Hermes Trismegistus

Hermes Trismegistus (Greek for "Hermes the thrice-greatest", Greek: Ερμης ο Τρισμεγιστος) or Mercurius ter Maximus in Latin, is the syncretism of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth. In Hellenistic Egypt, the god Hermes was given as epithet the Greek name of Thoth. He has also been identified with Enoch. Other similar syncretized gods include Serapis and Hermanubis.

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Greek - Syncretism - Greek - Hermes - Egypt - Thoth - Hellenistic - Epithet - Enoch - Serapis - Hermanubis

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Hermes Trismegistus might also be explained in Euhemerist fashion as a man who was the son of the god, and in the Kabbalistic tradition that was inherited by the Renaissance, it could be imagined that such a personage had been contemporary with Moses, communicating to a line of adepts a parallel wisdom. (Occultist etymology has connected the two, making of Moses a truncated name and positing a full name, Thothmoses. This is presented in the royal hostage thesis below.) A historian, however, would leave such speculation to the history of alchemy and the 19th-century history of occultism.

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Euhemerist - Kabbalistic tradition - Renaissance - Moses - Alchemy - Occultism

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