Hermès

Olympian god in Greek religion and mythology; the emissary and messenger of the gods; the god of trade, heraldry, merchants, commerce, roads, thieves, trickery, sports, travelers, and athletes; the son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maia

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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly discusses Hermes through his traditional attributes: the winged messenger of the gods and the god of merchants, and therefore of thieves, whom he identifies with the Latin Mercury1. This double patronage comes up in several sessions, including one on Nerval's Angélique2. Most often, he compares him to Loge, Wagner's god of fire, whom he presents as his Germanic equivalent: like Hermes, Loge is the intelligent, cunning one3 4. In 2021, this comparison comes up several times in the sessions on the sciences of history and in the Musicosophie series, where a postman interrupting the session leads him to speak of the messenger5. Elsewhere, he draws a parallel between the wings on Hermes's helmet and the birds of African masks6. Finally, he sees Hermes as the one who makes the connection, which lets him show how interpretation becomes hermeneutics7.

Summary produced automatically from 9 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

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Hermes (; Ancient Greek: Ἑρμῆς) is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology considered the herald of the gods. He is also widely considered the protector of human heralds, travelers, thieves, merchants, and orators. He is able to move quickly and freely between the worlds of the mortal and the divine aided by his winged sandals. Hermes plays the role of the psychopomp or "soul guide"—a conductor of souls into the afterlife. […]

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