Hermes, entrusted by the ancient Greek gods to take messages to man, is said to have traveled only by night. He, the envoy, took difficult paths and bends.

Wisdom often comes in metaphor: Hermes is one. A message, particularly one from the far distant, is never transparent. Maybe this is why mysterious figures of mythology, with their dark and convoluted backgrounds, appear in various manifestations. Only one of Hermes's identities is relatively st