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According to the [[Homeric hymn|Homeric ''Hymn to Hermes'']], Zeus, in the dead of night, secretly made love to Maia, 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>
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=== ヘルメースの誕生 ===
ホメロスの『ヘルメス讃歌（''Hymn to Hermes''）』によると、ゼウスは真夜中にキュレネの洞窟で、神々との交わりを避けていたマイア<ref>''Homeric Hymns'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D4 4.5]</ref>と密かに愛を育んでいた。マイアはヘルメースを身ごもった。出産後、マイアは赤ん坊を毛布にくるんで寝た。急速に成長した幼いヘルメースは、テッサリア地方に這い出し、最初の日の夕暮れには異母兄アポローンの牛を'''盗み'''、亀の甲羅から竪琴を発明したのである。マイアはアポローンがヘルメースこそ泥棒だと主張しても信じず、ゼウスはアポローンに味方した。、亀の甲羅から竪琴を発明したのである。マイアはアポローンがヘルメースこそ泥棒だと主張しても信じず、ゼウスはアポローンに味方した。そして、アポローンは牛を竪琴と交換し、竪琴はアポローンの特徴のひとつとなった<ref>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>。
Although the ''Homeric Hymn'' has Maia as Hermes' caretaker and guardian, in [[Sophocles]]'s now lost [[satyr play]] ''[[Ichneutae]]'', Maia entrusted the infant Hermes to [[Cyllene (nymph)|Cyllene]] (the local mountain goddess) to nurse and raise, and thus it is her that the satyrs and Apollo confront when looking for the god's missing cattle.<ref>{{cite book | title = A Companion to Sophocles | first1 = Kirk | last1 = Ormand | publisher = Wiley Blackwell | isbn = 978-1-119-02553-5 | date = 2012 | page = [https://books.google.com/books?id=ad0qBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA163 163]}}</ref>
