"The Bird of Hermes isn't anything, it's a metaphor Alucard uses to describe himself. Hermes, the messenger god in Greek mythology, represents Alucard himself, a servant to the Hellsing family. The second part, "eating my wings to make me tame," represents how Alucard must restrain himself due to being the Hellsings' servant.
^ This is a very vague answer. The first part is correct, Hermes is the messenger god in Greek mythology. However, the second part is wrong. The whole quote, "The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame" is stating that one must accept self imposed limitations for the sake of stability."
First and foremost, most of that other answer is completely wrong. The bird of Hermes is something. And, it didn't come from Hellsing. It came from an ancient text called the Ripley scroll.
It's about how we need to set limitations for ourselves because we walk a line between inspiration and insanity. Hermes needed to "eat [his] wings" because they would grow too long for proper flight otherwise.
There's another bit to the whole metaphor about setting too many limits, but I won't get into it now.
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"The Bird of Hermes isn't anything, it's a metaphor Alucard uses to describe himself. Hermes, the messenger god in Greek mythology, represents Alucard himself, a servant to the Hellsing family. The second part, "eating my wings to make me tame," represents how Alucard must restrain himself due to being the Hellsings' servant.
^ This is a very vague answer. The first part is correct, Hermes is the messenger god in Greek mythology. However, the second part is wrong. The whole quote, "The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame" is stating that one must accept self imposed limitations for the sake of stability."
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First and foremost, most of that other answer is completely wrong. The bird of Hermes is something. And, it didn't come from Hellsing. It came from an ancient text called the Ripley scroll.
It's about how we need to set limitations for ourselves because we walk a line between inspiration and insanity. Hermes needed to "eat [his] wings" because they would grow too long for proper flight otherwise.
There's another bit to the whole metaphor about setting too many limits, but I won't get into it now.
As we all know,Hermes is a top brand,all of the hermes products are more than $1000 in the offical website, it's so expensive. but now We can get cheaper price(about $200) in the usa hermes online store:
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