Hephaestus
Family: Gods · Role: god · First appears: The Astronomy
Hera casts Hephaestus into the sea, where Thetis, daughter of Nereus, takes him in and cares for him with her sisters. Later, he gives his servant Cedalion to guide a beggar who comes to Lemnos, and works with Athena to teach men crafts, helping them live peacefully in their own houses. Hephaestus also makes something for his father Zeus and gives it to him.
Relationship record
Life events
- Hera casts Hephaestus out, and he falls into the sea.(Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1)
- With: Hera
- “whom I myself took in my hands and cast out so that he fell in the great sea.”
- Thetis, daughter of Nereus, takes in and cares for Hephaestus.(Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1 · 📍 the great sea)
- Hephaestus and Athene taught men crafts, enabling them to live peacefully in their own houses.(Homeric Hymn XX · To Hephaestus)
- With: Athena men
- “With bright-eyed Athene he taught men glorious gifts throughout the world,—men who before used to dwell in caves in the mountains like wild beasts. But now that they have learned crafts through Hephaestus the famed worker, easily they live a peaceful life in their own houses the whole year round.”
The Astronomy
- servant: Cedalion “Then he came to Lemnos as a beggar and there met Hephaestus who took pity on him and gave him Cedalion his own servant to guide him.”
Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1
- parent: Hera “But my son Hephaestus whom I bare was weakly among all the blessed gods and shrivelled of foot, a shame and disgrace to me in heaven, whom I myself took in my hands and cast out so that he fell in the great sea.”
Homeric Hymn XX · To Hephaestus
- with Athena (They are jointly described as teaching crafts to men.) “With bright-eyed Athene he taught men glorious gifts throughout the world,—men who before used to dwell in caves in the mountains like wild beasts.”
The Little Iliad
- parent: Zeus “Hephaestus wrought it and gave it to his father Zeus”
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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.