Abstract
This article presents the many-faceted transformations of the figure of Hermes in Ancient Greece, late-ancient Egypt, and the Muslim world. Hermes is a messenger, inventor of the kithara (the ancestor of the guitar), magician, and mystical master (in the Sufi tradition). This article delineates these multiple functions and suggests a unifying thread among them in the Great Work of transformation and the art of communication essential to that transformation.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 14-19 |
| Volume | 16 |
| No | 3 |
| Specialist publication | Peer-Reviewed "Folkroots" Section of Realms of Fantasy |
| State | Published - Jun 1 2010 |