Festus Avienus mentions vast quantities of seaweed in the ocean west of the Pillars of Hercules:-- Exsuperat autem gurgitem fucus frequens Atque impeditur æstus ex uligine.
He adds that the appearance of Prometheus and Hephæstus in later accounts would only strengthen his interpretation, the association of these divine artists with the goddess of wisdom and of the arts of life.
And Hephæstus seems in doubt by what gift he should win the favor of the goddess for his bait is spent since her arms have grown with her.
In Lucian's "Dialogues of the Gods" we find the following scene which gives an amusing account of the story in the words of Hephæstus and Zeus.
He has mentioned it only twice this morning, and I have set Hephæstus to work to make him another, of yew-tree wood.
One side of the larger bell bears an inscription in Latin, very much abbreviated, as follows: Stus Ds Stus Ftis Stus Immortlis Micerere Nobis.
While Hephæstus was ministering to them the festal cup, they laughed ungovernably at his personal deformity[639].
To understand the agency of Hephæstus at the birth of Athena, we must again return to the founding of the arts on agriculture by the hand.
To him Hephæstus brought a trident, hoping that the gift would induce him to offer the young exile his assistance in making peace with the Queen.
Looking around the court, the eyes of Hephæstus rested at last on Venus--a Princess so beautiful that she was supposed to have been made of sea-foam.
Hic victor cæstus artemque repono=--Here victorious I lay aside my cestus and my net.
The probability is that the latter building was a temple in honour of Hephæstus or of Hephæstus and Athena.
Rhytium also together with Phæstus belongs to the Gortynians, “both Phæstus and Rhytium.
Next to Geræstus is Eretria, which, after Chalcis, is the largest city in Eubœa.
No doubt Agni has his representatives in the creeds of other Aryan peoples, in the Hephæstus of the Greeks, or in the Vulcan of the Romans; probably in the Loki of the Scandinavians.
Hephæstus making youths with golden cutlasses upon the shield of Achilles.
To punish the former he commanded Hephæstus (Vulcan) to mould a beautiful woman out of clay, and determined that through her instrumentality trouble and misery should be brought into the world.
Hephæstus thus revenged himself on his mother for the cruelty she had always displayed towards him, on account of his want of comeliness and grace.
It is said that the first work of Hephæstus was a most ingenious throne of gold, with secret springs, which he presented to Hera.
Hephæstus was a whole day falling from Olympus to the earth, where he at length alighted on the island of Lemnos.
At the request of the goddess Thetis, Hephæstus forged for him a new suit of armour, which far surpassed in magnificence that of all the other heroes.
But it was unanimously agreed that the beautiful suit of armour made by Hephæstus should be awarded to him who had contributed the most to the {299} rescue of the body from the hands of the enemy.
Her son Hephæstus tried to release his mother from her humiliating position, for which Zeus threw him out of heaven, and his leg was broken by the fall.
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