(Greek mythology) the lame god of fire and metalworking in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Vulcan.
1 Then Hephaistos threw into the fires bronze and tin and silver and gold.
2 Along with Hephaistos we built great walls and the homes of the gods themselves.'
3 Vulcan ( Hephaistos ) , the celestial artist, was the son of Jupiter and Juno.
4 Starcad's loathing for a smith recalls the mockery with which the Homeric gods treat Hephaistos .
5 And Thetis besought Hephaistos to make new armour for her son that he might go into the battle.'
6 O land of Lemnos and the all-powerful fire, created by Hephaistos in the great volcano, must I submit to this?
7 Hephaistos might have carved to cut the brine
8 'My name is Periphetes, the son of Hephaistos and Anticleia the mountain nymph.
9 ' Hephaistos was lame and crooked of foot and went limping.
10 Hephaistos , the god of fire, is figured with a hammer and in the form of a lame and ugly blacksmith.
11 'She no sooner finished speaking than Hephaistos went to his work-bench and set his bellows-twentywere there-working
12 ' Hephaistos was ugly, too.
13 'Then all around the rim of the shield Hephaistos , the lame god, set an image of Ocean, whose stream goes round the world.
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