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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️

"[#Ares] took her hand and spoke thus to her: ‘Come, my darling; let us go to bed and take our delight together. #Hephaistos is no longer here; by now, I think, he has made his way to Lemnos, to visit the uncouth-spoken Sintians.’
So he spoke, and sleep with him was a welcome thought to her."
Homer, Odyssey 8. 267

🏛 #Mars and #Venus, 45–79 CE #Fresco, #Pompeii

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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka aka Tuesday 🗡️

"#Ares, god of the golden reins, was no blind watcher. Once he had seen #Hephaistos go, he himself approached the great craftman's dwelling, pining for love of Kytherea [#Aphrodite]."
Homer, Odyssey 8. 267 ff

🏛 #Mars and #Venus fresco from #Pompeii, House of the Citharist

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A late #MythologyMonday thread on #Disability in #GreekMyhology. If you would like to learn more about the real life history of disability in #ancientGreece, I recommend the @phistorians's special podcast episode with Dr Debby Sneed:
https://partialhistorians.com/2021/04/08/special-episode-disability-in-ancient-greece/

In this thread, I'm introducing characters from Greek mythology who are disabled. First up: #Hephaistos 🔥
He was born disabled and thrown from Mount Olympos by his mother Hera as a baby or by his father Zeus...

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Have a beautiful Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka aka Tuesday 🗡️

"#Ares had offered many gifts to the garlanded divinity and covered with shame the marriage bed of Lord #Hephaistos."
Homer, Odyssey 8.267

🏛 Red-figure vase painting of the creation of #Pandora

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In both ancient Greek and Latin "Hephaistos' breath" is a poetic way to say fire and often the god's name was used as a synonym for the element. Even iron, "hardest of all things", is softened by fire and melts through the strength of #Hephaistos.

I wrote a whole article on #Hestia and Hephaistos, the gods of fire in #GreekMythology which is free to read on my website:

https://eroticmythology.com/mythology-monday-gods-of-fire/

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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

"When #Sol [Helios] reported this [#Aphrodite's affair with #Ares] to #Vulcanus [#Hephaistos], he saw them lying there naked, and summoned all the gods who saw [...] To Sol's progeny, however, #Venus [Aphrodite], because of his disclosure, was always hostile."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 148

🏛️ #Helios-Sol relief with snake, Domitian altar, 87 CE

#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #mythology @antiquidons @mythology

It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday! 🗡️

"Demodokos struck his lyre and began a beguiling song about the loves of Ares and Aphrodite, how first they lay together secretly in the dwelling of #Hephaistos. Ares had offered many gifts to the garlanded divinity and covered with shame the marriage bed of Lord Hephaistos."
Homer, #Odyssey 8.267

🏛 #Ares and #Aphrodite's courtship with #Erotes, 3rd century #Roman #mosaic

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In Germanic #mythology, Wieland the Smith is a crafty, disabled smith. Similar to #Hephaistos, the Greek god of smiths, Wieland was lame because of violence directed at him. Wieland had learned smithing from the dwarves. He worked for the Danish king Níðung who, to prevent him from ever leaving, had him crippled by cutting his hamstrings. In revenge, Wieland killed the king's sons and raped the king's daughter Badhild before fleeing in a flying contraption he had built.

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Hephaistos (the personification of fire) arrives on #Lemnos from the sky, as it would through a burning mirror. He is weak, within an inch of his life, but the people of Lemnos care for him and kindle the weak little flame until it grows strong enough to craft the most beautiful things.

Read more about #Hephaistos in my article on gods of fire:

https://eroticmythology.com/mythology-monday-gods-of-fire/

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Hephaistos (the personification of fire) arrives on #Lemnos from the sky, as it would through a burning mirror. He is weak, within an inch of his life, but the people of Lemnos care for him and kindle the weak little flame until it grows strong enough to craft the most beautiful things.

