![]() Big, Screwed-Up Family: The original, though they seem to be capitalizing on Zagreus's ignorance to make a rosy first impression.According to Persephone, part of the reason she chose to flee the Underworld beside her heartbreak over Zagreus being stillborn was because she knew the Gods would fly into a rage and punish her if they learned she had defied the Fates' decree forbidding Hades from having a heir. Berserk Button: Defying the Three Fates.Adapted Out: Of the Twelve Olympians in the original myths, Apollo, Hephaestus and Hera are noticeably only mentioned (but never seen), and the game uses the interpretation that favors Dionysus over Hestia as one of the twelve.Otherwise, they're nothing but supportive towards Zagreus and are eager to meet him in person. While they certainly become offended if you side against them in the Trial of the Gods, they get over it after surviving. Adaptational Nice Guy: In Greek mythology, the Olympians are known for being vindictive and petty.Hermes learned from the Thriae the arts of fortune telling and divination. ![]() Ford named one of its models of cars after him, while the Greek post office uses Hermes as its symbol. In the modern imagination Mercury is still a sigil of travel and communication. In the East, Mercury took over Hermes' association with Thoth, providing a powerful figurehead of magic for cabals of occult practitioners. The most widespread candidate was a god called Lugh who, like Mercury, had many talents. In the western Roman provinces, Mercury was equated with a variety of local Celtic deities who shared some of Mercury's attributes. A "mercurial" personality became proverbial, and the Roman emperor Augustus himself was unfavorably portrayed with such a personality by Horace. The magic and humorous duplicity of Mercury is also present. Roman literature, inspired closely by Homeric epic, has Mercury performing as a divine herald and guide at the behest of Jupiter. From there he became one of the principle deities of negotiatores, or Roman businessmen. His cult was established in very early Rome to solicit divine protection of the emerging grain trade. Under Greek influence it seems the two gods were linked early on, with the myths of Hermes being transferred to that of Mercury. Mercury, like Hermes, was the god of circulation - of people, goods and words. The deity Mercury had a temple on the Aventine and a festival celebrated on May 15th. This conflated Hermes-Thoth (called Hermes Trismegistus, or Hermes Thrice-Great) would later become a mythological front for an occult movement in late Antiquity known as Hermeticism. In the Hellenistic age he was conflated with Thoth, the Egyptian scribe god of magic. Hermes had few temple cults but was celebrated generally in everyday life of the Greeks. At a later date he also became a patron of the gymnasium, and the athletics and rhetoric that was taught there. A phallic stone pile bearing his likeness, called a Herm, was erected at the boundaries of property lines as an apotropaic talisman. Hermes was celebrated early in cult as the patron of travelers, heralds and herdsman. He was the only god that could easily traverse the boundaries between earth, Olympus and Hades. ![]() Hermes was also thought to lead shades, or souls of the recently dead, to the waiting ferryman at the River Styx. It is in this capacity he appears in both The Iliad and The Odyssey. Hermes soon became the herald of Zeus, and a special guide for those under Zeus' protection. This amoral cleverness would become a defining trait of Hermes. The last was accomplished more with guile and dark humor than malice. Immediately after birth he invented the lyre from a tortoise shell, as well as stealing his brother Apollo's herd of cattle. Hermes was the son of Zeus, king of the gods, and a nymph named Maia. ![]()
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