”

Well then, when I read Wikipedia, I understand that Mercury is one of the elements. So I’ve discovered morning, day, evening, and night — if decoded, these correspond to the elements: water, air, earth, and ether, that is, four elements. The fifth element is the Sun, that is, fire. The sixth element, then, is cold, silver, that is, the Moon. And what is the seventh? The seventh, then, is Mercury — that is, the star, the planet Mercury. What’s curious is that it can only be seen during twilight and that it is one of the main elements, meaning again one of the manifestations of governing the world, one of the manifestations of God. So it turns out there is the God of the Sun, the God of the Moon — that is, one version of Him, another version of Him — and the third version, then, is Mercury.