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Today’s Mount Kyllini.
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Hermes’ natty headgear is known as the petasus. His staff, the kerykeion – or
caduceus to the Romans – often appears as a worldwide symbol of medicine and
ambulances, either as an alternative to or a confusion with the staff of ASCLEPIUS (of
whom, more later).
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Medieval and Renaissance alchemists called him Hermes Trismegistus (Hermes
the Thrice Majestic). Since he is said to have been able magically to seal glass tubes,
chests and boxes, a seventeenth-century invention called the Magdeburg Hemispheres
(which employed the power of atmospheric pressure and a vacuum to create an
incredibly strong seal) was described as ‘hermetically sealed’, a phrase still much in use
today.
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This is its modern name – meaning literally ‘large kettles’ and to this day a
rewarding sight for mountaineers who dare scale the heights of Olympus.
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It was either the action of the Hecatonchires or of glacial moraines. No one can
say for absolute certain. Megala kazania literally means ‘large kettles’, and to this day
is a rewarding sight for mountaineers who dare to scale the heights of Olympus.
PROMETHEUS
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The Greek for ‘between rivers’ is Mesopotamia, which is how that area was
always known to the Greeks.
fn2
See Appendix
here
.
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That is one theory as to the origin of the word anthropos, which does strictly mean
‘man’. It is unfortunate that many words for our species seem to refer only to the male.
‘Human’, for example, is cognate with homo, the Latin for ‘man’. Thus ‘humanity’
rudely leaves out half the species. ‘Folk’ and ‘people’ aren’t so specific. It is worth
bearing in mind, however, that ‘man’ is actually connected to mens (mind) and manus
(hand), and was in fact gender neutral until perhaps a thousand years ago.
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