Editing Hermes (section)

===Dolios ("tricky")===
Source:<ref>[[Polly Young-Eisendrath|P Young-Eisendrath]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=5dZUM7ogtQYC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA266 The Cambridge Companion to Jung] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429235016/https://books.google.com/books?id=5dZUM7ogtQYC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA266 |date=29 April 2023 }}, Cambridge University Press, 2008, {{ISBN|0-521-68500-1}}.</ref>

No cult to Hermes Dolios existed in [[Attica]], and so "this form of Hermes seems to have existed in speech only, but he was surely still a real power"<ref>I Polinskaya, citing Robert Parker (2003): I Polinskaya, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8FqNAgAAQBAJ&dq=Hermes+dolios&pg=PA103 ''A Local History of Greek Polytheism: Gods, People and the Land of Aigina, 800–400 BCE'' (p. 103)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429233509/https://books.google.com/books?id=8FqNAgAAQBAJ&dq=Hermes+dolios&pg=PA103 |date=29 April 2023 }}, BRILL, 2013, {{ISBN|90-04-26208-3}}.</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/anuniversalhist05histgoog/page/n43 <!-- pg=34 quote=Attica history. --> An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time – Volume 5 (p. 34)], 1779.</ref>

Hermes Dolio is ambiguous.<ref>L Kahn-Lyotard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ANC8Cwuk46sC&dq=Hermes+dolios&pg=PA185 Greek and Egyptian Mythologies] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412054901/https://books.google.com/books?id=ANC8Cwuk46sC&dq=Hermes%20dolios&pg=PA185 |date=12 April 2023 }} (edited by Y Bonnefoy), University of Chicago Press, 1992, {{ISBN|0-226-06454-9}}.</ref> According to prominent [[folklorist]] [[Yeleazar Meletinsky]], Hermes is a deified [[trickster]]<ref name="Meletinskii93p131">Meletinsky, ''Introduzione'' (1993), p. 131.</ref> and master of thieves ("a plunderer, a cattle-raider, a night-watching" in the ''Homeric Hymn to Hermes'')<ref>N. O. Brown, ''Hermes the Thief: The Evolution of a Myth''</ref> and deception ([[Euripides]])<ref>NW Slater, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WoEPlVY9vYEC&dq=Hermes+Dolios&pg=PA179 Spectator Politics: Metatheatre and Performance in Aristophanes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429233510/https://books.google.com/books?id=WoEPlVY9vYEC&dq=Hermes%20Dolios&pg=PA179 |date=29 April 2023 }}, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002, {{ISBN|0-8122-3652-1}}.</ref> and (possibly evil) tricks and trickeries,<ref name="ReferenceB">[[Aristophanes]]{{clarify|date=April 2016}}</ref><ref>"[T]he thief praying...": [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZh1OgWCIWgC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA221 W Kingdon Clifford, L Stephen, F Pollock] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412055833/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZh1OgWCIWgC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA221 |date=12 April 2023 }}</ref><ref>William Stearns Davis – ''A Victor of Salamis: A Tale of the Days of Xerxes, Leonidas, and Themistocles'', Wildside Press LLC, 2007, {{ISBN|1-4344-8334-7}}.</ref><ref>A Brown, [https://books.google.com/books?id=JQQOAAAAQAAJ&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA101 A New Companion to Greek Tragedy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430001029/https://books.google.com/books?id=JQQOAAAAQAAJ&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA101 |date=30 April 2023 }}, Taylor & Francis, 1983, {{ISBN|0-389-20396-3}}.</ref> crafty (from ''lit''. god of craft),<ref>F Santi Russell, [https://books.google.com/books?id=xIh_Vsbc4IYC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA183 Information Gathering in Classical Greece] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412055835/https://books.google.com/books?id=xIh_Vsbc4IYC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA183 |date=12 April 2023 }}, University of Michigan Press, 1999.</ref> the cheat,<ref>JJ Ignaz von Döllinger, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2MsZAAAAMAAJ&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA191 The Gentile and the Jew in the courts of the Temple of Christ: an introduction to the history of Christianity] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412054904/https://books.google.com/books?id=2MsZAAAAMAAJ&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA191 |date=12 April 2023 }}, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1862.</ref> the god of stealth.<ref>EL Wheeler, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WsF8FF40qKUC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA32 ''Stratagem and the Vocabulary of Military Trickery''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429235018/https://books.google.com/books?id=WsF8FF40qKUC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA32 |date=29 April 2023 }}, BRILL, 1988, {{ISBN|90-04-08831-8}}.</ref> He is also known as the friendliest to man, cunning,<ref>R Parker, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ff51JeXhHXUC&dq=Hermes+Dolios&pg=PA126 Polytheism and Society at Athens] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430001028/https://books.google.com/books?id=ff51JeXhHXUC&dq=Hermes+Dolios&pg=PA126 |date=30 April 2023 }}, Oxford University Press, 2007, {{ISBN|0-19-921611-8}}.</ref> treacherous,<ref>[[Athenaeus]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=WkViAAAAMAAJ&q=Hermes+Dolios ''The learned banqueters''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412055832/https://books.google.com/books?id=WkViAAAAMAAJ&q=Hermes+Dolios |date=12 April 2023 }}, Harvard University Press, 2008.</ref> and a schemer.<ref>I Ember, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QYKfAAAAMAAJ&q=Hermes+Dolios ''Music in painting: music as symbol in Renaissance and baroque painting''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430001026/https://books.google.com/books?id=QYKfAAAAMAAJ&q=Hermes%20Dolios |date=30 April 2023 }}, Corvina, 1984.</ref>

