Frazer aims this address at Hermes, and the served chapter delivers the whole arc. The newborn slips his swaddling-bands, makes for Pieria, and "stole the kine which Apollo was herding" — then shoes the cattle to spoil the tracks [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. X]. Apollo, "Having discovered the thief by divination", hauls the infant to Zeus; Hermes denies everything, is disbelieved, restores the herd — and when Apollo hears the lyre strung from the stolen beasts, "he gave the kine in exchange for it" [ibid.]. Frazer's note recalls that "The theft of cattle by the infant Hermes" filled a satyr-play of Sophocles, the Ichneutae [ibid., editor's note]. The close is promotion, not penalty: Zeus "appointed him herald to himself and to the infernal gods" [ibid.]. The candidate lane's one survivor is only adjacent: Maui — a demi-god, not a god — who in the Savage Island telling saw "his opportunity to steal the secret of fire" while his father, catching "a glimpse of the young thief", chased him up through the burning underworld [Legends of Maui and Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes, V]. Three Arabian Nights candidates were keyword noise — pious formulas about God, no thieving god anywhere.