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Hephaestus

Hephaestus meaning

The god of fire, smithwork, metallurgy, volcanoes, and artisans, who served as blacksmith of the gods. His Roman counterpart is Vulcan.

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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.

In the latter account, Hephaestus is there represented as older than Athena, so the mythology of Hephaestus is inconsistent in this respect.

A combination of various AI programs, including APOLLO and a reformed HEPHAESTUS, could also be key to matching the power of Nemesis.

Following the Extinction Signal sent by Nemesis, HEPHAESTUS goes rogue and acts with malevolence, declares human beings to be a threat to the machine life healing Earth.

The ultimate Warforged Assault Rifle, forged by the hands of Hephaestus himself.

In the regular DC Universe, the God Killer was a blade forged by the Greek god Hephaestus.

One of these locked planets is Hephaestus, the one located closest to the sun on the map.

After Hephaestus does so, Athena dresses her in a silvery gown, an embroidered veil, garlands and an ornate crown of silver.

Another story mentioned that he held onto a golden dog forged by Hephaestus and stolen by Tantalus' friend Pandareus.

A temple of Hephaestus also stood on Pharos at the head of the mole.

At the wedding Chiron gave Peleus an ashen spear that had been polished by Athene and had a blade forged by Hephaestus.

Being a skilled blacksmith, Hephaestus created all the thrones in the Palace of Olympus.

Contriving to catch the illicit couple in the act, Hephaestus fashioned a finely-knitted and nearly invisible net with which to snare them.

Dictys Cretensis iv. 4. Like Achilles, he wore armour made by Hephaestus.

Fall from Olympus In one branch of Greek mythology, Hera ejected Hephaestus from the heavens because he was "shrivelled of foot".

Flacc. ii. 96.) The epithets and surnames by which Hephaestus is known by the poets generally allude to his skill in the plastic arts or to his figure or lameness.

He commands Hephaestus to mold from earth the first woman, a "beautiful evil" whose descendants would torment the human race.

Helios discovered the two and alerted Hephaestus.

Hephaestus built automatons of metal to work for him.

Hephaestus gained revenge against Hera for rejecting him by making her a magical golden throne, which, when she sat on it, did not allow her to stand up.