Meaning of HERMES
| Pronunciation: | | 'hurmeez
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| | Definition: | | [n] (Greek mythology) messenger and herald of the gods; god of commerce and cunning and invention and theft; identified with Roman Mercury |
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| | Definition: | |  Hermes
This is the work on the great god Hermes by Karl Kerinyi, one of the greatest classicists of the twentieth century. Hermes is a beautiful and authoritative study of the god whom the Greeks revered and Guide of Souls. The book includes chapters on Hermes and Night, Hermes and Eros, Hermes and the goddesses. Kerinyi illuminates the complex role of Hermes in classical mythology, while also providing an archetypal background for the guiding of souls in psychotherapy. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Her"mes\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.]
1. (Myth.) See {Mercury}.
Note: Hermes Trismegistus [Gr. 'Ermh^s trisme`gistos, lit.,
Hermes thrice greatest] was a late name of Hermes,
especially as identified with the Egyptian god Thoth.
He was the fabled inventor of astrology and alchemy.
2. (Arch[ae]ology) Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to
Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in
some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a
quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body
belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other
parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures,
though often representing Hermes, were used for other
divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of
human beings. Called also {herma}. See {Terminal statue},
under {Terminal}.
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| | Definition: | | An experimental, very high level, integrated language and system from the IBM Watson Research Centre, produced in June 1990. It is designed for implementation of large systems and distributed applications, as well as for general-purpose programming. It is an imperative, strongly typed and process-oriented successor to NIL. Hermes hides distribution and heterogeneity from the programmer. The programmer sees a single abstract machine containing processes that communicate using calls or sends. The compiler, not the programmer, deals with the complexity of data structure layout, local and remote communication, and interaction with the operating system. As a result, Hermes programs are portable and easy to write. Because the programming paradigm is simple and high level, there are many opportunities for optimisation which are not present in languages which give the programmer more direct control over the machine. Hermes features threads, relational tablesHermes is, typestate checking, capability-based access and dynamic configuration. Version 0.8alpha patchlevel 01 runs on RS/6000, Sun-4, NeXT, IBM-RT/BSD4.3 and includes a bytecode compiler, a bytecode->C compiler and run-time support. 0.7alpha for Unix. E-mail: <[email protected]>, Andy Lowry <[email protected]>. Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.lang.hermes. ["Hermes: A Language for Distributed Computing". Strom, Bacon, Goldberg, Lowry, Yellin, Yemini. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 1991. ISBN: O-13-389537-8]. |
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| | Definition: | | Mercury, a Roman Christian (Rom. 16:14). |
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| | Related Terms: | | Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, carrier, Ceres, commercialism, commissionaire, Cora, courier, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, diplomatic courier, Dis, emissary, Eros, estafette, express, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, go-between, Great Mother, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, industrialism, Iris, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Magna Mater, Mars, mercantilism, Mercury, message-bearer, messenger, Minerva, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, nuncio, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Paul Revere, Persephassa, Persephone, Pheidippides, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, post, postboy, postrider, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, runner, Saturn, Tellus, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus |
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