In Greek mythology, Ceryx or Keryx ( English translation: " herald ") was a son of Hermes and either Pandrosus or Agraulus.

She married Cecrops and became the mother of Erysichthon, Aglaulus ( see below ), Herse, and Pandrosus.

Pandrosus ( or Pandrosos ; English translation: " the all-dewy one ") was a figure in Greek mythology, and a daughter of Cecrops, sister to Herse and Aglauros.

Athena in turn put the baby in a small box and gave it to the three sisters, Herse, Pandrosus, and Aglaurus, warning them to never open it.

An alternative version of the same story is that, while Athena was away from Athens, bringing a mountain from Pallena to use in the Acropolis, the sisters, minus Pandrosus again, opened the box.

Cecrops was the father of three daughters: Herse, Pandrosus and Aglaurus.

Athena gave the box to the three daughters of Cecrops, the king of Athens ( Herse, Pandrosus and Aglaurus ), and warned them never to open it.

The Erectheum was associated with some of the most ancient and holy relics of the Athenians: the Palladion, which was a xoanon ( defined as a wooden effigy fallen from heaven-not man-made ) of Athena Polias ( Protectress of the City ); the marks of Poseidon's trident and the salt water well ( the " salt sea ") that resulted from Poseidon's strike ; the sacred olive tree that sprouted when Athena struck the rock with her spear in her successful rivalry with Poseidon for the city ; the supposed burial places of the mythical kings Cecrops and Erechtheus ; the sacred precincts of Cecrops ' three daughters, Herse, Pandrosus and Aglaurus ; and those of the tribal heroes Pandion and Boutes.

Athena gave the box to the three daughters of Cecrops, the king of Athens ( Herse, Pandrosus and Aglaurus ), and warned them never to open it.

It was located by the temple of Pandrosus, next to the Parthenon.

In later times, during the Ptolemaic period, Anubis was merged with the Greek god Hermes, becoming Hermanubis.

Taking this into consideration, he was thus associated with Amenhotep son of Hapu, who was another deified architect, in the region of Thebes where they were worshipped as " brothers " in temples dedicated to Thot and later in Hermopolis following the syncretist concept of Hermes-Thot, a concept that led to another syncretic belief, that of Hermes Trismegistus and hermeticism.

A later tradition holds that in the reign of Emperor Hadrian, Alexander I converted the Roman governor Hermes by miraculous means, together with his entire household of 1, 500 souls.

Many of these names appearing in the Linear B inscriptions can be found later in classical Greece like Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Athena, Hermes, Eileithyia and Dionysos, but the etymology is the only evidence of the cults.

These associations to Thoth-Hermes could partially explain why some later Greek scholars linked Hermes Trismegistus to a hypothetical historical figure, given the numerous deifications.

A Mycenaean Greek reference found on a Linear B clay tablet at Pylos to a deity or semi-deity called TI-RI-SE-RO-E, Trisheros ( the " thrice or triple hero ") could be connected to the later epithet " thrice wise " " Trismegistos ", applied to Hermes / Thoth.

The majority of Greeks, and later Romans, did not accept Hermes Trismegistos in the place of Hermes.

In the videogame Persona 3 a character named Junpei wields a persona named Hermes which later morphs into Trismegistus.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ( Princeton University Press, 1993 ): deals with Thoth ( Hermes ) from his most primitive known conception to his later evolution into Hermes Trismegistus, as well as the many books and scripts attributed to him.

Thoth's chief temple was located in the city of Khmun, later renamed Hermopolis Magna during the Greco-Roman era ( in reference to him through the Greeks ' interpretation that he was the same as their god Hermes ) and Eshmûnên in the Coptic rendering.

His body was later recovered and brought in the temple of Hermes where it was honored with annual sacrifices.

Conversely, Thanatos may have originated as a mere aspect of Hermes before later becoming distinct from him.

The god, Hermes, is a generic term used by the pre-classical Greeks for any deity, and was only later associated with the god of knowledge in Athens in the 2nd Century CE.

Poimandres teaches the secrets of the Universe to Hermes, and later books are generally of Hermes teaching others such as Asclepius and his son Tat.

