Editing Hermes (section)

===Thief===
[[File:Hermes Propylaeus Roman copy Alkamens, Glyptothek Munich 159 120280.jpg|thumb|upright|200px|Hermes Propylaeus. Roman copy of the [[Alcamenes]] statue from the entrance of the Athenian [[Acropolis]], original shortly after the 450 BC.]]

*In the Lang translation of the ''Homeric Hymn to Hermes'', the god after being born is described as a ''robber'', ''a captain of raiders'' and a ''thief of the gates''.<ref>Andrew Lang, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16338/16338-h/16338-h.htm THE HOMERIC HYMNS A NEW PROSE TRANSLATION AND ESSAYS, LITERARY AND MYTHOLOGICAL] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924201605/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16338/16338-h/16338-h.htm |date=24 September 2015 }}. Transcribed from the 1899 George Allen edition.</ref>
*'''klepsiphron''' (κλεψίφρων), with the mind of a thief. 
<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/searchresults?all_words=kleyi/frwn&all_words_expand=yes&la=greek Hymn 4 to Hermes]</ref>
*'''pheletes''' (φηλητής), thief,<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Dfhlhth%2Fs  pheletes]</ref><ref name="Nilsson, Vol. I p.507">Nilsson, Vol. I p.507</ref>
*'''phelos''' (φήλος), deceitful.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=fh%3Dlos&la=greek&can=fh%3Dlos0&prior=fhlhth/s&d=Perseus:text:1999.04.0058:entry=fhlhth/s&i=1#Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=fh=los-contents phelos]</ref><ref name="Nilsson, Vol. I p.507"/>

According to the late Jungian psychotherapist López-Pedraza, everything Hermes thieves, he later sacrifices to the gods.<ref name="RLP"/>

====Patron of thieves====
[[Autolycus]] received his skills as the greatest of thieves due to sacrificing to Hermes as his patron.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=GkZJehm339wC&dq=Hermes+sacrifices+all+he+thieves+to+the+gods&pg=PA77 ''The Homeric Hymns'' (pp. 76–77)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412054911/https://books.google.com/books?id=GkZJehm339wC&dq=Hermes+sacrifices+all+he+thieves+to+the+gods&pg=PA77 |date=12 April 2023 }}, edited by [[Apostolos Athanassakis|AN Athanassakis]], JHU Press, 2004, {{ISBN|0-8018-7983-3}}.</ref>