Hephaestus is probably associated with the Linear B (Mycenaean Greek) inscription ????????????????????, A-pa-i-ti-jo, found at Knossos. The inscription indirectly attests his worship at that time because it is believed that it reads the 查看更多內容

Craft of Hephaestus
Hephaestus had his own palace on Olympus, containing his workshop with anvil and twenty 查看更多內容

Parallels in other mythological systems for Hephaestus's symbolism include:
• The Ugarit craftsman-god Kothar-wa-Khasis, who is identified from afar by his distinctive walk – possibly suggesting that he limps.
• As Herodotus was given to understand, the 查看更多內容

Hephaestus is given many epithets. The meaning of each epithet is:
• Amphigyḗeis often translated as "the lame one"; literally "lame on both sides" vel sim. (Ἀμφιγυήεις)
• Kyllopodíōn "club-footed" or "of dragging feet" (Κυλλοποδίων) 查看更多內容

Hephaestus was sometimes portrayed as a vigorous man with a beard and was characterized by his hammer or some other crafting … 查看更多內容

Solinus wrote that the Lycians dedicated a city to Hephaestus and called it Hephaestia. The Hephaestia in Lemnos was named after the god. In addition, the whole island of … 查看更多內容

Pliny the Elder wrote that at Corycus there was a stone which was called Hephaestitis or Hephaestus stone. According to Pliny, the stone was … 查看更多內容