Hermes, Enoch and Pan

June 20th, 2024

The first one is a title and not a name — and he is not Greek, but comes from Egypt and through the way of the ancient Levant before settling in Ionia and I wish that was taught in schools or mythology and comparative religion books. The second one walks with God and is mostly forgotten with just a mention in the canon of the Bible — hidden and made to be forgotten by religious authorities on purpose, I believe. The third one supposedly died at the beginning of the Christian era on some god-forsaken island in the Egean Sea, but in reality he simply (and wrongly) morphed into a caricature of a natural folk spirit under the disguise of the devil.

There is a connection between those three. That connection might be close to conspiracy theories, but it is a connection anyway. And can it be a conspiracy theory when we talk about things that can't be proven this or that way, and base all we know on fragments of scraps of secrets and conjure our inadequate projections of wisdom toward deep secrets? And there are secrets, and vast forgotten (or hidden — purposely or not) knowledge and wisdom of which we know next to nothing. Secrets of the omphalos in the Delphi mysteries and oracles. Secrets of the pillars of Enoch (and his knowledge preserved incompletely in the Book of Enoch, and 2 Enoch and 3 Enoch, notwithstanding all the efforts of the Church authorities to wipe his name from our knowledge). Secrets of understanding nature and being a conscious part of it within the Orphic mysteries. Those secrets.

There is a connection between those three (and many more others like them, different only in names preserved throughout the ages). And the more I read about this subject the more disappointed I become — there are great and in-depth studies about all those particular subjects, but it seems like only a tenuous connection is made when the obvious is right there. I think I might have to change it myself.