He was considered the inventor of scales, and moreover he took dreams to sleepers, a sort of secret messages sent by Zeus. He was depicted as an agile and slender young boy, sometimes he had a lamb on his shoulders, other times, instead, he wore a winged hat (petasus), winged sandals, and he had the caduceus in his hands, a stick with two twisted snakes, symbol of peace. Moreover he took the dead into the Underworld and committed them to Charon who transported them beyond the infernal river.
