The class of artisans is consecrated to Hephaestus and Athene; the makers of weapons to Ares and Athene: all of whom, remembering that the Gods are their ancestors, should be ashamed to deceive in the practice of their craft.
Hephaestus, the Greek smith god of fire and metalworking, keeps turning up in my research where myth touches craft: in volcanoes, in Egyptian temples and in the golden objects that pass from hand to hand through the old genealogies.
On Mines I list the mines of Hephaestus: the divine blacksmith was believed to keep his forge under Mount Etna, and Homer's Iliad, Book 18, has him working beneath the earth.
On Mount Etna I go further into the myth of the mountain as the forge of Hephaestus, Vulcan to the Romans, where he crafted weapons and armour for the gods.
The Greeks matched Hephaestus with the Egyptian creator god Ptah, as I note on Ptah.
That is why Herodotus calls Sethos a priest of Hephaestus who rose to become king of Egypt, on Account of Sethos.
On Ancient Egypt - 11,800 BCE I quote Herodotus counting 341 generations from Menes to this priest of Hephaestus, and on Account of Menes Menes is credited with building the temple of Hephaestus, that is Ptah, at Memphis.
On The semi-mythical aspect of Manetho's king list Ptah, equated with Hephaestus, stands first among the god kings, with a span of 9,000 years.
Now Europa’s basket was of gold, an admirable thing, a great marvel and a great work of Hephaestus, given of him unto Libya the day the Earth-Shaker took her to his bed, and given of Libya unto the fair beauteous Telephassa because she was one of her own blood; and so the virgin Europa came to possess the renownèd gift, being Telephassa was her mother.
On Colonization I compare the artisans among the Anunnaki with Kothar-wa-Khasis, a Canaanite god of craftsmanship who resembles Hephaestus.
For every page I tagged with Hephaestus, see the Hephaestus tag archive.
Enchanted dogs made by the god Hephaestus guard its grounds.
In Book 18 of the Iliad, Thetis visits Hephaestus, the smith god, in his bronze house.
A few lines later, at Iliad 18.417 to 420, Hephaestus walks to the door with his helpers.
So the Phaeacian island and Hephaestus's workshop belong to one world of made, moving things.
For example, Thetis helps Zeus and Hephaestus and provides magical items or advice to mortals like Achilles.
A great part of huge earth was scorched by the terrible vapour and melted as tin melts when heated by men’s art in channeled crucibles; or as iron, which is hardest of all things, is softened by glowing fire in mountain glens and melts in the divine earth through the strength of Hephaestus.
Hephaestus: God of blacksmithing and fire, sometimes said to be a child of Zeus and Hera (or only Hera, depending on the myth).
The basket is a work of Hephaestus.
Hephaestus gives it to Libya on the day Poseidon takes Libya to his bed.
Now Europa’s basket was of gold, an admirable thing, a great marvel and a great work of Hephaestus, given of him unto Libya the day the Earth-Shaker took her to his bed, and given of Libya unto the fair beauteous Telephassa because she was one of her own blood; and so the virgin Europa came to possess the renownèd gift, being Telephassa was her mother.
Hephaestus made it.
For example Poseidon was allotted Atlantis, while Athena and Hephaestus were given Athens.
Hephaestus is the Greek god of fire, smiths and metalwork.
but silver-footed Thetis came unto the house of Hephaestus, imperishable, decked with stars, preeminent among the houses of immortals, wrought all of bronze, that the crook-foot god himself had built him.
In Homer, Hephaestus works at his bellows in a bronze house on Olympus.
pressed down beneath the roots of Aetna ; while on the topmost summit Hephaestus sits and hammers the molten ore.
Aeschylus places Hephaestus at work on the top of Etna.
In Greek mythology, Mount Etna was believed to be the forge of Hephaestus (known as Vulcan in Roman mythology), the god of fire and blacksmithing.
According to the myth, Hephaestus had his workshop beneath the mountain, where he crafted weapons and armor for the gods.
The eruptions of Etna were thought to be the result of Hephaestus working at his forge, with the sparks and flames seen as evidence of his divine craftsmanship.
The ancient inhabitants of Sicily worshiped various deities associated with the volcano, including Hephaestus and the local god Adranus.
The idea of Mount Etna as the forge of Hephaestus has also persisted through the ages, influencing how people perceive the mountain’s eruptions.
The twelve Olympians were Zeus (king of the gods), Hera (queen of the gods), Poseidon (god of the sea), Demeter (goddess of the harvest), Athena (goddess of wisdom and war), Apollo (god of the sun and arts), Artemis (goddess of the hunt), Ares (god of war), Aphrodite (goddess of love and beauty), Hephaestus (god of fire and metalworking), Hermes (messenger of the gods) and Hestia (goddess of the hearth).
Ptah (Hephaestus): Considered one of the creator gods, Ptah was worshipped as the god of craftsmen and architects.
Herodotus indeed mentions a timeline spanning from Menes, the first king of Egypt, to Sethos, a priest of Hephaestus who became king.
Menes is credited with constructing the temple of Hephaestus (Ptah) in Memphis, reflecting his contributions to religious and architectural development.
And after he had dammed off the river from the town, he first founded in the place where it used to run, and which is now the lake of Moeris, the temple of Hephaestus" .
Sethos, according to Herodotus, was a priest of Hephaestus (the Greek name for the Egyptian god Ptah) who rose to become the king of Egypt.
The Greeks associated Ptah with their god Hephaestus, the god of fire and metalworking.
Sethos was originally a priest of Hephaestus.
"There was a priest of Hephaestus named Sethos who obtained the kingdom".
He prayed earnestly to Hephaestus in a temple, seeking the god's aid against the Assyrian invasion.
"After this the Egyptian king, returning home in triumph, raised in the temple of Hephaestus a statue of himself, holding in his hand a mouse, and bearing the following inscription: 'Look on me and learn to reverence the gods".
"They say that from Menes to this priest of Hephaestus, whose name was Sethos, was a period of 341 generations" (Histories, Book 2, 2.142).
"The priest of Hephaestus…says that they were once independent" (Histories, Book 2, 2.147).
A priest of Hephaestus who became king.
"Sethos, a priest of Hephaestus" (Histories, Book 2, 2.141).
A priest of Hephaestus who later became king.
"Sethos, a priest of Hephaestus" (Histories, Book 2, 2.141).
Artisans and Craftsmen could be compared to Kothar-wa-Khasis, though not an Anunnaki but a Canaanite deity of craftsmanship, similar in characteristics to the Greek god Hephaestus.
For instance, the Greeks associated Ptah with their god Hephaestus, the god of fire and metalworking.