The scientist closed the flask with a hermetic seal. The word is used both literally and figuratively: Hermetic – an adjective meaning “airtight” or “impervious to outside influences.” The adverb is hermetically. Sometimes it was surmounted by the head of the god. Herm – a four-sided pillar used to mark boundaries. Various magical and alchemical writings came to be associated with Hermes Trismegistus who, it was believed, invented a magic seal to keep air out of vessels containing magical compounds. Īnother name for Hermes, or a perhaps a god derived from him, is Hermes Trismegistus – “Hermes Thrice-blessed.” This concept of Hermes was a combination of the Greek god and Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom. Most of the stories in Metamorphoses are retellings of traditional tales, but Ovid probably made up the story about Salmacis. The attacker’s prayer that they not be parted resulted in the permanent fusion of their two bodies.
According to Ovid in his Metamorphoses, this son of Hermes was attacked and raped by an unconventional naiad (female nature spirit) named Salmacis. Hermes and the goddess Aphrodite had a son whose name is a combination of theirs: Hermaphroditos. And Homer ‘winged words’.” –Suidas, Greek lexicographer. On account of this they also make him winged, as if to be swift. For the word is engendered from mind and sense. Hermes…son of Zeus and Maia, which is, of mind and sense. He was also a god of science, art, speech, eloquence, and writing. Used to track viewed products and categories on our store.In Greek myth Hermes, son of Zeus and Maia, was not just the patron god of thieves, merchants, and boundaries. YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.
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