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…showed last 75 words of 329 total…music, light, respect for law, and youthful good health. Hermes might have been a cleaver trickster, but he was also very athletic and invented boxing and the footrace. He also persuaded Calypso to release Odysseus, when was held captive and gave them the herb that would reverse the spell, when Odysseus and his mean were turned into pigs. The gods did have some humanistic tendencies but they did do things beyond our understanding and control.