
This is the story about Hermes, Hermes has been in more stories than anyone in Greek mythology, mainly because he is Zeus' herald and messenger. Now this is his story when he was a new born baby. Hermes is a very mischievous god. He is the God of Thieves, Messengers, and Speed. Now as a baby he was still this way. So he decided he would steal a few of his step-brother, Apollo's, sacred cows. He crawled all the way to the cattle and got them to walk backwards in his footsteps so it would look like he was just visiting them instead of stealing them, now during all of this his Mother Maia was sleeping. So Hermes snuck back in a hide the cattle. Little did he know that Zeus, his father, was watching him. Apollo said to Zeus that someone had stolen his sacred cattle and Zeus seeing the whole thing demanded Hermes give back his cattle, but baby Hermes had other plans, he had found a turtle shell and attached 5 strings top to bottom on the shell, he called this a Lyre. He said that he would give Apollo the lyre of he could have the cattle. Apollo agreed to this and took the lyre. This was just the first of Hermes mischeif later on in the stories.
