Mithras, Hermes, Mercury, Prometheus are all the same guy. And I'm pretty sure he's also referred to as Lucifer.
The staff represents the spinal column, The bird or pinecone on top represents the pineal gland. The elite controllers have always known about the innate power within the human body which is electrical in nature and sexual in its origin. The wings and snakes represent the uniting of duality within us, male and female, ida and pingala, syching up the hemispheres of the brain and opening th Third Eye which leads to Total Gnosis