Hermes

Meanings

1. The herald and messenger of the gods, and the god of roads, commerce, invention, cunning, and theft.
2. The Egyptian Thoth, identified with the Greek Hermes.
3. The planet Mercury when observed as an evening star.

1. A head or bust on a square base, often double-faced.

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς (Hermês), itself of disputed meaning and origin, possibly of non-Indo-European substrate origin or from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together”).