Hephaestus is the Greek God of Fire and Volcanoes.
Hephaestus has eight spellings; Greek:, translit.The god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors and metallurgy is Hphaistos.The Roman counterpart to Hephaestus is called Vulcan.In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was either the son of Zeus or Hera.He was cast off Mount Olympus by his mother because of his deformity or by Zeus for protecting Hera from his advances.It was 3, 4 and 5.
The weapons of the gods were made by Hephaestus.He was worshiped in Athens as the blacksmith of the gods.Lemnos was the location of the cult of Hephaestus.Hephaestus had a smith's hammer, anvil, and a pair of tongs.
Hephaestus is thought to be associated with the Linear B inscription.The inscription is believed to be a reference to his worship at that time.The form without -i- (Attic Hphastos) shows a typical Pre-Greek variation and points to an original sy.[6]
Hephaestus had a palace with anvil and bellows that worked for him.Hephaestus is said to have created the magnificent equipment of the gods, and almost any finely wrought metalwork that appears in Greek myth has been forged by him.Agamemnon's staff of office, Heracles' bronze clappers, the shoulder of the chariot, and the winged helmet and sandals were all designed by him.In later accounts, Hephaestus worked with the help of the Cyclopes, among them his assistants in the forge.It was 13 and 14.
Hephaestus wanted metal to work for him.The tripods walked to and from Mount Olympus.He gave Cedalion to be a guide.Prometheus stole the fire from Hephaestus's forge in some versions of the myth.The gift that the gods gave to man was created by Hephaestus.The thrones were created by Hephaestus, a skilled blacksmith.It was [13].
The Greek myths and Homeric poems are said to have power to produce motion.The lions and dogs were made to bite the invaders at the entrance of the palace of Alkinoos.The Greeks believed that statues are alive and well.This kind of art and animistic belief goes back to the Minoan period, when the builder of the labyrinth, Daedalus, made images which moved of their own accord.There was a statue of the god and an image on a man's tomb that indicated his presence.[19]
Hephaestus was present at the birth of Athena and used an axe to free her from Zeus.The mythology of Hephaestus is not consistent due to the fact that he is older than Athena.
Hera ejected Hephaestus from the heavens because he was "shrivelled of foot".He was raised by Thetis and the Oceanid Eurynome after falling into the ocean.[5]
Hephaestus was flung down from the heavens by Zeus as he tried to save his mother.He was taken care of and taught to be a master craftsman by the Sintians, who were native to the island of Lemnos.Homer makes him weak from his birth and later writers describe his lameness as the result of his second fall.
Hephaestus gained revenge against Hera by making her a golden throne, which she sat on, and did not allow her to stand up.The other gods begged Hephaestus to let her go, but he refused, saying "I have no mother".[21]
Dionysus took the subdued smith back to Olympus on the back of a mule accompanied by revelers, a scene that sometimes appears on painted pottery of Attica and Corinth.The mule show in the painted scenes was a part of the dithyrambic celebrations that preceded the satyr plays of fifth century Athens.[25][26]
The return of Hephaestus may have introduced the theme to Etruria.Dionysus held the bridle and carried Hephaestus' tools in the vase-painters' portrayal of the procession.
The temple of Dionysus in Athens was built in the 5th century but may have been decorated before the 2nd century.He said that Pausanias saw it.
There are paintings of Dionysus and Hephaestus.Hephaestus was thrown down by Hera when he was a baby.He gave a golden chair as a revenge gift.Dionysus brought Hera to heaven after Hephaestus refused to listen to any other gods except him.
Aphrodite is unfaithful to Hephaestus with a number of gods and mortals, including Ares.The consort of Hephaestus is a lesser Aphrodite, as Hesiod calls her, the youngest of the Graces.[29]
The Hephaesteum is located near the agora in Athens.According to an Athenian founding myth, the city's patron goddess refused a union with Hephaestus.According to an archaic legend, Hephaestus tried to rape Athena, but she pushed him away, causing him to ejaculate on her thigh.She wiped the semen off using a tuft of wool, which she tossed into the dust, causing her to give birth to her own child.The Roman mythographer Hyginus records a story in which Hephaestus demanded that Zeus let him marry Athena since he was the one who had smashed open Zeus's skull and allowed her to be born.When Hephaestus was about to get married, he vanished from the bridal bed, causing him to have sex on the floor.[31][33]
The sea nymph Cabeiro was the consort of Hephaestus and the father of two gods.His sons were gods of Sicilian geysers called Palici, and his consort was a nymph.Hephaestus was thought to be the father of the Palici.