Read more about #Hephaistos in my article on gods of fire:

https://eroticmythology.com/mythology-monday-gods-of-fire/

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#Mythology #MythologyMonday #Hephaestus

Hephaistos (the personification of fire) arrives on #Lemnos from the sky, as it would through a burning mirror. He is weak, within an inch of his life, but the people of Lemnos care for him and kindle the weak little flame until it grows strong enough to craft the most beautiful things.

Read more about #Hephaistos in my article on gods of fire:

https://eroticmythology.com/mythology-monday-gods-of-fire/

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#Mythology #MythologyMonday #Hephaestus

Hephaistos (the personification of fire) arrives on #Lemnos from the sky, as it would through a burning mirror. He is weak, within an inch of his life, but the people of Lemnos care for him and kindle the weak little flame until it grows strong enough to craft the most beautiful things.

Read more about #Hephaistos in my article on gods of fire:

https://eroticmythology.com/mythology-monday-gods-of-fire/

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#Mythology #MythologyMonday #Hephaestus

Hephaistos (the personification of fire) arrives on #Lemnos from the sky, as it would through a burning mirror. He is weak, within an inch of his life, but the people of Lemnos care for him and kindle the weak little flame until it grows strong enough to craft the most beautiful things.

Read more about #Hephaistos in my article on gods of fire:

https://eroticmythology.com/mythology-monday-gods-of-fire/

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So much so that our word copper derives from aes Cyprium, metal of #Cyprus. Mirrors in antiquity were often made of polished #copper (alloys).
Today, the symbol of #Venus is still used in biology for the female sex ♀️.

Another story about mirrors concerns #Aphrodite's husband Hephaistos: According to the Illiad, #Hephaistos landed on Lemnos after being thrown from Olympos by his father Zeus. The myth can be read as an intersting allegory:

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It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday! 🗡️

A humourous oil painting of the love of #Mars and #Venus that was created when the artist was only 15 or 16 years old.
Mars ist struck by an arrow in his chest but it is a love arrow 😘

🏛️ Mars, Venus and #Vulcan, by John Singleton Copley. Oil on canvas, dated 1754 CE. Today in the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, USA.

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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

"Phaethon [#Helios] laughed, because #Ares in the seafight [of #Dionysos against the Indians] had fled again before the fire of #Hephaistos, as once before he fled from his chains."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 39.403

🎨 Helios (possibly Alexander of Macedon) bronze bust, 1st century CE.

#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #mythology @antiquidons @mythology

The myth of his fall from Olympos can also be read as an allegory:

#Hephaistos (fire) arrives on Lemnos from the sky, as it would through a burning mirror. He is weak, within an inch of his life, but the people of #Lemnos care for him and kindle the weak little flame until it grows strong enough to craft the most beautiful things.

If you enjoyed this read and are looking for more, you can find all my non-fiction articles and erotic mythology fiction on my website:

https://eroticmythology.com/

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The myth of his fall from Olympos can also be read as an allegory:

#Hephaistos (fire) arrives on Lemnos from the sky, as it would through a burning mirror. He is weak, within an inch of his life, but the people of #Lemnos care for him and kindle the weak little flame until it grows strong enough to craft the most beautiful things.

If you enjoyed this read and are looking for more, you can find all my non-fiction articles and erotic mythology fiction on my website:

https://eroticmythology.com/

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The myth of his fall from Olympos can also be read as an allegory:

#Hephaistos (fire) arrives on Lemnos from the sky, as it would through a burning mirror. He is weak, within an inch of his life, but the people of #Lemnos care for him and kindle the weak little flame until it grows strong enough to craft the most beautiful things.

If you enjoyed this read and are looking for more, you can find all my non-fiction articles and erotic mythology fiction on my website:

https://eroticmythology.com/

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The myth of his fall from Olympos can also be read as an allegory:

#Hephaistos (fire) arrives on Lemnos from the sky, as it would through a burning mirror. He is weak, within an inch of his life, but the people of #Lemnos care for him and kindle the weak little flame until it grows strong enough to craft the most beautiful things.

