Hermes Pronunciation: hur'-meez Roman Name: Mercury Special Weapon/Object(s): Winged-Sandles & Hat, and his Kerykeion (staff)  Place of Association: Arcadia Animal(s):  Cock, Tortoise Son of: Zeus & Maia Sexual Affaris & Children:  unkown (Abderus), Apemosyne, Herse (Cephalus), Dryope (Pan), Aphrodite (Hermaphroditus),

Pan- The Goat God

Pan is the son of Hermes and the nymph Dryope.  He was born on Mount Lycaeum, south of modern Greece near Arcadia, where he was worshiped.  Pan had many attributes as a god.  He was god of goats, and sheep, and their shepherds.  He was also a god of bee keeping and music, playing upon the reed pipes he made from the transformed body of the nymph Syrinx.  Sometimes he was reffered to as the minor god of the sea.  He was a god of prophesy and also was also quite known for his sexual habits.  Overall he was a god of nature; meadows; forests; beasts; and even human nature.

Unlike the other, more heroic Greek deties, Pan's adventures tended toward the comical.          King Midas was asked to judge a musical contest between Pan and Apollo.  When he chose Pan, Apollo punished the king by giving him ears of an ass.      In another farce Pan was in pursuit of Omphale, the queen of Lydia, but on that crucial night she had swapped clothes with Hercules and so Pan got into the bed with him instead and got kicked across the room.  After that he banned all clothing at his religous rites and spread rumors that Herucles was a transvestite.

Abderus

Abderus was the son of Hermes, a weapon bearer and great friend of Hercules.  When Hercules left Abderus to look after the mare of Diomedes, which dragged him across the countryside, there by riping him to pieces.  The city of Abdera, founded by Hercules, was named in the hornor of Abderus.

Hermaphroditus

Hermaphroditus was born as a boy, being nursed by the Naiads in the caves of Mount Ida.  When he was 15 years old, he decided to travel and wander in unknown land, visiting the cities of Lycians and the Carians, and somewhere he found a pool of clear water.  In the pool lived the Naiad Salmacis, who, unlike other Naiads, was not seen in the retinue of Artemis, since she preferred to gather flowers rather than go hunting.  And that is what she was doing when Hermaphroditus approached the pool.  On seeing him, Salmacis fell immediately in love and declared openly her love to him, but since he refused both love and kisses, she turned away and left, pretending to accept his rejection.  Shortly after, Hermaphroditus, feeling he was by himself, dived into the pool and started swimming.  But then Salmacis appeared agian in the waters, holding him fast, stealing kisses, and embracing him: and the more he tried to escape, the more she clung to him.  While she was thus overwhelming him, she prayed to the gods not to let them ever be separated, and it was then that the gods, having heard the prayer, merged the two bodies in one.  From that day they were no more two persons, nor was it possible to call them man and woman any longer, but being one they seemed neither, and yet both.

Cephalus

In Greek Mythology, the son of Hermes and Herse, a daughter of Cecrops.  He was married to Procris, a daughter of Erechtheus.  Whil hunting he was kidnapped by Eos, but she could not diminish his love for Procris.  However, when Procris, out of jealousy, spied on her husband during one of his hunts, he mistook her for an animal and accidentally killed her.  Cephalus was banned for this.  Later he helped Amphitryon in a war, and for his assistance he was awarded with the island of Cephallenia.