Hermes with Ram Wiccan For without you mortals hold

For without you mortals hold no banquet

Irish goddess

because she is the guardian of the innermost things

inspiration

Her kinship with animal totems shows she is a driving force for fertility in the natural world and able to assume animal form herself

Hermes with Ram Wiccan For without you mortals holdThrice Great Hermes! Stones called hermes protected all Greco Roman crossroads. The sign of the cross originally invoked the four sacred directions of Hermes. He was considered the Master Philosopher in Arab, Greek and medieval cultures. He is shown wearing an Etruscan peasant hat, carrying a ram, holding a caduceus and wearing winged sandals. His wise face implies hermetic knowledge. [Boston Museum, c. 400 BCE.] 8" gypsumstone statue, walnut shell