Hermes Trismegistus - Popular Culture

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In the novel Heresy by S J Parris one of the central themes is the search by Giordano Bruno for a lost work by Hermes Trimegistus.

In the videogame Persona 3 a character named Junpei wields a persona named Hermes which later morphs into Trismegistus.

In the 1983 movie The Keep, Hermes Trismegistus (Scott Glenn) battles his ancient foe Molesar in the keep that was his prison, when Wermacht troops unwittingly release him while subjugating Romania in 1941.

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