Hermes Guide of SoulsKarl Kerényi presents here a beautiful, authoritative study of the great god Hermes whom the Greeks revered as Guides of Souls. Chapters on Hermes and Night, Hermes and Eros, and Hermes and the goddesses illuminate the complex role of Hermes in classical mythology, while also providing an archetypal background for the guiding of souls in psychotherapy. A vital contribution both to the study of the classics and the therapy of the soul. |
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... that the childhood of the Gods belongs not to Olympian myth but to a far more ancient mythology.1 In the pre- 19Cf . my treatment of the Hymn to Hermes in Jung - Kerényi , op . cit . , 51ff . Hymn , an Olympian God grows out of the primal.
... that the childhood of the Gods belongs not to Olympian myth but to a far more ancient mythology.1 In the pre- 19Cf . my treatment of the Hymn to Hermes in Jung - Kerényi , op . cit . , 51ff . Hymn , an Olympian God grows out of the primal.
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... primal child mythologem antedates the Olympian order , yet is easily spliced into that order . The other association is to the Olympians Hermes belongs to them as their messenger . For this role he receives the Homeric epithet eriounios ...
... primal child mythologem antedates the Olympian order , yet is easily spliced into that order . The other association is to the Olympians Hermes belongs to them as their messenger . For this role he receives the Homeric epithet eriounios ...
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... primal condition re- stored in marriage , the one who precedes even the genesis of the first Herm and the generation of souls . It is not without good reason that a widow is found imploring the hermaphro- dite in a small Attic temple ...
... primal condition re- stored in marriage , the one who precedes even the genesis of the first Herm and the generation of souls . It is not without good reason that a widow is found imploring the hermaphro- dite in a small Attic temple ...
Contents
Preface to the 1995 Edition | 7 |
A Prefatory Note | 23 |
The Hermes Idea | 29 |
Copyright | |
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