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Greek Mythology: Hermes Symbols

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Hermes Symbols Hermes was the messenger God of the Greek people and the symbols given to define him in the Greek myths are directly related to his roles. During his first day of life, after being born to Zues and very beautiful mountain nymph, infant Hermes captured a tortoise and used the shell to construct a lyre. This first event shows that Hermes was very curious and precocious, which will be heavily supported later in his immortal life. In his young adulthood Hermes began to be known to the Greeks as the messenger God, the medium to which the Gods could speak to mortals, and was very well known for his aid to mankind. He assisted the great hero Perseus in his efforts to defeat Medusa by supplying him with his wing-like sandals and
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