If you enjoyed this read and are looking for more, you can find all my non-fiction articles and erotic mythology fiction on my website:

https://eroticmythology.com/

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The myth of his fall from Olympos can also be read as an allegory:

#Hephaistos (fire) arrives on Lemnos from the sky, as it would through a burning mirror. He is weak, within an inch of his life, but the people of #Lemnos care for him and kindle the weak little flame until it grows strong enough to craft the most beautiful things.

If you enjoyed this read and are looking for more, you can find all my non-fiction articles and erotic mythology fiction on my website:

https://eroticmythology.com/

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No fire meant a disruption of all normal life for nine days: no regular meals like bread or porridge, no incense to burn for the gods, the hearth and thus the centre of every community and household is dead - until new life arrives from the sea.

#Hephaistos, it is said, loves #Lemnos "more than any place on earth". According to the Illiad, it was on Lemnos where Hephaistos landed after being thrown from Olympos by his father #Zeus and it is on Lemnos where he has his forge.

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No fire meant a disruption of all normal life for nine days: no regular meals like bread or porridge, no incense to burn for the gods, the hearth and thus the centre of every community and household is dead - until new life arrives from the sea.

#Hephaistos, it is said, loves #Lemnos "more than any place on earth". According to the Illiad, it was on Lemnos where Hephaistos landed after being thrown from Olympos by his father #Zeus and it is on Lemnos where he has his forge.

7/8

No fire meant a disruption of all normal life for nine days: no regular meals like bread or porridge, no incense to burn for the gods, the hearth and thus the centre of every community and household is dead - until new life arrives from the sea.

#Hephaistos, it is said, loves #Lemnos "more than any place on earth". According to the Illiad, it was on Lemnos where Hephaistos landed after being thrown from Olympos by his father #Zeus and it is on Lemnos where he has his forge.

7/8

No fire meant a disruption of all normal life for nine days: no regular meals like bread or porridge, no incense to burn for the gods, the hearth and thus the centre of every community and household is dead - until new life arrives from the sea.

#Hephaistos, it is said, loves #Lemnos "more than any place on earth". According to the Illiad, it was on Lemnos where Hephaistos landed after being thrown from Olympos by his father #Zeus and it is on Lemnos where he has his forge.

7/8

No fire meant a disruption of all normal life for nine days: no regular meals like bread or porridge, no incense to burn for the gods, the hearth and thus the centre of every community and household is dead - until new life arrives from the sea.

#Hephaistos, it is said, loves #Lemnos "more than any place on earth". According to the Illiad, it was on Lemnos where Hephaistos landed after being thrown from Olympos by his father #Zeus and it is on Lemnos where he has his forge.

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"For then, while invoking chthonian and ineffable gods, they keep pure, I think, the fire that is out on the sea. Whenever the sacred ship sails in and they distribute the fire both to its new abode and to the forges of the artisans, from that source is the beginning of new life."

Heroikos by Lucius Flavius Philostratus, 213–214 CE

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If it did go out, only sacred fire produced by friction, or by bronze burning mirrors drawing fire from the sun, might be used to rekindle it.

A ritual from #Lemnos, the cult centre of #Hephaistos, has all fires on Lemnos extinguished for nine days until new fire is brought from the island of #Delos:

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If it did go out, only sacred fire produced by friction, or by bronze burning mirrors drawing fire from the sun, might be used to rekindle it.

A ritual from #Lemnos, the cult centre of #Hephaistos, has all fires on Lemnos extinguished for nine days until new fire is brought from the island of #Delos:

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@pagan @mythology #ancientRome #Pompeii #ancientGreece

If it did go out, only sacred fire produced by friction, or by bronze burning mirrors drawing fire from the sun, might be used to rekindle it.

