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With regard to this symbolic shape, it may be significant that Hermes is associated with the tortoise, out of whose shell he is said to have made the first lyre.[1] The tortoise shell resembles the herm in having a square bottom and round top. It played an important role in Chinese divination. The text of the I Ching described heaven as being round and the earth square, and “a later edition of the Li-Chi described the Ming T’ang (palace) as being round above and square below… to signify the roundness of Heaven and the Squareness of Earth” (Raglan[2] 1964: p. 155. …).

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  1. ↑ As described in the Athenian “Homeric Hymn to Hermes,” dating from 520–511 BC according to Norman O. Brown (Hermes the Thief, 1990 [1947]: pp. 112, 66, 77).
  2. ↑ Lord Raglan, The Temple and the House (London: 1964), p. 155.