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Homeric Hymn to Hermes
Anonymous (Homeric hymn)
translation · c. 6th–5th century BCE
Homeric Hymn 4, to Hermes.
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Hellenic religion
Hermes belongs to Hellenic religion.
The Homeric hymn presents Hermes as a Greek god of theft, speech, and the newborn’s cunning, born in a cave and already crossing boundaries.
from Anonymous (Homeric hymn) · Homeric Hymn to Hermes, c. 6th–5th century BCE
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Hermes is associated with Trickster.
The hymn’s Hermes steals Apollo’s cattle on his first day and talks his way out of it. The trick is a Greek poetic role, not a Yoruba or Tlingit one.
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Hermes is associated with Knowledge.
The hymn’s Hermes invents the lyre and bargains with Apollo. The knowledge is craft and speech, not Hermetic revelation.
from Anonymous (Homeric hymn) · Homeric Hymn to Hermes, c. 6th–5th century BCE
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Apollo is connected to Hermes.
The Homeric hymn has Hermes steal Apollo’s cattle and then settle with him. The two gods share a poem of bargaining, not an identity.
from Anonymous (Homeric hymn) · Homeric Hymn to Hermes, c. 6th–5th century BCE
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Cave is associated with Hermes.
The Homeric hymn has Hermes born in a cave. The cave is a Greek poetic birthplace, not a tomb Duat.
from Anonymous (Homeric hymn) · Homeric Hymn to Hermes, c. 6th–5th century BCE
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Talaria appears in Hellenic religion.
The Homeric Hymn to Hermes has the god make immortal golden sandals. Greek hymn’s sandals under the later Latin name talaria, not generic shoes and not a second Hermes identity walk.
from Anonymous (Homeric hymn) · Homeric Hymn to Hermes, c. 6th–5th century BCE
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Chelys appears in Hellenic religion.
The Homeric Hymn to Hermes has Hermes make the tortoise-shell lyre, the chelys. A named hymnic instrument, not the harp of Orpheus and not Talaria from the same hymn.
from Anonymous (Homeric hymn) · Homeric Hymn to Hermes, c. 6th–5th century BCE
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The Homeric Hymn to Hermes gives the god his immortal sandals. A named footwear of that god, not the caduceus, and not Icarus’ wings.
from Anonymous (Homeric hymn) · Homeric Hymn to Hermes, c. 6th–5th century BCE
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The Homeric Hymn to Hermes has the god make the tortoise-lyre. A named first lyre of that god, not the harp of Orpheus, and not a generic lyre.
from Anonymous (Homeric hymn) · Homeric Hymn to Hermes, c. 6th–5th century BCE
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Alchemy · Late antiquity
Hermes is historically related to Mercury (metal).
The god’s Latin name was given to the metal. Hymn and flask remain two files.
from Tabula Smaragdina (Emerald Tablet), medieval Latin tradition (Arabic antecedents); Anonymous (Homeric hymn) · Homeric Hymn to Hermes, c. 6th–5th century BCE
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