C C 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hecate
4 Oct 2016
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Cc 303, dr. james patterson, week 5, lecture #13, 23 september 2016. God of thieves/robbers, rocks/stones, messengers, travelers, merchants, boundaries, oratory. Cairns (piles of stones) used to mark pathways to towns god of rocks/stones. Highway thieves would hide behind tall cairns to rob travelers god of thieves/robbers. Messengers often the only ones traveling between towns because nature is dangerous god of messengers and also travelers. Messengers entering towns god of entering spaces/crossing boundaries. Herms (stones with depictions of hermes) used to mark boundaries between cities, around holy acropolis", and outside homes. Oratory the main method of delivering messages god of oratory. Hermes has the ability to cross from the sky to earth and to the underworld to an extent. The only immortal god who is able to do so. But he can"t cross into death; he delivers souls to tartarus but can only go as far as charon.
