In Hesiod’s Pandora story, Hermes escorted Pandora to humanity. Zeus ordered Hermes, the messenger god, to take Pandora to Epimetheus after the other gods had helped create and equip her.
Hermes has a fitting role because he connects divine and mortal worlds. In Works and Days, Pandora is presented as part of Zeus’s response to Prometheus’s theft of fire. Epimetheus accepts her despite Prometheus’s warning not to receive gifts from Zeus, and the later opening of the jar brings suffering to humans.
Hermes is sometimes confused with the gods who supplied Pandora’s other qualities. Athena taught or gave her needlework, Aphrodite gave charm, and the Graces and other divine figures contributed adornment. Hesiod’s account is a literary myth rather than a single standardized religious scene, so later retellings rearrange some details.