Sold God Hermes Statue Handmade - Hermes Bearing the Child Dionysos - Hermes Bust

* DIMENSIONS
Width: 9cm(3.5inc)

Height: 24.5cm(9.5inc)

Depth: 5.5cm(2.2inc)

Weight: 0.585kg
(0.585kg= 1lb)

* I used natural marble powder compressed at high pressure in its construction. Its production requires a long and laborious process. I used aging paint techniques to make the colors look worn. I added a polished and painted wooden pedestal to its base.


* THE MYTHOLOGICAL STORY OF HERMES
Hermes is the winged herald and messenger of the Olympian gods. In addition, he is also a divine trickster, and the god of roads, flocks, commerce, and thieves. A precocious newborn, he invented the lyre and stole Apollo's cattle on the very first day of his life. Hermes was the only Olympian capable of crossing the border between the living sold and the dead.

Most scholars think that Hermes' name derives from the Greek word herma, which means “a heap of stones” or “cairn.” Cairns were a common sight in the Ancient world, serving as trail- or boundary-markers. Some say that the first cairn was erected by the gods, when they cast all their stones in favor of Hermes, during his trial for slaying Argus Panoptes.

Hermes was the only Olympian capable of crossing the boundary between the living and the dead and carrying the souls of the dead in Hades. In time, he came to be known as “the conductor” or “the leader of souls.” People also called him “patron of travelers and thieves,” “shepherd of men,” “trickster,” and “Argus-slayer.”