The son of Maya, one of the sisters of the Pleiades and the supreme God Zeus (Jupiter)
the tradition of Hellas calls him the son of the god Zeus and Maya, the daughter of the titan Atlanta, one of the Pleiades. According to Diodorus Siculus, Maya, the eldest of the Pleiades, was the first to marry for the birth of great gods and heroes. And it is noteworthy that Ovid refers the chanting of Hermes-Mercury in Fasti to the 5th book, which corresponds exactly to the month of May, the floor
who named himself in honor of the mother of Hermes:
Glorious grandson of Atlanta, appear! On the heights of Arcadia You were born from Jupiter of old and from the Pleiades!
Fasty
His name is Mercury. This God has long since become a symbol of everything secret and secret hermetic. In his hands is a magical caduceus - a magic wand - an attribute of a magician and a sorcerer, a Hierophant and an Initiate. With this caduceus, he wrests the souls from the dead and leads them with him to the realm of the dead; he is the messenger of the gods and the patron of travelers.
CADUCEUS
Wand with two snakes coiled around it, surmounted by two small wings or a winged helmet. It is considered the oldest symbol, found, for example, in India, where it is engraved on stone slabs and is called nagakals (rod of nagas), representing a kind of sacrifice placed in front of the entrance to temples. In accordance with esoteric Buddhism, the rod corresponds to the ax of the world, the snake refers to the force called Kundalini, which in the teachings of tantra is represented as a snake coiled, sleeping at the base of the axis and means the evolutionary force of pure energy. Heinrich Zimmer traced the image of the caduceus all the way to Mesopotamia, finding it, in particular, in the drawing of the sacred cup of King Gudea from the Sumerian city of Lagash (c. 2200 BC).