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Hermes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Hermes (Greek ʽἙρμῆς IPA [her'me:s]), in Greek mythology, is the god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of orators, literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures and invention and commerce in general, of liars, and of the cunning of thieves. |
 | | Hermes was the god of thieves because he was very cunning and shrewd and was a thief himself from the night he was born, when he slipped away from his mother, the nymph Maia, and ran away to steal his elder brother Apollo's cattle. |
 | | Hermes was very loyal to his father Zeus, when Zeus fell in love with the nymph Io, Hermes saved her from the many-eyed Argus by lulling him to sleep with stories and songs, decapitating him with a crescent-shaped sword. |
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