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Hermes
Hermes (hûr´mêz)
noun
Greek Mythology.
The god of commerce, invention,
cunning, and theft, who also served as messenger, scribe, and herald for
the other gods.
Hermes Trismegistus (hûr´mêz
trîs´me-jîs´tes, trîz´-) noun
Mythology.
The Egyptian
god Thoth,
the legendary author of works on alchemy,
astrology, and magic.
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Hermes
Hermes, in Greek mythology,
messenger of the gods, son of the god Zeus and of Maia,
the daughter of the Titan Atlas. As Zeus's servant, Hermes had winged sandals
and carried a caduceus.
He brought the souls of the dead to the underworld
and was also the god of commerce, the protector of traders and herds, and
the deity of athletes. He was believed to be responsible for both good
luck and wealth. Hermes was also a dangerous foe, a trickster, and a thief.
hermetic
hermetic (her-mèt´îk) also hermetical
(-î-kel) adjective
1.Completely sealed, especially against the escape
or entry of air.
2.Impervious to outside interference or influence:
the hermetic confines of an isolated life.
3.Often Hermetic Mythology. a. Of or relating
to Hermes Trismegistus or the works ascribed to him. b. Having to do with
the occult sciences, especially alchemy; magical.
[New Latin hermêticus, alchemical, from Medieval
Latin Hermês Trismegistus.]
- hermet´ically adverb
It is Hermes who bridges the gap
between the metalinguistic and the sublinguistic in the form of the message, language
itself, the medium; he is the trickster
who leads in misleading, the tremendum that echoes through the broken word.
Hermes is therefore political, or rather ambassadorial—patron of intelligence
and cryptography as well as an alchemy
that seeks only the embodiment of the real.
Hermes is between text and image, master of the hieroglyphs that are simultaneously
both—Hermes is their significance, their translatability. As one who goes "up
and down" between spirits and humans, Hermes Psychopomp is the shamanic
consciousness, the medium of direct experience, and the interface
between these other forms and the political. "Hermetic" can also mean
"unseen".
- Hakim
Bey - _The Obelisk_
'Do you not know, Asclepius, that Egypt is an of heaven? Or so to speak more exactly, in Egypt all the operations of the powers which rule and work in heaven have been transferred down to earth below?'
(from Thoth/'Hermetic Texts')
Already in Homer, Hermes is a multitasking character.
The figure who flits through the _Iliad_ as a messenger and thief becomes in
_The Odyssey_
a guide of souls and a shamanic
healer, curing Odysseus from Circe's witchy poison. But the god really
doesn't find himself at center stage until the pseudo-Homeric _Hymn to Hermes_,
written around the sixth century b.c.e. The poem begins with the nymph Maya,
lately loved by Zeus, giving birth to a boisterous child. Leaping instantly
out of his crib, the babe Hermes dashes into the outside world, where he happens
upon a turtle. He kills the creature, takies up its shell, and invents
the lyre, becoming the "first to manufacture songs."
- Erik Davis - _Techgnosis: Myth, Magic
& Mysticism In The Age Of Information_
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Hermes, for to you beyond all other gods it is dearest to be man's companion... - _The Iliad_
avant garde experimental release _Songs From The Hermetic
Theatre_ by John
Zorn on Tzadik (2001)
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Maya
Deren explaining her approach to films: "what i do in my films is
very... i think very distinctively, i think they are the films of a woman,
and i think that they're characteristic time
quality, is the time quality of a woman. i think that the strength
of men is their great sense of immediacy.
they are a "now" creature. and a woman has strength to wait.
'cause she's had to wait. she has to wait 9 months of the concept
of a child. time is built into her body in the sense of becomingness.
and she sees everything in terms of it being in the stage of becoming.
she raises a child knowing not what it is at any moment but seeing always
the person that it will become. her whole life from her very beginning
it's built into her a sense of becoming. now in any time form, this
is a very important sense. i think that my films, putting as much
stress as they do, upon the constant metamorphosis. one image is always
becoming another. it is what is happening that is important in my
films, not what is at any moment. this is a woman's time sense and
i think it happens more in my films than in almost anyone else's..."
Mercury)
was called a "petasos."
by Remy Zero
off of _Villa Elaine_ (1998)Hermetic
Order Of The Golden Dawn
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