What does the saying the bird of Hermes is my name eating my wings to make me tame mean?

Answer 1

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Ripley Scrowle wrote this verse in his book.

Well the fact that the bird of the Hermes trims its wings to keep them in order, the fact that it is eating them completely is signifying the fact that there is something over done. Also it could symbolizes that his freedom is gone.

The trans for the Ripley Scroll isn't my work, only the second part where I'm just writing down how I think its tied to Alucard.

In the sea without lees: An aspect of the limitless ocean (the border of the infinite approached by the divinity within man)

Standeth the bird of Hermes : Exists the human soul

Eating his wings variable: Consuming it's vehicles (utilising the fruits of earthly experience, in the process of alchemical transmutation)

developing and uniting within that higher consciousness (or achieving stability, peace, a higher focal point of consciousness that is perpetual and maintained)

And maketh himself yet full stable: When the process of incarnation is complete (when all the fruits have been harvested, so to speak, and the ties to earthly life absolved)

When all his feathers be from him gone: Stability is achieved (the soul moves down from the ocean of the infinite no longer, ie, is fully divine, human life is ended)

He standeth still here as a stone: All qualities are possessed and united (one is all things, as a reflection of that infinite, a drop within the ocean)

Here is now both white and red: One is an expression of Life, and brings life to those about one, inspiring them towards the same within (the philosophers stone is the aspect of material life which is a catalyst for the transmutation to spirit. For the alchemist, life and death are reversed, the divine spirit is freed into life through earthly death, and we that live upon the earth are the dead, trapped in prisons of matter, of flesh) All life has lead to achieving this goal.

And all so the stone to quicken the dead: All life has lead to achieving this goal.

All and some without fable: There is no exception

Both hard and soft and malleable: Possessing all qualities, being all things, fluid, and complete, able to fulfill whatever purpose is required

Understand now well and right: Understand now, correctly, for this is of importance

And thank you God of this sight: it is of divine revelation

The bird of Hermes is my name: I (you) are in truth the soul, this is our true identity, not the human self, but the higher.

Eating my wings to make me tame: Using earthly life to achieve this end, devouring that which has given movement (that is moving through the experience, after which the vehicles, the human incarnation, serve no further purpose, and are destroyed, so that the life within may be freed) bringing all under the control of the thinker, the dweller within the form. The identity of the self becomes divine and all powerful within the sphere of that self, is no longer moved by outside forces, has reaped all that can be, and now resides within the bosom of the infinite.

"Only a man can truly hope to kill a monster"

"It is only when you refuse to give in with all your heart that you begin to transcend your humanity." Alucard sadden by grief on his failures and fear of death choose to give in and for this he is unable to become a higher being.

Alucard has two Paganism references on him. The obvious one is the Pentacle symbol on his gloves. The second is his epithet "The Bird of Hermes." Hermes was the Greek messenger god, noted for his winged sandals and ability to fly. Hermes was also noted for transporting souls to the Underworld, while Alucard in contrast devours them.

Blood is the currency of the soul.

He has forsaken his humanity he has forsaken his soul. Therefore he must consume souls, so he can satisfy his "thirst"(the desire to become human again the desire to have a soul and be able to leave this world and transcend to a higher being).

The bird of Hermes is my name: I (you) are in truth the soul, this is our true identity, not the human self, but the higher- Alucard forsake his soul so he forsake himself that is why he says no matter what form he takes it has no meaning. Those forms aren't really himself.