Hermes

And he killed it with one blow, and bent it,
And then and there, all by himself,
Invented the tenor sax. O hippocrene Herm!
Hayden Carruth

“Soul guide” (psychopomp) of dead spirits to the underworld, "slayer of Argos"
(argeïphontes), and patron of merchants, travelers, and thieves, Hermes was a renowned
trickster who started his career while still an infant. It seems a shame that today we think
of him most often as the logo of FTD Florists.

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