Res: [tied] Hermes again

It's not an usual view, but I insist in considering Hermes as somehow linked to Hittite Moon-God Jarmash/Irmash. Forms Herme:s, Hermeas and E-ma-a point to a Common Greek *Hermahas, maybe from *Yermasas. Hermes would be a complex combination of Pre-Greek and IE traits: this Anatolian Moon-God, the IE Shepherd-God (cf. Pusan and Pan, maybe originally a Moon-God), the trickster-messenger IE Fire-God (cf. Loki, Agni, Prometheus), a Pre-IE fertility god (cf. Eros, Dionysos, the Beast-Man in Gimbutas' Old European Mythology - if it is valid), a Pre-IE dog-killer, golden-sworded Argeiphontes. 

 

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