. The Open court. Hermes Psychopompos and THE Angel of Death. (Relief on a hollow marble column of Ephesus ). GoRGO AS Christians who revered Christ as a redeemer from death in the samesense as the Orphic priests believed in the efficacy of the OrphicMysteries; for pictures of Christ as Orpheus are quite common inthe catacombs. Maia (that is, the nourishing one, the mother goddess)Zeus begot Hermes, the herald of the gods, the protector of com-merce and trade, and the deity that conducted souls to Hades. 1 Between Hermes and Death stands the figure of a woman, perhaps Pers
. The Open court. Hermes Psychopompos and THE Angel of Death. (Relief on a hollow marble column of Ephesus ). GoRGO AS Christians who revered Christ as a redeemer from death in the samesense as the Orphic priests believed in the efficacy of the OrphicMysteries; for pictures of Christ as Orpheus are quite common inthe catacombs. Maia (that is, the nourishing one, the mother goddess)Zeus begot Hermes, the herald of the gods, the protector of com-merce and trade, and the deity that conducted souls to Hades. 1 Between Hermes and Death stands the figure of a woman, perhaps Persephone. See Wood, Ephesus, London, 1877, and for illustrations of the columna caeXdiia, Arch. Zig.,1865, pi. 65. B. D., p. 281, and Springer, HJb., I., p. 181. 2Gem from Kertch. After Comte-Rendu, i860, pi. 4, fig. 6. (Roscher, Lex., p. 1711.) See theillustrations on page 658 of the present Open Court, ON GREEK RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY. 647 Hermes is a god who gained in significance the more the be-lief in the Beyond grew in importance, for Hermes (even as earlyas Homeric times) was the leader of
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