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Amy/Mizono
Ami/Sailor Mercury
Here, mizu means water. Sailor
Mercury attacks using water's elements. a-mi means "sub
beauty" or "net". The -no shows possession, so Mercury's name
translates to be "beauty of the water".
She�s based from god of trade,
profit, merchants and travelers and in addition on Greek Myth,
son of Zeus and Maia and a god messenger. His attributes are
the cadaverous (a staff with 2 intertwined snakes) and a
purse, symbol of his connection with commerce.
Roman messenger god and god of
merchants and travellers. Equated with the Greek Hermes. Son
of Jupiter and Maia. He had a temple on the Aventine Hill in
Rome, said to date from 495 BC, as well as a shrine in the
Circus Maximus. His festival was the Mercuralia,observed on
May 15. Mercury is depicted as holding a purse,symbolic of his
association with commerce, as well as the winged sandals
(talaria), winged cap (petasus) and staff (caduceus) taken
over from the Greek Hermes. According to Juvenal, posts topped
by marble heads of Mercury were placed at the intersections of
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