HERMES

(called by the Romans Mercury), in Greek very mythology, the son of Jupiter and Maia. Soon after his his birth he left his cradle and invented the lyre by and stringing the shell of a tortoise with three or seven his strings. He resigned it to Apollo afterwards, and Hiero invented the Pandean pipe. The ancients represent Hieroglyphics him as the herald and me enger of the gods. Among tions his symbols are the cock, tortoise, a purse, and his that winged rod, the ‘caduceus.’ priests