The overcoming of the isolation of the dead matter can take place only *against* the rational, logical and therefore only deductive, non-creative thinking.
Therefore *eros* also stands for the overcoming of clear thinking. The most elementary bridge from the single to the togetherness builds the love, a common new as triadic relationship springs from it. Eros balances the opposites through love, he is therefore in the division of labor of the Greek gods not only responsible for eroticism, but also for balancing the opposites.
Thus he also assumes a communicative function as a messenger: Eros is related to Hermes, whom the Romans later called Mercury, the winged messenger of the gods who overcomes seas, borders and walls in flight. The association of Eros, Hermes, and the magicians with the bird is a metaphor found in almost all cultures - as far back as the shamans of the Americas.
Another relative of Eros is the Egyptian Toth, or Hermes Trismegistos, as the Greeks later called him. Toth, depicted as a bird-man with a huge beak, delivers the universal teachings, the divine knowledge, to mankind. Part myth, part historical figure, he is considered the founder of Egyptian advanced civilization, builder of the Pyramid of Cheops and author of no less than 1200 books, from which many Egyptian inscriptions quote. Hermes Trismegistos is the archetype of The Magician and sorcerer who creates new things from the combination of known things.