Hermes (Biografia En Ingles)

Birth
According to legend, Hermes was born in a cave on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia. Zeus had impregnated Maia at the dead of night while all other gods slept. When dawn broke amazingly he was born.Maia wrapped him in swaddling bands, then resting herself, fell fast asleep. Hermes, however, squirmed free and ran off to Thessaly. This is where Apollo, his brother, grazed his cattle. Hermes stole anumber of the herd and drove them back to Greece. He hid them in a small grotto near to the city of Pylos and covered their tracks. Before returning to the cave he caught a tortoise, killed it andremoved its entrails. Using the intestines from a cow stolen from Apollo and the hollow tortoise shell, he made the first lyre. When he reached the cave he wrapped himself back into the swaddling bands.When Apollo realized he had been robbed he protested to Maia that it had been Hermes who had taken his cattle. Maia looked to Hermes and said it could not be, as he is still wrapped in swaddlingbands. Zeus the all powerful intervened saying he had been watching and Hermes should return the cattle to Apollo. As the argument went on, Hermes began to play his lyre. The sweet music enchanted Apollo,and he offered Hermes to keep the cattle in exchange for the lyre.
Family
Hermes, the herald of the Olympian gods, is the son of Zeus and the nymph Maia, daughter of Atlas and one of the Pleiades.* Divine Offspring
Angelia: The goddess of messages was a daughter of Hermes.
Eleusis: The goddess of the Eleusinian Mysteries. She was a daughter of Hermes and Daeira.
Hermaphroditus: Thehermaphroditic daimon, a son of Hermes and Aphrodite. His form was merged with that of the Naiad Salmakis to form a creature that was half male and half female.
Pan: The goat-footed god of shepherds was ason of Hermes and the Nymphe Penelopeia.
The Panes: Two of the goat-footed Panes were sons of Hermes - Agreus whose mother was the Nymphe Sose and Nomios whose mother was the Nymphe Penelopeia....