kerykeion (English spelling)

Japanese: kērykeion(英語表記)kerykeion
kerykeion (English spelling)

...Hermes Trismegistus, known as the founder of alchemy, is a deity formed by the syncretization of Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth. In artworks, apart from Hermai, he was originally depicted as a bearded, clothed man, sometimes as a shepherd with a sheep on his shoulders, but since the 5th century BC, he has often been depicted as a naked, handsome young man wearing a wide-brimmed hat with wings (petasos), holding a staff called a kērykeion (caduceus) in his hand, and wearing winged sandals on his feet. One famous work is the statue of Hermes holding the infant Dionysus (around 340 BC) by Praxiteles, excavated from Olympia. ...

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Japanese:

…なお,錬金術の始祖などとして知られるヘルメス・トリスメギストスは,ヘルメスとエジプトのトートが習合して成立した神格である。 美術作品では,ヘルマイを別にすれば,古くは髯(ひげ)をはやし,衣をまとった男,ときには羊を肩に背負った牧人で表現されたが,前5世紀以降は,翼のついた鍔の広い帽子ペタソスpetasosをかぶり,手にはケリュケイオンkērykeion(カドゥケウス)と呼ばれる杖を持ち,足にも有翼のサンダルをはいた裸身の美青年で表現されることが多い。有名な作品に,オリュンピアから出土したプラクシテレス作の幼いディオニュソスを抱くヘルメス像(前340ころ)がある。…

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