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Hermes
Hermes (hrmz)
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
(hrmz
trsme-jstes, trz-) 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-mtk) also hermetical
(--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 hermticus, alchemical, from
Medieval
Latin Herms Trismegistus.]
- hermetically 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
ambassadorialpatron 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 bothHermes 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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