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Hephaestus (Greek: Ἥφαιστος) is the Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire (compare, however, with Hestia), and volcanoes. Hephaestus's Roman counterpart is Vulcan. In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was either the son of Zeus and Hera or he was Hera's parthenogenous child. 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).
As a smithing god, Hephaestus made all the weapons of the gods in Olympus. He served as the blacksmith of the gods, and was worshipped in the manufacturing and industrial centers of Greece, particularly Athens. The cult of Hephaestus was based in Lemnos. Hephaestus's symbols are a smith's hammer, anvil, and a pair of tongs.
Hephaestus had his own palace on Olympus, containing his workshop with anvil and twenty bellows that worked at his bidding. 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. He designed Hermes' winged helmet and sandals, the Aegis breastplate, Aphrodite's famed girdle, Agamemnon's staff of office, Achilles' armor, Diomedes' cuirass, Heracles' bronze clappers, Helios' chariot, the shoulder of Pelops, and Eros's bow and arrows. In later accounts, Hephaestus worked with the help of the Cyclopes-among them his assistants in the forge, Brontes, Steropes and Arges.
Hephaestus built automatons of metal to work for him. This included tripods that walked to and from Mount Olympus. He gave to the blinded Orion his apprentice Cedalion as a guide. In some versions of the myth, Prometheus stole the fire that he gave to man from Hephaestus's forge. Hephaestus also created the gift that the gods gave to man, the woman Pandora and her pithos. Being a skilled blacksmith, Hephaestus created all the thrones in the Palace of Olympus.
The Greek myths and the Homeric poems sanctified in stories that Hephaestus had a special power to produce motion. He made the golden and silver lions and dogs at the entrance of the palace of Alkinoos in such a way that they could bite the invaders. The Greeks maintained in their civilization an animistic idea that statues are in some sense alive. This kind of art and the animistic belief goes back to the Minoan period, when Daedalus, the builder of the labyrinth, made images which moved of their own accord. A statue of the god was somehow the god himself, and the image on a man's tomb indicated somehow his presence
Great video! As far as ancient robotics went Heron of Alexandria wrote about automata. I wonder if the engineers of the ancient world were inspired to create these designs based on Greek mythology. Considering Heron was Hellenic that seems almost certain.
Thanks so much! And cheers for the tip. I will have a look into Heron when I have the chance. Also interesting theory about mythology inspiring real inventions-life imitates art!
Oh wow! What a lovely Tuesday morning surprise...
You're spoiling us. Video very well done. Much credit to giving one of the most underrated Olympians an impressive 14 minutes. Your narration is also such a pleasure to listen to, thank you Lance. Your channel really deserves more! 💯❤️ Can't wait to see you hit a 100K subs...
Aww thank you so much! I was completely entranced with Hephaestus and could have gone even longer. Your kind comment put a smile on my face this morning. Looking forward to seeing the channel grow!
Watching this for a summer-school project. Decided to do Hephaestus since most of the other more well known gods where taken, do not regret one bit. This guy has a really interesting story, might be one of my favorite Greek gods now!
This is my favorite video about this god, this channel needs more attention!
Amazing channel love Greek mythology
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just subscribed ! Very appreciate to have the authentic stories with details. I would love to see more videos. Could you make videos of Kronus era and Titanomachia & Gigantomachia? Thanks !
Welcome and thanks for your comment! These topics will be surely covered in more detail in future videos. Stay tuned.
Great!!!
Oh you mentioned Adrienne Mayor!!! I bought her book on ancient automatons, I still gotta read it though. But I did watch her lecture on it!
Oh, I didn’t know she published a book on it. Sounds like I need to pick that one up! Thanks for the tip.
@@TinyEpics It's called Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines and Ancient Dreams of Technology if you're curious! 😎
@@MorsArt_ That sounds like a great read! Thanks again.
Great work!
Thanks so much! Glad you liked it :-)
Well done. Thank you.
Thanks so much for taking the time to watch!
My perspective on Hephaestus starts with another myth from another culture. The Curse of Adam and Eve is that man must produce and women reproduce. The male energy is fundamentally focused on production, the application of skill, will, knowledge, and time to create wealth and resources, but these can also be taken through war.
Hephaestus can be seen as the god of production married to Aphrodite, who embodies woman as the reproducer, the end goal of Beauty and Eros (union). However, Man the producer is not as glorious as Man the warrior, so we have Ares, the god of war who acquires resources through conquest rather than production. The love triangle of Hephaestus, Aphrodite, and Ares seems to illustrate this. In modern parlance, Ares is the alpha male and Hephaestus is the beta with the woman torn choosing between the two. Does she want the cool bad boy or the dependable producer?
Hephaestus is probably the least popular of the Divines, both in the myths and today. He is the god of the common man, the factory worker, the tradesman, or the downtrodden office slave doing the mundane day in day out labour just to make ends meet. He is portrayed as ugly, dirty, lame, and at times pathetic, and yet he is a key figure in many myths because of what he produces. There are those who take labour for granted but without them there would be no story.
Well said! 👏 Thanks for sharing your thoughtful reflections!
He is the logiman.
Always respect the Logiman.
WOOOOO YEAH HEPHAESTUS
I had so much fun putting this one together! What an interesting god. Sounds like you're a fan too? ;-)
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I woke up this morning thinking about who is the Greek God of my birth month of August? I'm a 20yr Navy Vet. who has travel around the world been to 6 of the 7 continents & 6 of the 7 seas and I don't like the fact that I see young men of ages 6-30 yrs with a lot of let's say feminine qualities. I wanted to find my greek god so I can tell my grandsons the story and tell the story of their greek god of their birth month and have t-shirts made for them to show pride in being young men & to show and let them know it's good to be masculine. Thank you Tiny Epics.
How did hepphesetis cut Zeus head open to give birth to Athena if she was born first?( Hera gave birth to him because she was jealous of Athena’s birth ? But he was the one that deal the head open for Athena to be born ?
Simple. Because there are different versions of the myths composed at different times throughout history. There is no such thing as canon when it comes to mythology.
You are wrong about Athena’s birth
Great. Thanks for the detailed feedback…
Hepaestus is the son of Poseidon and Ceres or Demeter. So is Ares. Poseidon is the Hindu Shiva, and Ceres is Parvati. Ares is Kartikeya and Hepaestus is Ganesh. That is the truth.
Ceres is roman, and there's no version where Hephaestus is son of Poseidon
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Abomination! Is what he is... I am loathe to even utter his name! 😒🙄🤨
Hepaestus is son of Ceres and Poseidon. He is Ganesha from hindus
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