
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
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.