Hephaestus Bundle

“Hephaestus” is the Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, fire and volcanoes.  Hephaestus was the son of Hera and Zeus.  Hera conceived and gave birth to Hephaestus, the only deformed god out of the 12 Olympians.  Disappointed that her child is nowhere near as beautiful as Zeus’ daughter, Athena, the goddess of wisdom, she threw Hephaestus off Mount Olympus. Nymphs raised him, instead, and he learned craftsmanship, metal working.     Hephaestus was the “God of Fire”.  Fire was called the breath of Hephaestus and the name of the god was synonymous with fire.  Hephaestus’s symbols are a smith’s hammer, anvil and a pair of tongs.   Hephaestus was a very peaceful and generally benevolent deity.  He highly valued and taught the virtues of hard labor, honesty and dependability.  He was described as lame and limping, usually depicted in art as hunched, deformed and unattractive.     A marriage was arranged by Zeus between Aphrodite and Hephaestus.  Zeus did it mainly