slug: shrines/hermes
translates: shrines/hermes
lang: en
title: To Hermes
description: "Hail, Hermes Psychopompos, Guardian of travellers, Giver of man’s tongues!"
thumbnail: "/shrines/hermes/psychopompus.jpg"
thumbnailAlt: "A painting of Hermes ferrying the dead to the underworld."
pageCreated: "2021-07-08"
pageUpdated: "2023-03-04"
extends ../shrine.pug
mixin caduceus
.caduceus
.caduceus-outer
.caduceus-inner ☤
.caduceus-outer
block header
h1 In honour of Hermes
ul.epithets
li Hermes Agoræos
li Hermes Tricephalos
li Hermes Psychopompos
li Hermes Hermeneutes
ul.epithets
li Spirit of the market-place
li Guardian of travellers
li Shepherd to the next life
li Giver of man’s tongues
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#main-image.idol
div: img(src=qua("herma.gif") alt="A bust of Hermes on top of a large cuboidal stone, with a carving of a human penis in the middle.")
div: img.framed(src=qua("psychopompus.jpg") alt="A painting of Hermes ferrying the dead to the underworld.")
div: img(src=qua("herma.gif") alt="A bust of Hermes on top of a large cuboidal stone, with a carving of a human penis in the middle.")
+caduceus
img.framed(src=qua("market.gif") alt="A bustling market.")
img.framed(src=qua("tricephalus.gif") alt="An intersection of forest paths.")
+caduceus
img.framed.idol(src=qua("guide.gif") alt="A carving of Hermes guiding someone to the underworld.")
.splash And, when all elſe is ſaid and done — i will take Thy hand.
+caduceus
ul.splash
li: a(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bfseWNmlds") Sleepyhead
li: a(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiosqtFLBBA") Go Your Own Way
li: a(href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewRjZoRtu0Y") Paper Planes
h2.splash A hymn to
span.theonym Hermes
p#hymn
span.theonym Hermes
| , draw near, and to my pray'r incline, Angel of
span.theonym Zeus
| , and
span.theonym Maia
| 's Son divine;
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| Studious of conteſts, Ruler of mankind, with heart almighty, and a prudent mind.
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| Celeſtial Meſsenger, of various ſkill, Whoſe pow’rful arts could watchful Argos kill:
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| With winged feet, ’tis Thine through air to courſe, O Friend of man, and Prophet of diſcourſe:
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| Great Life-ſupporter, to rejoice is Thine, in arts gymnaſtic, and in fraud divine:
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| With pow’r endued all language to explain, of care the Looſ’ner, and the Source of gain.
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| Whoſe hand contains of blameleſs peace the rod, Corucian, bleſsed, profitable God;
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| Of various ſpeech, whose aid in works we find, and in neceſsities to mortals kind:
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| Dire weapon of the tongue, which men revere, be preſent,
span.theonym Hermes
| , and Thy ſuppliant hear;
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| Aſsiſt my works, conclude my life with peace, give graceful ſpeech, and memory’s increaſe.