Hermes - Cult

Hermēs (pronounced HUR-mees; Greek: Έρμης: "pile of marker stones"), in Greek mythology, is the god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of orators, literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures and invention and commerce in general, of the cunning of thieves. As a translator, he is the messenger from the gods to humans. A lucky find was a hermaion. An interpreter who bridges the boundaries with strangers is a hermeneus. Hermes gives us our word "hermeneutics" for the art of interpreting hidden meaning. ...

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• Hermes - Cult
• Hermes - Hermai
• Hermes - Hermes' iconography
• Hermes - Birth
• Hermes - Hermēs' offspring
• Hermes - Abderus
• Hermes - Autolycus
• Hermes - Hermaphroditus
• Hermes - Priapus
• Hermes - Other stories
• Hermes - Herse/Aglaulus/Pandrosus
• Hermes - Argus/Io
• Hermes - Other roles
• Hermes - Hermes in Islamic tradition

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General article: Cult (religion). Though temples to Hermēs existed throughout Greece, a center of his cult was at Pheneos in Arcadia, where festivals in his honor were called Hermoea. As a crosser of boundaries, Hermēs Psychopompos' ("conductor of the soul") was a psychopomp, meaning he brought newly-dead souls to the underworld, Hades. In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Hermes conducts the Kore safely back to Demeter. He also br ...

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Hermes, Hermes - Cult, Hermes - Hermai, Hermes - Hermes' iconography, Hermes - Birth, Hermes - Hermēs' offspring, Hermes - Abderus, Hermes - Autolycus, Hermes - Hermaphroditus, Hermes - Priapus, Hermes - Other stories, Hermes - Herse/Aglaulus/Pandrosus, Hermes - Argus/Io, Hermes - Other roles, Hermes - Hermes in Islamic tradition

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