ἔργῳ δ᾽ ἔργον ὄπαζε ταμὼν κρέα πίονα δημῷ: ὤπτα δ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ ὀβελοῖσι πεπαρμένα δουρατέοισι σάρκας ὁμοῦ καὶ νῶτα γεράσμια καὶ μέλαν αἷμα ἐργμένον ἐν χολάδεσσι: τὰ δ᾽ αὐτοῦ κεῖτ᾽ ἐπὶ χώρης: ῥινοὺς δ᾽ ἐξετάνυσσε καταστυφέλῳ ἐνὶ πέτρῃ, ὡς ἔτι νῦν τὰ μέτασσα πολυχρόνιοι πεφύασι, δηρὸν δὴ μετὰ ταῦτα καὶ ἄκριτον: αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα Ἑρμῆς χαρμόφρων εἰρύσατο πίονα ἔργα λείῳ ἐπὶ πλαταμῶνι καὶ ἔσχισε δώδεκα μοίρας κληροπαλεῖς: τέλεον δὲ γέρας προσέθηκεν ἑκάστῃ. In one respect his behaviour has a singular savage parallel. As we previously examined, knowledge of Metallurgy is suggested here. Therefore, he is referred to as some regional archon/king of an unknown era. What is confirmed here is that Apollo was a man who had been living in the distant past, being ‘contemporary with the Muses’. Hermes' epiphany … English: Take these, Son of Maia, and tend the wild roving, horned oxen and horses and patient mules. In the Iliad Homer informs us that there were two recognising factors of wealth: if someone owned a lot of gold or if someone owned a great number of oxen. From the following excerpt we may receive an indication of how rapidly massive social schanges took place in the Greek peninsula during the transitional era ‘from caves to houses’. Our source for the ancient Greek text: Hymn 4 to Hermes, Our source for the English translation: HOMERIC HYMN TO HERMES, Ancient Greek: Ἑρμῆν ὕμνει, Μοῦσα, Διὸς καὶ Μαιάδος υἱόν, Κυλλήνης μεδέοντα καὶ Ἀρκαδίης πολυμήλου, ἄγγελον ἀθανάτων ἐριούνιον, ὃν τέκε Μαῖα, νύμφη ἐυπλόκαμος, Διὸς ἐν φιλότητι μιγεῖσα, English: Muse, sing of Hermes, the son of Zeus and Maia, lord of Cyllene and Arcadia rich in flocks, the luck-bringing messenger of the immortals whom Maia bare, the rich-tressed nymph, when she was joined in love with Zeus. It is not at all a coincidence that Homer places him to honour Mnemosyne ( = Memory, the ability to memorize). These three are proclaimed as the desired effects of Music. But he was also tricksy as English: For then she bare a son, of many shifts, blandly cunning, a robber, a cattle driver, a bringer of dreams, a watcher by night, a thief at the gates, one who was soon to show forth wonderful deeds among the deathless gods. Sportive myths are treated sportively, as in the story of Then he wove sandals with wicker-work by the sand of the sea, wonderful things, unthought of, unimagined; for he mixed together tamarisk and myrtle-twigs, fastening together an armful of their fresh, young wood, and tied them, leaves and all securely under his feet as light sandals. For the transitional period ‘from caves to houses’ though, it appears that there are some strong analogies with modern archaeological findings from the Greek peninsula. He took the lyre upon his left arm and tried each string in turn with the key, so that it sounded awesomely at his touch. This could have two different interpretations. Ancient Greek: ἠῷος γεγονὼς μέσῳ ἤματι ἐγκιθάριζεν, ἑσπέριος βοῦς κλέψεν ἑκηβόλου Ἀπόλλωνος τετράδι τῇ προτέρῃ, τῇ μιν τέκε πότνια Μαῖα. Another interesting thing is that ‘the gods’ own cattle. he being the midnight thief whose maraudings account for the unexplained Then glorious Hermes longed for the sacrificial meat, for the sweet savour wearied him, god though he was; nevertheless his proud heart was not prevailed upon to devour the flesh, although he greatly desired. fable which robs Prometheus of the honour. Moreover, the fact that Terpander did invent the seven chords Hence, if we could collect statistically satisfying quantities of their bones, then maybe we could arrive in a position to make a proper estimate of the described era. ( Log Out /  ( Log Out /  He lords it over Kyllene and Arkadia, rich in flocks, courier of the immortals, messenger, quick-as-death, infant born to Maia, a nymph with beautiful hair. chiefly revels in a very familiar subject of savage humour (notably among He threw them both panting upon their backs on the ground, and rolled them on their sides, bending their necks over, and pierced their vital chord. THE HOMERIC HYMN TO HERMES. God) is the theme. At the Additionally, as we have presented here (Greek Mythology: What are its divisions and the reasons it should be studied) “The Mythological (A)eon was defined from the Cataclysm of Ogygos to the beginning of the Olympiads, which they also call Heroic, because during that (a)eon the Heroes lived, thought to be the descendants and successors of the gods. Every prefer the lively and charming version of Shelley to any other. Then, the text continues, ‘Hermes the cave man’ ‘ἰθύσας δ᾽ ἄντρου ἐξίκετο πίονα νηὸν’.

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