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In Greek mythology, Hephaestus is a god of blacksmiths and fire and is sometimes referred to as “the celestial artificer.” He was associated with sculptors, carpenters, and metalworkers as well and as shown in the name of his Roman opponent Vulcan, with volcanoes.
Even though Hephaestus was a holy and a lame god, being a victim of his own mother, he was the husband of Aphrodite herself. He was the son of Zeus and Hera but his father threw him down from Olympus for intervening on behalf of his mother during a quarrel.
There is also a claim that Hephaestus is solely the child of Hera and that she gave birth to him by parthenogenesis to take revenge on her husband who had done the same with Athena but after giving birth and finding his deformity, she threw him out of disgust and shame.
Hephaestus who became hurt from the fall, was rescued by Thetis and Eurynome, who sheltered him in a cave under the ocean for nine years. He got his revenge later on his mother when he made a golden stool, presented it to her and she accepted it right away.
However when she sat on it, she became tied up by delicately fashioned cords which were invisible to the eyes of anyone but the creator’s. The gods pleaded with Hephaestus, promising him a place on Olympus in return but he refused until Dionysus got him drunk.
He is one of the most extraordinary member of the Olympian Pantheon and had bearded, stocky, lame and ugly features. Be does not possess the physical flawlessness of the other gods and neither did he stimulate befitting respect.
He was sometimes portrayed with an oval cap and almost always with a hammer and an anvil. His epithets are more ridiculing than flattering and was referred to as “the lame one” and “the halting”. He was sometimes called a “shrewd” and his workshop was located under Mount Aetna.
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