Abstract
Symbol theology in Greece : the Homeric hymn to Hermes (I) : commentary on I. 1-181 Two interrelated questions constantly crop up throughout this commentary. Must we consider the Greek gods as powers existing only within the network of relations uniting them to the divine system as a whole ? It is absurd to imagine that the divinities whose presence was attested on the Aegean shore very early on, could in the Greece of city-states manifest themselves as powers and yet conceal a substantial being coming from the depths of time ? Do divine myths belong exclusively to the order of discourse ? It is not possible to imagine that a mythical story could intermingle unbeknown or known to its narrators, the expressible and the inexpressible, the representative power of words addressed to everyone and the revealing power of things given to be seen by all, a discourse on the divine and a symbol theology ?
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