Hermes Dolios was worshipped at [[Pellene]]<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+7.27.1 7.27.1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616052518/https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.%207.27.1 |date=16 June 2022 }}</ref><ref>Plutarch (trans. William Reginald Halliday), ''The Greek questions of Plutarch''.</ref> and invoked through Odysseus.<ref>S Montiglio, [https://books.google.com/books?id=AuU7DDnpd4EC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA278 ''Silence in the Land of Logos''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412054909/https://books.google.com/books?id=AuU7DDnpd4EC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA278 |date=12 April 2023 }}, Princeton University Press, 2010, {{ISBN|0-691-14658-6}}.</ref>

{{blockquote|(As the ways of gain are not always the ways of honesty and straightforwardness, Hermes obtains a bad character and an in-moral (amoral [ed.]) cult as Dolios)<ref>J Pòrtulas, C Miralles, Archilochus and the Iambic Poetry (page 24)</ref>{{Verify source|date=August 2024|reason=cite linked to google search results, unclear if anyone read original source}} }}

Hermes is ''amoral''<ref>{{cite book|author=John H. Riker|title=Human Excellence and an Ecological Conception of the Psyche|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MzAl_Pn6s_UC&pg=PA187|year=1991|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-1736-3|page=187}}</ref> like a baby.<ref>{{cite book|author=Andrew Samuels|title=Jung and the Post-Jungians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SI0OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA247|year=1986|publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul|isbn=978-0-7102-0864-4|page=247}}</ref> Zeus sent Hermes as a teacher to humanity to teach them knowledge of and value of justice and to improve inter-personal relationships ("[[Human bonding|bonding between mortals]]").<ref>{{cite book|author=Ben-Ami Scharfstein|title=Amoral Politics: The Persistent Truth of Machiavellism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ibkxwtmP7_UC&pg=PA102|year=1995|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-2279-3|page=102}}</ref>

Considered to have a mastery of rhetorical persuasion and ''special pleading'', the god typically has nocturnal ''[[Wikt:modus operandi|modus operandi]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Homerus|title=Three Homeric Hymns: To Apollo, Hermes, and Aphrodite|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UYvVJ3zB7W8C|year=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-45158-1}}</ref> Hermes knows the boundaries and crosses the borders of them to confuse their definition.<ref>L Hyde, [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781847672254 <!-- quote=Hermes trickster. --> Trickster Makes this World: Mischief, Myth and Art], Canongate Books, 2008.</ref>