By Maria Sanchez
Description: Hermes
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The staff (caduceus), messenger bag, winged sandals, and hat (ram and petasus) are all symbols that are associated with Hermes.
Pop Culture:
Hermes’ influence is seen clearly in the medical field with by them using his caduceus/staff as their own sign.
His winged sandals are also used as the logo of Goodyear Tires.
Family:
Hermes\' parents are Zeus and Maia.
Two of his most famous children are Hermaphroditus and Pan.
Short Tale:
When Hermes was a child he was very well known for playing tricks and hiding things where no one could find them.
One day, Hermes decided to play one of his tricks on his half-brother Apollo. He went to Pieria where Apollo kept his herd of cattle. When he got there, he flipped his sandals and all of the cattles’ hooves around so that they were facing the opposite way and hide them. This made it seem like the cattles were walking backwards. After Hermes had the herd well hidden he returned home and went to sleep.
When a Apollo came back, he was very confused to find his herd missing. He searched everywhere for them, but couldn’t find them. Eventually, he figured out it was Hermes who had hid his herd from him. Apollo was very upset by this and took Hermes up to Mount Olympus so that Zeus could punish him.
However, Zeus didn’t punish Hermes because he thought it was funny. He only told Hermes to return Apollo’s herd to him. Hermes agreed.
Afterward, Hermes felt bad about the whole situation and offered Apollo his lyre which he made himself. Apollo found this very nice and gave him a golden rod to guide the herd in return.
Hermes and Apollo were very close after all this.
