You may know him as the Messenger God, responsible for passing messages between the mortals and divine - but Hermes was so much more than an inter-dimensional postman. The son of Zeus and Maia, one of the Pleiades, Hermes was also a guardian of travellers, merchants, and orators. If that wasn’t enough, he also moonlighted as a patron god of flocks and shepherds.

Often portrayed as the "divine trickster", his tales, such as the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, highlight his wit and cunning. His iconic symbols include the caduceus (a staff intertwined with two snakes), the talaria (winged sandals), the petasos (a type of hat), and the rooster (the cock-a-doodle-do bird). Hermes is also associated with the number four, certain fish, and incense.