Hermes (/'h??rmi?z/; Greek: ??�??

) is the god of trade, heraldry, merchants,

commerce, roads, thieves, trickery, sports, travelers, and athletes in Ancient
Greek religion and mythology; the son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maia, he was the
second youngest of the Olympian gods (Dionysus being the youngest).

Hermes was the emissary and messenger of the gods.[1] Hermes was also "the divine
trickster"[2] and "the god of boundaries and the transgression of boundaries, ...
the patron of herdsmen, thieves, graves, and heralds."[3] He is described as moving
freely between the worlds of the mortal and divine, and was the conductor of souls
into the afterlife.[4] He was also viewed as the protector and patron of roads and
travelers.[5]

In some myths, he is a trickster and outwits other gods for his own satisfaction or
for the sake of humankind. His attributes and symbols include the herma, the
rooster, the tortoise, satchel or pouch, winged sandals, and winged cap. His main
symbol is the Greek kerykeion or Latin caduceus, which appears in a form of two
snakes wrapped around a winged staff with carvings of the other gods.[6]
Zeus (/zju?s/; Ancient Greek: ?e??, Ze�s [zdeu?s]) is the sky and thunder god in
ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods of Mount Olympus. His name is
cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent Jupiter
Helios, (Greek: �Sun�) in Greek religion, the sun god, sometimes called a
Titan. ... From the 5th century bce, Apollo, originally a deity of radiant purity,
was more and more interpreted as a sun god. ... �Greek mythology, the son of
Helios, the sun god, and a woman or nymph variously.