Editing Cairn (section)

==== Greece and the Balkans ====
In the mythology of ancient Greece, cairns were associated with [[Hermes]], the god of overland travel.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Doyle |first1=Jessica |editor1=Gabriel Cooney |editor2=Bernard Gilhooly |editor3=Niamh Kelly |editor4=Sol Mallía-Guest |title=Cultures of stone: An interdisciplinary approach to the materiality of stone |date=2020 |publisher=Sidestone Press |location=Leiden |isbn=978-90-8890-893-4 |pages=261–274 |chapter=All of a Heap: Hermes and the stone cairn in Greek antiquity|url=https://www.academia.edu/43289833}}</ref> According to one legend, Hermes was put on trial by [[Hera]] for slaying her favorite servant, the monster [[Argus Panoptes|Argus]]. All of the other gods acted as a jury, and as a way of declaring their verdict they were given pebbles, and told to throw them at whichever person they deemed to be in the right, Hermes or Hera. Hermes argued so skillfully that he ended up buried under a heap of pebbles, and this was the first cairn.
In [[Croatia]], in areas of ancient [[Dalmatia]], such as [[Herzegovina]] and the [[Krajina]], they are known as ''gromila''.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}