Blessing:
Hermes values wit and daring, dependability and promptness. He despises tediousness and idleness, and when he sees this setting in, will shake things up, just to see what happens. He aids thieves, magicians, messengers, gamblers, and public speakers.
Epithets:
Agreiphontes (Argus-Slaying), Dioktoros (Messenger), Enodios (of the Road), Eriounios (Luck-Bringer), Kerykes (Herald), Khthonios (of the Earth), Kourotrophos (Protector of Youth), Kranaios, Kriophoros (Ram-Bearer), Logios (of Speech), Nomios (Protector of Flocks), Propulaios (Before the Gates), Psukhopompos (Conveyer of Souls), Trismegestos (Thrice-Greatest)
Symbols:
caduceus, winged boots, a cap, 4
Animal(s):
ram, boar
Sacrifices:
frankincense, storax, mastic, white sandal, mace, moly, nettles, asafoetida, ginger, opal, mercury, marjolane
Primary Cult Center(s):
Arcadia
Festivals:
Hermaia (celebrated on various dates)
Khutroi: 13 Anthestrion (February-March)
4th day of the month
Ways to honor:
Be cunning and daring. Work smarter, not harder. Study divination and magic - both of the sacred and the stage variety. Gamble. Travel, especially if you find yourself in a rut. If you drop change, leave it. If you find some, pick it up and thank Hermes for the gift. Always deliver messages entrusted to you, especially those to and from the dying. Sit with a dying friend or relative. Be their guide to the next world.
For more information:
Aeschylus' Eumenides, and Prometheus Bound
Apollodorus' Library 1.6.2-3, 2.1.3, 2.4.2-3, 3.2.1, 3.4.3, 3.10.2
Dio Chrysostom's Orations 78.19
Euripides' Ion
Herodotus' The Histories 2.51, 2.67, 2.138
Hesiod's Theogony 440, 938
Hesiod's Works and Days 65
Homer's Iliad 24.330, 24.334-469, 24.679-694, 182, 437-439, 461
Homer's Odyssey 5.145, 5.28-148, 8.320, 10.275-308, 24.1-10
Homeric Hymn to Demeter 2.334-384, 407
Homeric Hymn to Hermes 4
Homeric Hymn to Hestia 29
Hyginus' Fabulae 195
Hyginus' Poetica Astronomica 2.7, 2.16, 2.42
Ovid's Metamorphoses 2.685-835, 8.618-724, 11.303-317, 4.288-293
Ovid's Fasti 5.667
Pausanias' Description of Greece 1.24.3, 2.19.7, 2.3.4, 4.33.3, 5.19.5, 5.7.10, 7.20.3, 8.16.1, 8.17.5, 8.36.10 9.5.8, 9.30.1
Papyri Graeci Magicae 5.172-212, 5.403-407, 7.672-676, 7.919-924, 17b.5
Pindar's Olympian Odes 6.79-80
Pindar's Pythian Odes 2.10, 12
Plato's Cratylus 407e-408a
Plato's Phaedrus 264c
Sophocles' Searching Satyrs
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