Hi, everybody. Sam here. Happy Thursday. And this is episode 122 of the Viktipep Vokap podcast.

And I don't have a quote for you today. But I did do some research on the word hermetic,

because we had mentioned the word mercurial. That was one of our episode 120 words.

And we were saying it was curious that we have the God Mercury and the God Hermes from Greek mythology.

And the Roman God Mercury and the Greek God Hermes are the same God.

And we were saying it was a little strange that Mercury went on to inspire this new word mercurial.

And Hermes came to this word hermetic. And both these words are very different.

So why did Hermes go on to become this word or to inspire this word hermetic?

So I did the research. And it is kind of a weird story, I suppose you could say.

And I would advise you to read up on some of this too, because it's quite interesting.

I'm going to try and summarize it now. And I would say there's a caveat here.

There's quite a complex etymology here. And I'm going to try and summarize it in a short and brief way,

but there's a lot more to it. So let's go.

So there obviously is a connection between the word hermetic and the God Hermes.

But it turns out that there was another legendary character involved.

And this is this guy Hermes Trismagistus, which translates it means Hermes the Thrice Greatest.

Now Hermes Trismagistus is a legendary character who is believed to be a combination or a fusion of the Greek God Hermes

and the Egyptian God Thoth. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right.

But both these gods, both Hermes and Thoth, were associated with writing, magic, and alchemy.

And alchemy really is the key thing here. So Hermes Trismagistus, one of the things he is supposed to have done,

is write this series of sacred texts called The Hermeticer.

Now these texts discuss astrology, alchemy, and some other spiritual type topics.

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