Catching Up: Tuesday 5.31.22

A map of the week . . .

First, a farewell to the month named after Maia, mother of Hermes—the Greek trickster/messenger god who was fathered by Zeus, and later renamed Mercury by the Romans. Eventually, Hermes acquired attributes of the Egyptian god Thoth and became “Hermes Trismegistus,” putative author of many magical treatises.

So May has some non-obvious connections with t…