In Hesiod’s Works and Days, Hermes gives Pandora deceptive speech. The messenger god is instructed to provide her with a mind that can mislead and language suited to persuasion and concealment.
Pandora is assembled through several divine contributions rather than created with a single trait. Hephaestus fashions her, Athena teaches useful crafts, Aphrodite gives her beauty, and other gods provide additional qualities. Hermes’s contribution fits his broader mythological associations with communication, cleverness, trade, and trickery.
Later popular summaries often say simply that the gods gave Pandora her gifts, without identifying each contributor. That can obscure why Hermes appears in the story. The detail also connects Pandora’s tale with Hesiod’s wider explanation of why human life contains toil, danger, and social deception.