Long-long long-long-long ago in a faraway land there dwelt a god. A devious, scheming, thieving god. So troublesome this god, the people of that place wouldn’t allow him into their town.
“You’re to keep your troublesome ways away from us. Torment and trouble strangers, instead.”
The god snorted dissatisfaction. “You could at least give me somewhere to live, here on the bounds of your town. You have nice houses, but what do I have?”
The townsfolk agreed and hammered in thick chunky posts all around their bounds.
And there the god dwelt.
This arrangement worked so well that the god soon earned wide renown. Other towns erected posts for him, posts of stone, and they gave the god a name. Hermes.
This isn’t total fantasy. It’s my interpretation of the earliest stories of the Greek god Hermes
crispina kemp 
Brilliant adaptation! I love this!
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Thank you, Violet. Maybe being born under Hermes’ influence (Mercury, Gemini’s ruler) had inclined me to discover more about him. God of the Gates. God of the Bounds. God of the Post (called a hermes, I believe it had a phallic origin)
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I love your interpretation it’s very neat. I also love the photo of that face on the post in the photo. 💜💜💜
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At the start of our walk last week it looked like I wasn’t to get many photos. So the eyes started to search for something ‘different’ and ‘interesting’. That post qualified!
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He certainly did !!!
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🙏🥰🥰🥰
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Hermes the messenger 👌
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That’s the one. But before that, he was god of the bounds. And of traders.
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Very nice take about the fate of gods or rather the notion of them.
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I am so immersed in myths and mythology, they influence so much of what I write
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Excellent story, Crispina. I chose the same image to write about; kind of difficult to ignore a face like that!
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It yelled at me. And I knew I had to use it in this challenge
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