09/05/2026
Plenty. He was the god of wind, wisdom, and the morning star — the planet Venus — and he was credited with creating humanity itself, shaping the first people from bones he stole from the underworld.
His most famous feat was the self-sacrifice: he burned himself alive on a pyre, then rose again as the morning star. That cycle of death and rebirth made him the patron of priests, calendars, and the arts.
Want the full story of that sacrifice, or the one where he steals the bones?
Can you identify the figure without looking it up? I don’t think I could with this information. But maybe a Mormon might know. ….
