Dropping this for Napa Anon. Was looking at wine labels and came across this one. The Diddler??? What is wrong with these people? From Wiki: Caduceus Cellars is a winery in Jerome, Arizona, United States. It is owned by Maynard James Keenan, who is best known as the vocalist for Grammy Award-winning progressive metal band Tool. He is descended from Northern Italian winemakers.[1] While the winery is named after caduceus, an ancient symbol for commerce and staff of the Greek god Hermes, the vineyard is named Merkin Vineyards, after a pubic wig (merkin).[2]
Looked up Caduceus and on the NIH website found this explanation: The confusion starts with the use of Caduceus and Rod of Asclepius. The Caduceus is a symbol of Hermes or Mercury in Greek and Roman mythology. Caduceus symbol is identified with thieves, merchants, and messengers, and Mercury is said to be a patron of thieves and outlaws, not a desirable protector of physicians.[8] The symbol originated when Mercury once attempted to stop a fight between two snakes by throwing his rod at them, whereupon they twined themselves around the rod, and the symbol was born.[2,8,9] The Rod of Asclepius belongs to Aesculapius, who was the revered Greek god of healing.
So a wine named for the patron of thieves and a vineyard named for a PUBIC wig. Not creepy at all. If you look closely at the label, it appears that there is someone under the grape cluster….facing the main figure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus_Cellars
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4439707/