Hermes (Greek) / Mercury (Roman)
Son of Zeus and Maia, god of thieves, trading, flocks, roads, and also messenger of the gods. Represented fertility and guided souls on their way to Hades.
When Hermes was an infant, he left the cave he was born in and created the first Lyre from the shell of a tortoise and guts from the cows he dared to steal from Apollo. (The cow guts were used for strings.) Apollo finally found Hermes, safely back in his cradle. When Zeus heard that Hermes had mutilated and stolen Apollo’s cows, he was amused. Hermes began to play the Lyre he had made, and Apollo, charmed and no longer angry, offered to give Hermes the rest of his cattle in exchange for the wonderful new instrument.