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    This purveyor of costly scarves and luxury goods in saddle stitching is named after a Greek god who killed a friend who was later turned into a costly spice. Who was this friend?

    Question #102256. Asked by edmund80. (Jan 11 09 8:27 PM)


    pollucci19

    		Hermes

    Fashion House
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herm%C3%A8s

    Greek God
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes

    The friend was Crocus and the spice is saffron.

    http://italianfood.about.com/library/weekly/aa112002.htm

    Jan 11 09, 8:38 PM
    roshanarose

    		Greetings edmund80.

    Your question has revealed an aspect of Greek mythology I didn't know about.

    Evidently Hermes http://www.theoi.com/olympios/hermes.html had a mortal lover called Krokos http://www.paghat.com/saffronmyth.html whom as you say Hermes accidentally killed.

    It so happens that Hermes the French designer http://www.wikipedia.com markets a bag called the Birkin Krokos.

    So the friend of Hermes was Krokos giving the name to our beautiful flower the Crocus from which Saffron is harvested.

    Jan 11 09, 8:53 PM
    edmund80

    		Excellent! Hermes was apparently one busy god, judging from the list of his consorts (Crocus/Krokos just being one of them) and children.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes#List_of_Hermes.27_consorts_and_children

    Jan 12 09, 1:29 AM

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