He was the son of Zeus and Hera, and husband of He designed Hermes' winged helmet and sandals. Children: Aphrodite had many children, however many were unheard of. Hephaestus created the woman, Pandora, as a gift to man at the request of Zeus. The myth behind it is that Hera gave birth to him without Zeus or male fertilizer at all. Hephaestus had three siblings; Eilithyia, the Goddess of childbirth, Hebe, the Goddess of youth and Ares, the God of War. Hera was delighted with this gift but as soon as she sat on it her weight triggered hidden springs and metal bands that sprung forth to hold her fast. When Hera found that he was disfigured, she threw him off Hephaistos carefully shut this precious coal in a clamshell and took it back to his underwater grotto and made a fire with it. His Roman equivalent was Vulcan. Hephaestus is the son of Zeus and Hera. Hera was so horrified that she hurled the tiny baby off the top of Mount Olympus. Hephaestus or Hephaistos was the Greek deity of metalworking, smithing, sculpture, masonry, fire and volcanoes. Unlike the rest of his siblings, Hephaestus was the ugliest. He was represented in the temple of Athena Chalcioecus (Athena of the Bronze House)at Sparta, in the act of delivering his mother; on the chest of Kypselos, giving Achilles's armour to Thetis; and at Athens there was the famous statue of Hephaistos by Alcamenes, in which his lameness was only subtly portrayed. He served as the blacksmith of the gods, and was worshipped in the manufacturing and industrial centres of Greece, particularly Athens. Even though they had a rocky relationship due to Aphrodite’s many love affairs, they still had several children who had important roles. He even made slave-girls of gold to wait on him and do his bidding. Hephaistos and Aphrodite had an arranged marriage, and Aphrodite, disliking the idea of being Hephaistos discovers Aphrodite's promiscuity through However, the gods laughed at the sight of these naked lovers, and The Thebans told that the union of Ares and Aphrodite produced Hephaistos was somehow connected with the archaic, pre-Greek Phrygian and Thracian mystery cult of the Kabeiroi, who were also called the Hephaistoi, "the Hephaistos-men," in Lemnos. Along with Athena, Hephaestus is an important god for city dwellers. One of the three Lemnian tribes also called themselves Hephaestion and claimed direct descent from the god. Hephaestus (/ h ɪ ˈ f iː s t ə s, h ɪ ˈ f ɛ s t ə s /; eight spellings; Greek: Ἥφαιστος Hēphaistos) is the Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire (compare, however, with Hestia), and volcanoes. Hephaestus' mother was Hera, and his father was Zeus.
Hephaestus, Ares, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Hermes, Dionysus and Persephone were all her half siblings, and she didn’t have any direct siblings. He was lame at birth, and in some stories his face was deformed or he had a clubfoot, thus causing him to be cast out of Mount. Hephaestus created woman’s pithos, which was a large storage container. Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Athena, Ares, and Persephone were his most known siblings but he had much more because of Zeus' many other relationships with other mortal women and goddesses. In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the twelve Olympians are the major deities of the Greek pantheon, commonly considered to be Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus. Hephaestus is the name of the Greek god of volcanoes and a craftsman and blacksmith associated with metalworking and stone masonry.
The Greeks frequently placed small dwarf-like statues of Hephaistos near their hearths, and these figures are the oldest of all his representations. Hephaestus was married to Aphrodite. One day, Thetis left her underwater grotto to attend a dinner party on Mount Olympus wearing a beautiful necklace of silver and sapphires, which Hephaistos had made for her. Just who might be called an Olympian is not entirely clear.
Unfortunately, one of his legs broke as he hit the water, and never developed properly. During the best period of Grecian art he was represented as a vigorous man with a beard, and is characterised by his hammer or some other crafting tool, his oval cap, and the According to most versions, Hephaistos's consort is In Athens, there is a Temple of Hephaistos, the Hephaesteum (miscalled the "Theseum") near the agora. By Peter Paul Rubens.Gallery of Symbols of Hephaistos & Things Sacred to Hephaistos Of all the gods on Olympus, he is arguably the most human, having suffered abuse by the other gods, who by contrast are aloof, perfect, and remote from the frailties of men.Hephaestus is also connected to humanity by his chosen profession, sculptor, and … is the Greek lame Olympian God of the Forge, fire, volcanoes, metals, blacksmiths, metallurgy, stone masonry, artisans, sculptures and craftsmanship.
The cult of Hephaestus was based in Lemnos. 360–361, lists 54 Greek (and Roman) gods, including the thirteen Olympians mentioned above, who have been identified as members of one or more cultic groupings of twelve gods. Hera admired the necklace and asked her where she could get one. Hephaestus ( Hephaistos) . Family.
Zeus pleaded with Hephaistos to dislodge Hera, but he steadfastly refused. The more she shrieked and struggled the more firmly the mechanical throne gripped her; the chair was a cleverly designed trap.