CLST 2090 : Exam #2 Notes Part 2
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God who gave pandora the character of a thief & the mind of a bitch. God of good luck ; god of the kind of fortune that"s pure luck (you can"t anticipate on it, it"s pure good fortune that comes out of nowhere) Also the god of businessmen & thieves; the reason why he"s god of these b/c these 2 professions rely on pure good luck over which you have no control. Also the god of the practical joke; humor can take you over; it represents power; it"s stronger than you are from time to time. Myth: maia (she gave her name to the month of may); maia gave birth to hermes in a cave; as soon as she left, baby. Hermes only had 48 of them b/c he sacrificed 2 of the cows; hermes plucked the strings of his lyre & when. Apollo saw the lyre, he asked hermes for that instead as compensation for the 2 missing cows.