Several children were fathered by Hephaestus.One of the children was a criminal.
The Romans claim that their equivalent god, Vulcan, has produced the following children.
Aphrodite had an affair with Ares, the god of war.Hephaestus discovered Aphrodite's affair through the all-seeing Sun, and planned a trap during one of their trysts.Hephaestus dragged Aphrodite and Ares to Mount Olympus so he could shame them in front of the other gods.
The gods were amused by the sight of the naked lovers, so they persuaded Hephaestus to free them in exchange for a guarantee that Ares would pay the adulterer's fine.According to The Odyssey, Hephaestus would return Aphrodite to her father and demand her bride price.The Emily Wilson translation shows Hephaestus trying to get Zeus to give back the "price" he paid for his daughter, but the reader assumes Zeus didn't do that.Some versions of the myth state that Zeus did not return the dowry, and that Aphrodite simply returned to her husband's good graces.[39]
Thebans said that the union of Ares and Aphrodite produced Harmonia.There was no issue with the union of Hephaestus and Aphrodite if Virgil was serious.The authors said that he was passed off to Hephaestus as his own son.
The Hephaistoi, also known as the Hephaestus-men, were a pre-Greek cult in Lemnos.One of the Lemnian tribes claimed to be descended from the god.
Hephaestus is to the male gods for he gives skill to mortal artists and was also thought to have taught men the arts.He was thought to be inferior to the character of Athena.There were temples and festivals in Athens.The spot on which Hephaestus had fallen was believed to have great healing powers, and Lemnian earth was said to cure madness, bites of snakes and haemorrhage.[42]
He gave his mother's armour to Thetis and gave it to Cypselus in the temple of the Bronze House at Sparta.He had almost no cults except in Athens and was seen as a more accessible god to the city which shared her name.The oldest of all his representations are the small dwarf-like statues of Hephaestus placed near their hearths by the Greeks.During the best period of Grecian art he was depicted as a vigorous man with a beard, with his hammer, cap, and chiton.
The "soulmate" of Hephaestus is thought to be Athena.At the moment of climax she pushes him aside and his semen falls to the earth.[50]
His origin myth was that of a "daemon of fire coming up from the earth" and that he was also associated with gas, which takes fire and burns and is considered by many people to be divine.[47]
The volcano gods Adranus and Vulcanus of the Lipari islands were associated with Hephaestus.Apollonius of Tyana is said to have said, "there are many other mountains all over the earth that are on fire, and yet we should never be done with it if we assigned to them giants and gods like Hephaestus".[51]
Hephaestus uses fire to dry the waters of the Scamandrus river in order to force the deity who was attacking him to retreat.
Hephaestus, who sided with the Greeks, was also worshiped by the Trojans and saved one of their men from being killed.The island of Lemnos was Hephaestus' favourite place in the mortal world, but he also frequented other volcanic islands.56, 57,58,59,60,61
The names and epithets of Hephaestus are used by the poets to refer to his skills in plastic arts or his figure.The oldest representations of Hephaestus are the small dwarf-like statues that the Greeks placed near their fireplaces.62, 63, and 64 were used.
Hephaestus was sometimes portrayed as a vigorous man with a beard and was also characterized by his hammer or some other crafting tool.
Hephaestus is referred to as "lame", "chlos" and "halting" in mythology.He was depicted with crippled feet from birth or as a result of his fall from Olympus.In vase paintings, Hephaestus is usually shown bent over his anvil, hard at work on a metal creation, and sometimes with his feet back-to-front.He used a stick to walk.The Palaimonius is the son of Hephaestus.A bronze-smith was not good.[67]
The Cabeiri on the island of Samothrace were identified with the crab by the lexicographer Hesychius.The word "crab-footed" means "lame".The Cabeiri were also bad.
Hephaestus built himself a "wheeled chair" or chariot which he used to demonstrate his skills to the other gods.Hephaestus built twenty bronze wheeled tripods in order to assist him in moving around.70
Hephaestus's appearance is taken by some to represent peripheral neuropathy and skin cancer caused by arsenicosis.During periods of tin scarcity, Bronze Age smiths added arsenic to copper to make harder arsenical bronze.Many Bronze Age smiths would have suffered from chronic arsenic poisoning.The mythic image of the smith is widespread.The connection is from ancient folk memory as Hephaestus was not a bronze-age smith.72
The city of Hephaestia was dedicated by the Lycians, according to Solinus.The Hephaestia in Lemnos was named after the god.The island of Lemnos was sacred to Hephaestus.[78]