in Greek mythology, the god who is the messenger (=someone who takes messages) of the gods. He is usually shown in pictures with wings on his shoes and on his helmet. In Roman mythology his name is Mercury. Greek god, son of Zeus and Maia. The earliest center of his cult was probably Arcadia, where he was worshiped as a god of fertility. He was also associated with the protection of cattle and sheep. In Homer's Odyssey he appears as the messenger of the gods and the conductor of the dead to Hades. As a messenger he also became the god of roads and doorways and the protector of travelers. He was also the god of dreams. His Roman counterpart was Mercury
(2 syl ) The Greek Mercury; either the god or the metal "So when we see the liquid metal fall Which chemists by the name of Hermes call " Hoole: Ariosto, book viii Milton (Paradise Lost, iii 603) calls quicksilver "Volatil Hermes "
The first satellite to experiment with small satellite dishes for television This use of small dishes made live news reports from remote locations possible The Canadian Hermes satellite was launched on January 17, 1976
(Greek mythology) messenger and herald of the gods; god of commerce and cunning and invention and theft; identified with Roman Mercury
Central message store for electronic mail (a CS facility) All students are issued with Hermes accounts on entry to the University so that every undergraduate, and every postgraduate from the 1997 entry onwards, has an e-mail address In addition, many University staff have accounts on Hermes
The brand name of BTB Mailflight's international mailing service using a wide variety of postal administrations and methods of despatch
Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it
These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings
originally a wind god, a forerunner to Mercurius in his aerial aspect God of revelation and ultimately derived from the Egyptian Thoth Hermetic philosophy is based on the Corpus Hermeticum, a collection of Neoplatonic, mystical, and Gnostic writings dating back to the 3rd and 4th centuries
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/ˈhərmēz/ /ˈhɜrmiːz/
Этимология
[ 'h&r-(")mEz ] (noun.) From the Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς, itself of unknown meaning and origin.