The Birth of Hermes | Prince of Thieves 

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SOURCES & BIBLIOGRAPHY :
The Gods of the Greeks, C. Kerenyi.
The Homeric Hymns, Athanassakis, Second Edition, Johns Hopkins.
The Homeric Hymns, Hugh G. Evelyn-White [As Quoted].
The Orphic Hymns, Thomas Taylor.
The Cults of the Greek States, Volume 5, Lewis Richard Farnell.
Hermes the Thief, the Evolution of a Myth, Norman Oliver Brown.
*Evidence for Zeus’ birth in Arcadia - The Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project is a collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, the University of Arizona, and the Greek Archaeological Service in Tripolis, Greece.
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There is no more enigmatic god than Hermes, Prince of Thieves, god of the merchant, traveler, and guide of souls in the underworld.
Indeed his roles expand into a great list of responsibilities for Zeus, whose messages Hermes dutifully delivers to the mortal and immortal worlds.
In this video, we explore the Birth of Hermes in Arcadia, as told in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. This is the origin story of the most cunning of the gods.
And his rustic cult who spread his worship throughout the islands on the Aegean offers us many examples of how a culture embodied the traits of their gods.