In Hesiod’s Pandora story, Hermes leads Pandora to humanity. Zeus orders Hermes to bring Pandora to Epimetheus after the gods have prepared her.
Hermes is the Greek god associated with messages, travel, boundaries, and transitions, so his role as the escort who delivers Pandora fits his wider mythological functions. Hesiod describes Hermes giving Pandora a deceptive mind and a guileful character before taking her to Epimetheus.
Hermes is not the god who makes Pandora’s physical form. Hephaestus is instructed to shape her from earth, while other gods contribute clothing, adornment, and qualities. This division of roles is easy to blur in modern summaries that compress the creation scene into a single act by “the gods.”
The scene appears in Hesiod’s Works and Days, where Pandora’s arrival forms part of Zeus’s response to Prometheus’s theft of fire. The later phrase “Pandora’s box” comes from a different translation tradition.