Relating to or characteristic of hermai, or connected to the god Hermes and his sacred markers.
Formed from 'herma' or 'Hermes' plus the suffix '-ic,' meaning 'of or pertaining to'; this adjectival form developed in scholarly English to describe features or practices associated with hermai.
The hermaic tradition shows how the same god could be taken seriously as both a trickster (thieves prayed to Hermes) and a guardian—the boundary stones were meant to protect, but also to mark where rules began.
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