Hephaistos

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1. Hephaistos - Noun

2. Hephaistos - Proper noun

Meaning

(Greek mythology) the lame god of fire and metalworking in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Vulcan

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Hephaistos bears in Homer the double stamp of a Nature-Power, representing the element of fire, and of an anthropomorphic deity who is the god of art at a period when the only fine art known was in works of metal produced by the aid of fire. William Ewart Gladstone

In vase paintings, Hephaestus is usually shown lame and bent over his anvil, hard at work on a metal creation, and sometimes with his feet back-to-front: Hephaistos amphigyēeis. Source: Internet

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