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📚 Hermes Resources ✨

So, I tend to not see more in depth or comprehensive resource suggestions floating around for Hermes in particular, and I figured I’d compile a list of things for convenience sake. While lengthy, this is by no means exhaustive, and I welcome and encourage other resource suggestions! 🙏

I've revamped my Hermes Resource Masterlist!

Last Updated on May 10th, 2026.

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ace-n-revelry

Hidden Couwenbergh by Volker Hermes

hierophantique

Hermes is a god of travelers living and dead, his monument of stones a boundary marker for the world on this plane and between it and the underworld. Kerenyi, in his masterful study, Hermes, Guide of Souls, emphasizes the god's role in traversing the boundary between life and death, between this world and the underworld of shades, Hades. Because of his association with boundaries and with the realm of shades, Hermes takes on the features of a liminal god, that is, one who inhabits interstices, a denizen of betwixt-and-between. He stands at the edge not only geographically and interpersonally but also metaphysically. He is essentially in and of the world of liminality.

-- Stein, Hermes and the Creation of Space

Kinda fell off of what I intended to do, but I'm re-grouping a bit.

#new handle btw #might not keep it but #wanted a change

wildharesandboundteeth

Veneration of Khthonic Hermes

Adored Lord Hermes, ever radiant are you, even in Death's and Necessity's dreadful wake. Two snakes, two hands, two paths. Balanced and intertwined, never one without the other.

Darling son of the rich-tressed shy goddess and the thunderous King of God's, under Nyx's shroud, your hands are soft like the pads of a predator. Companion of the Three-Formed Titaness, down to the depths you lead. Lively psychopomp of the dead, you guide them to Hades' wise Queen, the garlands mistress of death.

Choking the barking dogs and unmaking the restrictive boundaries of the troubled and fearful living. Please steal us away, generous theif! Deep into the night, you coax us into revelry with your madness inducing kin and their satyr followers. You weave your way through the ecstatic crowd, deceptions honeyed with a sly smile. And in the wake of your unbindings,your ever-scheming lover follows, tying down hearts and flesh once more, swaying hips adorned with her passion inspiring girdle. Many shifting rogue, the tricksters you secretly mentor cry out their worship to you. May they consecrate their ears and tongues to you and erect worthy shrines to soft-lidded Peitho upon their lips.

Or perhaps, wisened one, you will lend us your keen insight, soul illuminating lantern in hand. Under the cover of Astraeus, you lend a patient ear and perspicacious counsel, intermittently in the company of the goddess whose eyes shine with the depth and beauty of galaxies known and unknown. For through your endless travels, nothing is hidden from you, dissembling interpreter.

You free War from His confinement, yet hold no shame in relinquishing arms against the beloved Mother of the Twins. Nevertheless, slayer of Argos, your Harpe drips with blood for you are the delightful patron of mercenaries. Though the rod Caduceus heralds diplomacy and Death's gentler twin, your sharp words and cunning wit are what mortals fear and respect.

And whenever I am lost in the dark, I pray you be my guide, ready helper. Be my steady feet and firm resolve, even if Anake's all-encompassing frame shadows my sight. Or perhaps, be the unlawful friend who entices me into delighting in the joys of life.

khaire-traveler

I feel that Crocus, as a figure in mythology, is often overlooked by many Hermes worshippers. There isn't much about him to be found, information-wise, but the fact that his story exists means something, and I'd just like to call attention to that, especially with the coming of spring in the Northern hemisphere. I have many thoughts on this that I'd like to elaborate on a bit later. 🧡

academic-vampire

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dionysianivy

[...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.]