Anubis is the Egyptian god of the commemoration of the dead, the funerary cult.  He is visualized as the hybridization of a dog, or jackal, and a man.  His position is later eclipsed by Osiris and Anubis becomes the Conductor of Souls. Anubis was highly venerated in the Early Dynastic period, at the beginning of the Old Kingdom.  Anubis’ titles include Lord of the Dead, He Who is Upon His Mountain, Lord of the Sacred Land, Foremost of the Westerners, He Who Is in the Place of Embalming and Protector of Graves. 

Anubis is known as Hermes to the Greek and Roman cultures.  Hislop affirms that Her-mes is an Egyptian term for “Son of Ham,” a descendant of Cain.  In the Odyssey, Hermes appears as the messenger of the gods and conductor of the dead to Hades.  Hermes is the founder of the Egyptian religion, the one who encourages the Egyptian people to speak with the gods. He is the god of alchemy and, ultimately, responsible for the Masons, Chaldeans, Magi, Soothsayers, Astrologers of Babylon, Priests of Egypt, Greek and Roman Philosophers, the Brahmins and Gymnosophists of India, Druids and Bards of Briton and the Gual.  Every one of the previously listed adopt Hermes as their patron saint.  Hermes traditionally carries the Caduceus which features two snakes winding around an often-winged staff.  Hermes’ Caduceus also symbolizes The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  Hermes Staff represents a sort of musing between heaven and earth; just as the World Tree, Mount Hermon, the Great Pyramids and Ziggurats do.  Homer describes Hermes as “the helper, cunning beyond all others in his mind.”  This is the same description of the serpent in the Garden of Eden. 

Thoth is the Egyptian Keeper of Knowledge, AKA the Silent One.  He is their god of writing and illumination.  He is perceived as a hybrid being, having the head of an Ibis and the body of a human.  An Ibis is a bird often seen on the riverbanks of the Nile River, “writing” in the sand with its beak.  Thoth is also the “Lord of Time,” “he whom recons years and measures the earth,” “scribe of the gods” and “lord of sacred words” and the Pyramids are his sanctuary. Thoth and Hermes Trismegistus are interchangeable in the Mystery Schools of the Adepts. 

Mercury wears a winged hat and guides the dead into the underworld.  His winged shoes – such as the Nike shoe logo – make Mercury the swift messenger who travels between worlds.  Oddly enough, angels are considered The Lord God Almighty’s messengers.  Is this “messenger” between worlds a fallen angel?  Mercury is also known as the leaping angel, who escapes the fiery destruction of Mars and hides in the embrace of his adopted mother, Gaia (Earth), who also houses the evil spirits of the damned.  Mercury, the provider of knowledge to humankind, is often depicted with a snake coiled around his staff.  In the Bible, Nebuchadnezzar translates as the prince, or prophet to the god Nebu, the son of Marduk, later Mercury.    

Flash is an American comics hero.  He is the modern Mercury (see above).  He has a lighting bolt on his chest, which symbolizes the one Jesus saw falling from heaven like lighting.  Flash is an amalgamation of all the attributes you’ve read above.  He’s a god, not man, is able to move swiftly between realms, defying the laws of physics all men are held to.  He has the ability to think and process information (knowledge) quickly.  Flash can grab the lighting that discharges off him and use it as a weapon.   The Metal group Metallica has an album titled, “Ride the Lightning.”  This is a blasphemous title, because riding the lightning is what Satan did when he was cast out of heaven by God.  Flash rides the lightning.