Hermes was a proposed spaceplane designed by the French Centre National d ' Études Spatiales ( CNES ) in 1975, and later by the European Space Agency.

Thus the Greek word Trismegistos " thrice grand " was first used as a Greek name for the Egyptian god of science and invention, Thot, and later as an epitheton for the Greek Hermes and, finally, the fully equated Roman Mercurius ( Mercury ; both were also messenger of the gods ).

Zoidberg once recommended a relaxation spa to Hermes and his wife which turned out to be a disguised forced-labor camp ( Zoidberg later rescued them ), and Hermes once forced Zoidberg to pay for damages to the Planet Express Corporation building which were actually caused by Leela.

Hermes is also known to dislike labor unions, once referring to Labor Day as created by " fat-cat union gangsters ", though seconds later he exclaims " Hot damn, a day off!

This event traumatized Hermes and he could not bring himself to limbo again until decades later, when he found it necessary to slide under a nearly-closed door aboard the space cruise ship Titanic in order to save the lives of himself and his co-workers.

After the disappearance of Zeus Picus ( who apparently reigned over both Italy and Assyria ), Belus son of Zeus Picus succeeded to the throne in Assyria ( and we later find Faunus who is elsewhere always the son of Picus reigning in Italy before moving to Egypt and turning into Hermes Trismegistus father of Hephaestus !).

Apollo complained to Maia that her son had stolen his cattle, but Hermes had already replaced himself in the blankets she had wrapped him in, so Maia refused to believe Apollo's claim.

Hermes then began to play music on the lyre he had invented.

Odysseus set out to rescue his men, but was intercepted by his great grandfather, Hermes, who had been sent by Athena.

Insignia are mainly heads of mythological characters or depictions of mythological beasts arranged in a symbolic motif: Apollo, Zeus, Janus, Athena, Hermes, griffin, gorgon, sphinx, hippocamp, bull, snake, eagle, or other creatures who had symbolic significance.

Later the staff had two intertwined snakes and sometimes it was crowned with a pair of wings and a ball, but the old form remained in use even when Hermes was associated with Mercury by the Romans.

In the Olympian telling, the gods Hermes and Apollo had wooed Persephone ; but Demeter rejected all their gifts and hid her daughter away from the company of the Olympian deities.

Persephone was released by Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, but she was obliged to spend four months of a year in the underworld, and the remaining two thirds with the gods above.

From the beginning, Mercury had essentially the same aspects as Hermes, wearing winged shoes talaria and a winged petasos, and carrying the caduceus, a herald's staff with two entwined snakes that was Apollo's gift to Hermes.

At Narbonne, Hermes, a former archdeacon, had been nominated by his predecessor and installed as bishop without the express sanction of Pope Leo.

Before Persephone was released to Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, Hades tricked her into eating pomegranate seeds, ( six or four according to the telling ) which forced her to return to the underworld for some months each year.

The Hermes fleet had continued in operation serving several UK airports, mainly on inclusive tour flights, with the last example being retired from service in late 1962.

Clement of Alexandria was under the impression that the Egyptians had forty-two sacred writings by Hermes, encapsulating all the training of Egyptian priests.

Idris / Hermes was termed " Thrice-Wise " Hermes Trismegistus because he had a threefold origin: the first Hermes, comparable to Thoth, was a " civilizing hero ," an initiator into the mysteries of the divine science and wisdom that animate the world: he carved the principles of this sacred science in hieroglyphs.

" And that would have been the end of Ares and his appetite for war, if the beautiful Eriboea, the young giants ' stepmother, had not told Hermes what they had done ," Dione related ( Iliad 5. 385 – 391 ).

He was the primordial king in the Peloponnesus, authorized by Zeus: " Formerly Zeus himself had ruled over men, but Hermes created a confusion of human speech, which spoiled Zeus ' pleasure in this Rule ".

In Zeus ' battle with Gaia, Aegipan and Hermes stole back Zeus ' " sinews " that Typhon had hidden away in the Corycian Cave.

To free Io, Zeus had Argus slain by Hermes.

On her way back from a spring, Apemosyne slipped on freshly skinned hides that Hermes had laid across her path.