My Greek Project of Hermes

1. HERMES
wydo.org
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2. Hermes
• Years alive: forever because gods don’t die.
• Born: Almost 10,000 years ago in a cave on
Mount Cylene in Arcudia.
• Strengths: Clever, Bold, Determined, Athletic,
Powerful imagician, and plays music.
• Weaknesses: No major weakness besides
seldom.
• Real Name: Hermes Diaktoros

3. Facts About Hermes
• Has no brothers or sister’s.
• He is still alive because gods don’t die.
• Hermes still sits on Mount Olympus
• The fastest of the god’s.
• The was the son on Zeus before he married
Hera.
• He also guides the souls of the Dead to Hades

4. Story Time
The baby was born in the morning, in a cave on Mount Cyllene.
Tired after the birth, his mother put him into the cradle, then
she fell asleep. But the mischievous baby got out of the cradle
and went as far as Pieria, where Apollo's herds were grazing. He
stole them and drove them home, but he was clever enough to
make some of them walk backwards, so as to lose their tracks.
On his way home, he also found a tortoise, that he killed and
cleaned of its entrails, then took it with him. When he got home,
he sacrificed two of the cows to the Olympian gods. The he took
the intestines of the sacrificed cows and put them on the hollow
shell of the tortoise, inventing the first lyre. It had nine chords, in
honour of the nine muses. He surely knew how to gain the
favours of the other gods!

5. Hermes is familiar as the messenger god in Greek
mythology. Zeus made his thieving son Hermes god of
commerce. Hermes invented various devices, especially
musical ones, and possibly fire. Most of the God’s think
is a helpful god. He wears winged sandals winged hat
and carry’s a magic wand. Hermes, the messenger god
on Mount Olympus, had a magic wand called a
Caduceus, which was given to him by Apollo. The
Caduceus is a rod or staff framed by two intertwined
snakes at the top of the staff are two wings.

6. One of his tasks was to guide the souls of the dead to the
underworld, that's why he was called pscychopomp. He
was the one who took Eurydice back to Hades, after
Orpheus took her out. At the end of the Odyssey, he takes
the souls of the dead suitors to the underworld.
The Greek god Hermes received the mission to save Zeus'
lover, Io, who has been transformed into a cow. Hera
wanted to have that cow and ordered Argus, the
hundred-eyed giant, to keep an eye on her. But Hermes
played a beautiful music, which made Argus fall asleep,
then he

9. What Makes A Good Story
• A good story has to have a start middle and a
end. You need a purpose to because a story
without a purpose is a bad story.

10. What Make Him Famous
• The most famous of his loves were the Nymph
Penlopeia (mother of Pan), and the maids
Herse of Athens, and Khione of Phokis. The
only metamorphosis story in this genre was
the obscure tale of his love for Krokos (the
crocus flower), echoing that of Apollon and
Hyakinthos.

11. What Do These Story Teach Us?
• They teach us that the Gods ruled and that
you don’t wan to bug one of them!

12. Bibliography
• Google
• Robert
• Theoi.com (both family trees from theoi)
• hpsdrhermes@blogspot.ca
• Gods, heroes and Monsters By: Ellen Switzer
• Ikariam(picture)
• By: Liam