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[[File:Cup Mercury Maia CdM.jpg|thumb|350px|自由民P. アエリウス・ユーティカスが奉納した銀杯の中のマイアとメルクリウス<ref>カドゥケウスの存在、クラミスと呼ばれる片肩の衣服、翼のある頭部などからメルクリウスの同定は確実だが、女性像についてはさまざまな見解が出されている。 The cup is part of the [[Berthouville Treasure]], found within a [[Gallo-Roman religion|Gallo-Roman]] temple precinct; see Lise Vogel, ''The Column of Antoninus Pius'', Loeb Classical Library Monograph (Harvard University Press, 1973), p. 79 f., and Martin Henig, ''Religion in Roman Britain'', Taylor & Francis, 1984, 2005, p. 119 f. In [[Gaul]], Mercury's regular consort is one of the Celtic goddesses, usually [[Rosmerta]]. The [[Rosmerta#Etymology|etymology of Rosmerta's name]] as "Great Provider" suggests a theology compatible with that of Maia "the Great". The consort on the cup has also been identified as [[Venus (mythology)|Venus]] by M. Chabouillet, ''Catalogue général et raisonné des camées et pierres gravées de la Bibliothéque Impériale'', Paris 1858, p. 449. Maia is suggested by the concomitant discovery of a silver bust, not always considered part of the hoard proper but more securely identified as Maia and connected to Rosmerta; see E. Babelon, ''Revue archéologique'' 24 (1914), pp. 182–190, as summarized in ''American Journal of Archaeology'' 19 (1915), p. 485.</ref>（ガロ・ローマ時代の宗教遺跡から、紀元後2世紀末に出土）]]

According to the [[Homeric hymn|Homeric ''Hymn to Hermes'']], Zeus, in the dead of night, secretly made love to Maia,<ref>''[[Homeric Hymns]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D4 4.5]</ref> who avoided the company of the gods, in a cave of Cyllene. She became pregnant with [[Hermes]]. After giving birth to the baby, Maia wrapped him in blankets and went to sleep. The rapidly maturing infant Hermes crawled away to [[Thessaly]], where by nightfall of his first day he stole some of his half-brother [[Apollo (god)|Apollo]]'s cattle and invented the [[lyre]] from a tortoise shell. Maia refused to believe Apollo when he claimed that Hermes was the thief, and Zeus then sided with Apollo. Finally, Apollo exchanged the cattle for the lyre, which became one of his identifying attributes.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.10.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=:chapter=&highlight=Maia 3.10.2]</ref>