Sublime

Hermes means “he of the stone heap.” In Greece, mounds of stones served as landmarks and property boundaries. Somewhat paradoxically, Hermes is also a boundary-crosser. The themes of boundaries and boundary-crossing arise again and again in interpretations of Hermes, and tricksters generally.

Hermes facilitates transitions, as between order (Apollo) and orgiastic excess (Dionysus).

The Greeks recognized that boundaries referred to more than just the physical and geographic kind. Bolen reports that “Hermes is firmly cast in the role of messenger between realms”5 explaining: “As the traveler between levels, Hermes seeks to understand, integrate, and communicate between the conscious mental world of mind and intellect (Olympus),

the Egyptians deified Hermes, and made him one of their gods, under the name of Thoth.

"Trismegistus," which means "the thrice-great"; "the great-great"; "the greatest-great";