Hermes - Hermes' iconography

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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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 ...

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Hermes, Hermes - Blue Oyster 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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Hermes - Abderus. Abderus was a son of Hermes who was devoured by the Mares of Diomedes. He had gone to the Mares with his friend, Heracles. Hermes - Autolycus. Autolycus, the Prince of Thieves, was a son of Hermes and grandfather of Odysseus. Hermes - Hermaphroditus. Hermaphroditus was the third son of Hermēs, with Aphrodite. He was changed into a hermaphrodite by the gods, responding to the pleas of Salmacis, whose love Hermaphroditus spurned. Hermes - Priapus. ...

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Hermes, Hermes - Blue Oyster 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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Hermes - Herse/Aglaulus/Pandrosus. When Hermēs loved Herse, a jealous Aglaulus stood between them and refused to move. Hermēs changed her to stone. Cephalus was the son of Hermes and Herse. Hermēs also had a son, Ceryx, with Herse's other sister, Pandrosus. With Aglaulus, Hermēs was the father of Eumolpus. Hermes - Argus/Io. Zeus loved the Argive princess Io and changed her into a cow to protect her from Hera. Hera suspected his deception and asked for the cow as a present. ...

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Hermes, Hermes - Blue Oyster 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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Hermes was born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia to Maia. As the story is told in the Homeric Hymn, the Hymn to Hermes, Maia was a nymph, but Greeks generally applied the name to a midwife or a wise and gentle old woman, so the nymph appears to have been an ancient one, one of the Pleiades taking refuge in a cave of Arcadia. The god was precocious: on the day of his birth, by midday he had invented the lyre, using the shell of a tortoise, and by nightfall he had rustled the immortal cattle of Apollo. For the first Olympian sacrifice, the taboos surrounding the sacred kine of Apollo had to be transgressed, and the trickster god of ...

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Hermes, Hermes - Blue Oyster 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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