When Typhon revolted against heaven, the monster severed Zeus' sinews and put them away, hidden in a bearskin, and he set to guard them the she-dragon Delphyne, who was a half-bestial maiden. Städtische Galerie-Liebighaus, Museum alter Plastik, Frankfurt. Hermes gave another lyre to Amphion 1, who fortified the city of Thebes, the stones following his lyre.ġ009: Head of Hermes Ludovisi from 2C AD, after an Attic model from 5C BC. The golden wand, the Caduceus, is a splendid staff of riches and wealth, which keeps Hermes scatheless. So Apollo offered to give Hermes the golden wand that he used while he herded cattle, but in the bargain Hermes received from Apollo, besides the wand, the art of divining by pebbles. And this pipe was so amazing that Apollo desired it too. So they agreed, and Hermes went pasturing the cattle, making a shepherd's pipe for himself. However, in the process Apollo discovered the lyre that Hermes had invented, and was willing to give Hermes the cattle in exchange for the musical instrument. Hermes at first denied the theft, but as nobody believed him, he was forced to lead Apollo to Pylos, and restore the cattle. So Apollo took the child to Zeus, and claimed the cattle back. But Maia could only show him the innocent child in his cradle. So Apollo, having discovered the circumstances of the theft by divination, came to Maia at Mount Cyllene, and accused Hermes. In the meantime, Apollo came to Pylos looking for Hermes, but no one in the city was able to say in which direction the boy with the cattle had disappeared. "If you die, then you shall make sweetest song" (Hermes to the tortoise. He sacrificed two animals and then returned to Cyllene where he found a tortoise, and having strung its shell with chords made of the cattle he had sacrificed, he produced a lyre and invented the plectrum too. When stealing the cattle, and in order not to be detected, Hermes put shoes on their feet and brought them to Pylos, hiding the rest in a cave. Also others had later their shapes transformed by Hermes: the Athenian Aglaurus 2 was transformed into a stone (see Envy), and for having offended the gods, he transformed Agron 1 into a plover, Eumelus 5 into a raven, and Alcathoe, Arsippe and Leucippe 4 into birds. But, not being able to keep his promise, he was turned by Hermes into a stone. The theft was witnessed by Battus 1, who promised not to tell. Hermes was born with the dawn, at mid-day he played on the lyre, and in the evening he went to Pieria, a region about Mount Olympus in northern Thessaly, and stole the cattle of Apollo, while Apollo was distracted because of his love for Hymenaeus 2. Some say that Hermes was raised by Acacus, son of the Arcadian king Lycaon 2. Maia gave birth to Hermes in a cave in Mount Cyllene in Arcadia. Hermes is called Argiphontes, for having killed the All-seeing Argus 1 who guarded Io, and Psychopompus for being the guide of souls to the Underworld. Hermes, the robber and cattle driver, the prince of tricksters, the thief at the gates, the bringer of dreams, the patron of travellers, is also the governor of the tongue, and the guide of intelligent speech. To him is ascribed the introduction of the sending of embassies to sue for peace. Hermes is the messenger of Zeus and the herald of the gods. For I will take and cast you into dusky Tartarus and awful hopeless darkness, and neither your mother nor your father shall free you." ( Apollo to Hermes. "Child, lying in the cradle, make haste and tell me of my cattle, or we two will soon fall out angrily. For I will break into his great house, and will plunder therefrom splendid tripods, and cauldrons, and gold, and plenty of bright iron, and much apparel." (Hermes to Maia. And if Apollo shall seek me out, I think another and a greater loss will befall him. If Zeus will not give it me, I will seek to be a prince of robbers. "Better to live in fellowship with the deathless gods continually, rich, wealthy, and enjoying stores of grain, than to sit always in a gloomy cave: and, as regards honor, I too will enter upon the rite that Apollo has. 3625: Kopf des Hermes von Olympia um 330/20 v.
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