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The American company Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company has a logo of the winged sandals of Mercury, Hermes’ Roman form. [20] The Brazilian football (soccer) team Paysandu Sport Club have a talarium in the logo. The Pegasus Boots from The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening are based on the talaria.
The identification with Hermes is based on an identification of the original bronze model as a sculpture of Hermes in the gymnasium and thermae of Zeuxippos in Constantinople, which was described in detail by Christodoros of Koptos in his ekphrasis of the gymnasium as it still remained in Late Antiquity: There was Hermes, of the golden wand.
At the time, the equity sale generated great excitement. The 425,000 shares floated at FFr 300 (US$55 at the time) were oversubscribed by 34 times. [ 5 ] Dumas told Forbes magazine that the equity sale would help lessen family tensions by allowing some members to liquidate their holdings without "squabbling over share valuations among themselves."
In folklore, crossroads may represent a location "between the worlds" and, as such, a site where supernatural spirits can be contacted and paranormal events can take place. . Symbolically, it can mean a locality where two realms touch and therefore represents liminality, a place literally "neither here nor there", "betwixt and betwee
Tree of the knowledge of good and evil, one of two trees in the story of the Garden of Eden, along with the tree of life. ( Christian mythology / Jewish mythology ) Golden Bough , before entering Hades , Deiphobe tells Aeneas he must obtain the bough of gold which grows nearby in the woods around her cave, and must be given as a gift to ...
However, the seeds have been contaminated by a biological weapons repository neighboring the vault, causing pine trees to grow and spread at a rapid rate until they cover the entire Earth. Though the trees seem beneficial at first, returning the planet to a lush, wildlife-filled state, their uncontrolled growth produces dangerously high levels ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 January 2025. Ancient Greek deity and herald of the gods For other uses, see Hermes (disambiguation). Hermes God of boundaries, roads, travelers, merchants, thieves, athletes, shepherds, commerce, speed, cunning, language, oratory, wit, and messages Member of the Twelve Olympians Hermes Ingenui ...
Daniel Janzen suggested that gomphotheres (extinct elephant-like animals) may have previously been responsible for the dispersal of C. alata seeds. [2] With their extinction, C. alata became threatened with the possibility of habitat loss and suffered an extremely limited ability to migrate, but the introduction of a new vector, in the form of ...