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Hermes running with the lyre. From a red-figure kylix by Makron, c. 500–475 B.C.

“Coyote and Bird” petroglyph from Painted Desert—Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. Late Anasazi, c. A.D. 1100–1300. Detail of photograph by Linda Connor.

Divination tray with Eshu’s face at the top and a set of the sixteen palm nuts used in divination.

Tlingit Raven Helmet from Sitka, Alaska. In his beak, Raven holds the box of sunlight that he stole from heaven.

The baby Hermes in his cradle with his mother, Maia, and the cattle of Apollo. Hermes, only a day old, is wearing the petasos, the traveler’s hat. Exterior of a red-figure kylix by the Brygos painter, c. 480 B.C.

Danish forge stone showing Loki with his lips sewn shut.

The baby Krishna, tied to a mortar by his mother and the gopis, after having broken into the hanging butter pots in the background. Miniature by Kangra, c. 1790.

Bronze head of a caduceus (Hermes’ staff). Early fifth century B.C.

Baubo, the nurse in the Eleusinian Mysteries. Fifth-century B.C. terracotta figurine from the city of Priene in Asia Minor.

Monkey, from an early-nineteenth-century Japanese edition of The Journey to the West.