
Greek Myths – Hermes
Kindness is often mistaken for softness and let me tell you, friends….that is a mistake you don’t want to make.
Kind people are not born that way, they do not stumble into it, kind people are forged in fire and darkness and imploding stars…they have steel cores. Throw a punch and you’re going to break your hand.
Kind people are kind because they know firsthand that life isn’t.
“The helper seeks to help because he knows what it is to be helpless”
Hermes/Ἑρμής epithets
- Argeiphontês – Slayer of Argos
- Athanatos Diaktoros – Immortal Guide
- Dôtor Eaôn – Giver of Good Things
- Epimêlios –
Keeper of the Flocks
- Hermes Agoraios – Hermes Of the Market-Place
- Hermes Dolios – Of Crafts, Of Wiles
- Hermes Enagônios – Of the Games
- Hermes Kriophoros – Hermes Ram-Bearer
- Hermêneutês – Interpretor, Translator

- Pitcher (oinochoe) with Hermes, Argos and Io
- Greek, South Italian; Early Classical Period, ca. 445–430 BC
- Attributed to the Pisticci Painter
- Italy, Lucania (Place of Manufacture)
- Ceramic, Red Figure
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
What do I do when I have a whole month of insomnia, and medicine isn’t helping?
THIS.
OP ARE YOU FUCKING OK
I just wanna say I’m thankful for a lot, I’ve been blessed with certain things in my life, especially with housing I recently realized– very affordable rents or even free housing
Thank You hermes, thank you gods
some people today complain that having the internet at our fingertips has spoiled millennials but like, i’m so glad i can look shit up whenever i want to. like can you imagine what it’d be like living in ancient greece and having to rely on herodotus when he says shit like “lions can only give birth once bc their cubs claw their way out of the womb”? i’d have to be like “o damn, guess that’s true” before going back to farming and dying of malaria bc i just thought my neighbor was cursing me again and didn’t go see a doctor
Most of Hermes’ epithets roughly mean “joyous one” or “bringer of joy”.
Then there’s Eriboas (that isnt the spelling, that’s more of a pronunciation and thought it would be easier to read). It means “loud”
Loud is absolutely correct