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

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


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



