God Hermes Archetypes

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I wanted to focus on the story of the Greek Trickster God Hermes. Hermes is described as deceitful, trickery, childish, amoral, humorous, extremely inventive, and one of great charm, these are all a few of the common traits shared among the archetype of the trickster. ( Tricksters are used in the media so often and a majority of the time they are used as an antagonist, sometimes a rather incompetent one, but then there are the ones that are also so clever that they are more dangerous than they previously appeared. A character that came to mind while reading about Hermes was Bill Cipher from the show Gravity Falls. They both are very clever in the way they talk to others and only need their words to trick people, for Hermes he swayed Apollos

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