Why calling Hermes to ours project?

 

         Hermes, messenger or interpreter of the will of Zeus, (from there the Hermeneutic term) god of Greek mythology, correspondent to Roman Mercury. That way he was efficient and fast in the tasks that Zeus trusted on him, and we want the same qualities for ours Hermes, efficient and fast.

 

 

Other things about Hermes.

            Hermes, in Greek mythology, is the Olympian god of boundaries and of the travellers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of orators and wit, of literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures and invention and commerce in general, and of the cunning of thieves and liars. The Homeric hymn to Hermes invokes him as the one

"of many shifts, blandly cunning, a robber, a cattle driver, a bringer of dreams, a watcher by night, a thief at the gates, one who was soon to show forth wonderful deeds among the deathless gods."

Hermes bearing the infant Dionysus, by Praxiteles

 

Hermes bearing the infant Dionysus, by Praxiteles

 

As a translator, Hermes is the messenger from the gods to humans. An interpreter who bridges the boundaries with strangers is a hermeneus. Hermes gives us our word "hermeneutics" for the art of interpreting hidden meaning. In Greek a lucky find was a hermaion.

 

Hermes, as an inventor of fire, is a parallel of the Titan, Prometheus. In addition to the svrinx and the lyre, Hermes was believed to have invented many types of racing and the sport of boxing, and therefore was a patron of athletes. Modern mythographers have connected Hermes with the trickster gods of other cultures.