He gave to the blinded Orion his apprentice Cedalion as a guide. This included tripods that walked to and from Mount Olympus. Hephaestus built automatons of metal to work for him. In later accounts, Hephaestus worked with the help of the Cyclopes-among them his assistants in the forge, Brontes, Steropes and Arges. He designed Hermes' winged helmet and sandals, the Aegis breastplate, Aphrodite's famed girdle, Agamemnon's staff of office, Achilles' armour, Diomedes' cuirass, Heracles' bronze clappers, Helios' chariot, the shoulder of Pelops, and Eros's bow and arrows.

Hephaestus crafted much of the magnificent equipment of the gods, and almost any finely wrought metalwork imbued with powers that appears in Greek myth is said to have been forged by Hephaestus. Hephaestus had his own palace on Olympus, containing his workshop with anvil and twenty bellows that worked at his bidding. Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus by Anthony van Dyck (1630-1632) Agaklytos 'very famous, glorious' (Αγακλυτος).Aitnaîos 'Aetnaean' ( Αἰτναῖος), owing to his workshop being supposedly located below Mount Aetna.Polýmētis 'shrewd, crafty' or 'of many devices' ( Πολύμητις).Amphigýeis often translated as 'the lame one' literally 'lame on both sides' vel sim.The Greek theonym Hēphaistos is most likely of Pre-Greek origin, as the form without -i- ( Attic Hēphastos) shows a typical Pre-Greek variation and points to an original s y. The inscription indirectly attests his worship at that time because it is believed that it reads the theophoric name (H)āpʰaistios, or Hāphaistion. Hephaestus is probably associated with the Linear B ( Mycenaean Greek) inscription 𐀀𐀞𐀂𐀴𐀍, A-pa-i-ti-jo, found at Knossos. Hephaestus's symbols are a smith's hammer, anvil, and a pair of tongs. The cult of Hephaestus was based in Lemnos. He served as the blacksmith of the gods, and was worshipped in the manufacturing and industrial centres of Greece, particularly Athens. Īs a smithing god, Hephaestus made all the weapons of the gods in Olympus. He was cast off Mount Olympus by his mother Hera because of his lameness, the result of a congenital impairment or in another account, by Zeus for protecting Hera from his advances (in which case his lameness would have been the result of his fall rather than the reason for it). In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was either the son of Zeus and Hera or he was Hera's parthenogenous child. Hephaestus's Roman counterpart is Vulcan. Hḗphaistos) is the Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire (compare, however, with Hestia), and volcanoes. Hephaestus ( / h ɪ ˈ f iː s t ə s, h ɪ ˈ f ɛ s t ə s/ eight spellings Greek: Ἥφαιστος, translit.

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