It is Hermes who bridges the gap between the metalinguistic and the sublinguistic in the form of the message, language itself, the medium; he is the trickster who leads in misleading, the tremendum that echoes through the broken word. Hermes is therefore political, or rather ambassadorial-patron of intelligence and cryptography as well as an alchemy that seeks only the embodiment of the realities. Hermes is between text and image, master of the hieroglyphs that are simultaneously both – Hermes is their significance, their translatability. As one who goes “up and down” between spirits and humans, Hermes is the shamanic consciousness, the medium of direct experience, and the interface between these other forms and the political. “Hermetic” can also mean “unseen”. – Hakim Bey – The Obelisk
“Renowned for her skillful use of witchcraft and magic, Isis was particularly remembered by the Ancient Egyptians as ‘strong of tongues’, that is being in command of words of power ‘which she knew with correct pronunciation, and halted not in her speech, and was perfect both in giving the command and in saying the word’ [Sir E. A. Wallis budge, Egyptian Magic]. In short she was believed, by means of her voice alone, to be capable of bending reality and overriding the laws of physics.” – Graham Hancock – Fingerprints of the Gods
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