Above all, Hermes was very close with his father, acting in many of his affairs as Zeus’ wingman. He was the one who guided Persephone back to her mother, Demeter.
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Artemis supposedly taught him how to hunt and Pan how to play the pipes. Hermes, a Darling of the Godsīy all accounts, Hermes was a darling of the gods. Some say that as a token of this promise, Apollo gifted Hermes with the latter one’s most emblematic object: the caduceus. In exchange for it, Apollo forgave his little brother everything and swore to be his closest friend forevermore. Once he found out who had stolen his cattle, Apollo was so angry at Hermes that bad things might have happened if Hermes hadn’t appeased Apollo with a lyre- accompanied song. Then, honoring the Pleiades, he stretched seven strings of sheep-gut over the empty shell. To invent the lyre, Hermes killed a tortoise and scooped the flesh out of its shell.
Afterward, he came back and innocently tucked himself up in his cradle. That very same evening, for reasons unknown, he stole the cattle of Apollo. By noon he was able to invent the lyre and play a hymn celebrating his own birth on it. He was born in a cave in Mount Cyllene in Arcadia at dawn. Hermes was the son of Zeus and Maia, the oldest of the seven Pleiades. The 12 Olympian Gods Hermes’ Life and Deeds Hermes, a Precocious Child In time, he came to be known as “the conductor” or “the leader of souls.” People also called him “patron of travelers and thieves,” “shepherd of men,” “trickster,” and “Argus-slayer.” Hermes was the only Olympian capable of crossing the boundary between the living and the dead and carrying the souls of the dead in Hades. In Greece, an interpreter was called hermeneus, and today the science of interpretation is known as hermeneutics. As such, he is often associated with oratory or interpretation. Hermes' EpithetsĪccording to some myths, Hermes wasn’t only a messenger of the gods, but also the inventor of speech. It is very similar and frequently confused with the Rod of Asclepius, which is why Hermes’ wand is often incorrectly used as a symbol of medicine. Hermes’ wand – a short-winged staff, entangled by two identical serpents – had magical powers, bringing sleep upon people or rousing them from it. However, later on, he was represented as an athletically built nude youth, immediately recognizable by four attributes: a broad-brimmed hat ( petasos), winged sandals ( talaria), a purse, and a herald’s wand ( kerykeion, or caduceus in Latin). Hermes' Portrayal and SymbolismĪrchaic artists portrayed Hermes as a mature bearded man.
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Some say that the first cairn was erected by the gods, when they cast all their stones in favor of Hermes, during his trial for slaying Argus Panoptes. Most scholars think that Hermes’ name derives from the Greek word herma, which means “a heap of stones” or “cairn.” Cairns were a common sight in the Ancient world, serving as trail- or boundary-markers.
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