How Smart Hermes Was.

Hermes was the son of Zeus and a mortal woman named Maia. He was the gods' messenger, and also sent the dead souls to the underworld. This is the statue of Hermes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes

This is a famous myth about how smart Hermes was:

When Hermes was a little boy, a toddler age, he went to steal Apollo's 50 cows for fun. Apollo was a god, but a sheperd too.  He threw away his own sandals and made another, with the straps on the place where the heels should be. So when he walked, his tracks were showing backwards. He also brought and pulled the cows backwards, so that Apollo would not recognize the tracks and go the wrong way. He passed an old man and gave him several cows, telling him not to tell anyone if he passed. But he didn't trust the old man so a little time later, he dressed as a traveller and asked the old man if a little kid went this way. The old man told the truth, and so Hermes with rage changed the man into stone. Then he brought the cattle towards where he lived: a cave. Soon it became night and Hermes killed 2 cows, and divided it as an offering to the 12 gods, (except Apollo, of course, so the twelfth is for him), then continued on his way towards the cave. He hid the cows there. 

When Apollo found out that his cattle had been stolen, he tried to track it but wasn't able to. When he found out that it was Hermes who stole it, he went to the cave and found Hermes there. Hermes just looked at him with an innocent face, and when Apollo accused him for stealing the cattle, Hermes just said that he (Hermes) was still a toddler, how could he steal 50 cows all on his own? After argueing, Apollo brought Hermes to Zeus. Zeus was ammused by Hermes's theft, but asked him to confess his mistake. So finally Hermes confessed his mistake and showed Apollo what he just did. Then he played the lyre that he just made and learned how to play, and Apollo really wanted that lyre. So he traded his cattle wih Hermes for the lyre, and also gave him the Herald's Golden Staff, which was one of his symbols now. The other one was the winged sandals that Zeus gave him for he was the gods' messenger. Afther this exchange Apollo became the god of music, and Hermes became a shepperd, like Apollo's job before. 

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                       That's the end of the famous myth of Hermes.