Wingded Shoe Meaning? 1616 Responses

Last post: 2 months, 1 week ago | Thread started: Sep 24, 08, 9:40 a.m.

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• 2cents

  Does anyone know the history and/or meaning behind this symbol?

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• madirish

  this was Apollo, no?

  • some greek god, that sounds right
    – 7point341/2

    hermes– capsize2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 08, 9:41 a.m. – Permalink

• madirish

  Helios, rather. Sorry.

  • Teleos?– Mimio

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 08, 9:43 a.m. – Permalink

• 7point34

  http://www.google.com/search?q=g…

  • Yep, Hermes– Mimio1/5

    i got hermes
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    So does Oprah
    ::Does a hick dance::– Mimio3/5

    it burns when i pleiade– 7point344/5

    ahahaha– Mimio5/5

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 08, 9:43 a.m. – Permalink

• pylon

  Mercury, innit?

  • Roman messenger god.– pylon

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 08, 9:44 a.m. – Permalink

• sashies

  MERCURY?

  

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• sashies

  OR HERMES? same dude

  • Same dude.– pylon

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 08, 9:45 a.m. – Permalink

• BaskerviIle

  Hermes
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• madirish

  i am so horrible at this. It is for sure Mercury/Hermes.

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 08, 9:46 a.m. – Permalink

• sashies

  the messenger god

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 08, 9:46 a.m. – Permalink

• 2cents

  Thanks 7.34.

  "The Greek god Hermes, who wore winged sandals was Herald to Zeus and Hades. Robert Graves in his seminal book Greek Myths describes Hermes duties as including "the making of treaties, the promotion of commerce, and the maintenance of free rights of way for travellers on any road in the world".

  The critical symbolism here is communication and what Graves describes as Hermes ability to travel "with the swiftness of the wind" by virtue of his golden winged sandals.

  There are parallels between Hermes and Mercury in the Roman pantheon and it seems that both of them either wore winged shoes or a winged hat or helm depending on who you read. Both were responsible for communication and commerce as well as having other functions. Further afield Hermes relates to Anubis in the Egyptian mythos although his duties differ somewhat."

  • also known for trickery and cunnning– capsize

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 08, 9:46 a.m. – Permalink

• capsize

  

  • ok ok I know– capsize

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 08, 9:47 a.m. – Permalink

• 5timuli

  It's the symbol for the Greek slavery god Nike.

  • Child slavery god, sorry.– 5timuli

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 08, 9:49 a.m. – Permalink

• capsize

  Hermes (Greek: Ερμής: 'pile of marker stones'), in Greek mythology, is the god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of orators, literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures and invention and commerce in general, of the cunning of thieves, and the messenger from the gods to humans. A lucky find was a hermaion. An interpreter who bridges the boundaries with strangers is a hermeneus. Hermes gives us our word "hermeneutics" for the art of interpreting hidden meaning.

  • http://www.widdershi…– capsize1/2

    I dunno– capsize2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 08, 9:54 a.m. – Permalink

• 5timuli

  And it's spelled "Wingededed".

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 08, 9:59 a.m. – Permalink

• fooler2

  good year?

  

  

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• horton

  i think Hermes was humping Nike for a couple centuries... or so i was told.

  

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  Dog-earSep 24, 08, 11:07 a.m. – Permalink