A ritual from #Lemnos, the cult centre of #Hephaistos, has all fires on Lemnos extinguished for nine days until new fire is brought from the island of #Delos:

4/8

@pagan @mythology #ancientRome #Pompeii #ancientGreece

If it did go out, only sacred fire produced by friction, or by bronze burning mirrors drawing fire from the sun, might be used to rekindle it.

A ritual from #Lemnos, the cult centre of #Hephaistos, has all fires on Lemnos extinguished for nine days until new fire is brought from the island of #Delos:

4/8

@pagan @mythology #ancientRome #Pompeii #ancientGreece

If it did go out, only sacred fire produced by friction, or by bronze burning mirrors drawing fire from the sun, might be used to rekindle it.

A ritual from #Lemnos, the cult centre of #Hephaistos, has all fires on Lemnos extinguished for nine days until new fire is brought from the island of #Delos:

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"For without you [Hestia] mortals hold no banquet."
Homeric Hymn 24 to #Hestia

"Swine with the fat abundant upon them were singed and stretched out across the flame of #Hephaistos."
Homer, Iliad 9.467

As the hearth of a house is at the same time the altar on which sacrifices are offered to the domestic gods, Hestia presides over all sacrifices, and, as the goddess of the sacred fire of the altar, she gets a share of every sacrifice to the gods made at home or in their temples.

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This week's #MythologyMonday theme is fire and there are two major Greek gods associated with fire: #Hestia, goddess of the hearth, and #Hephaistos, god of smiths.

They represent #fire in two different forms: the sacrificial flame of the hearth as the sacred centre of domestic life and the flame of Hephaistos, source of all arts, and fuel of the funeral pyre. But both could be invoked for the cooking of sacrificial meat or a good meal:

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The artisans under the patronage of #Hephaistos and #Athena built their workshops nearby. Homer writes in the #Odyssey:

"As when a man adds gold to a silver vessel, a craftsman taught by Hephaistos and Athene to master his art through all its range, so that everything that he makes is beautiful."

Hephaistos and Athena seem to share most of the crafts. Only metalurgy and smithing seems to be Hephaistos' domain alone, just as weaving is the sole sphere of Athena.

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This week's #MythologyMonday theme is work.
Four deities spring to my mind when I think of work: #Demeter, #Hermes, #Hephaistos, and #Athena. #AncientGreece was an agricultural society with 80% of the population being involved in this line of work. In Greek mythology, it was Demeter who invented agriculture but according to Diodorus Siculus she burnt all the grain when her daughter #Persephone vanished out of grief and anger.

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Beautiful character design sheet of #Hephaistos by @[email protected].
There are 3 pics: Hephaistos seated in a #wheelchair, holding his smithing hammer in his left hand. The whole arm has taken on the semblence of lava and his hair is a flaming colour. In the middle there is a close-up of his head, his dark hair in a bun. On the right he is depicted with crutches, his arm grey like vulcanic stone.

https://www.tumblr.com/wolfythewitch/721398925513359360/hephaestus-d

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There are many famous revenge stories in #GreekMythology but none so impressive to young Aimée as Euripides' version of #Medea. In the Argonautika, #Hera asks #Aphrodite to make Medea fall in love with Iason to ensure her aid to obtain the golden fleece. After betraying her own family, Medea leaves with the Argonauts, helping them not only with the golden fleece but also with Talos, the bronze automaton built by #Hephaistos to protect the island of #Crete.

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Leconte de Lisle, "Poèmes antiques", 1852, poème "Médailles antiques".

https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Po%C3%A8mes_antiques/M%C3%A9dailles_antiques

#GrèceAntique #littérature #poésie #MythologieGrecque #LeconteDeLisle #Parnasse #Héphaïstos #Aphrodite

This week's #MythologyMonday theme is jewels!
When #Hephaistos found out that his wife #Aphrodite's affair with his brother #Ares had been fruitful, he crafted a cursed necklace to give to their daughter #Harmonia on her wedding day: a circlet of emeralds glowing with a hidden fire. But the adamant is stamped with figures of ill omen, and the amber, tears of #Helios' daughters, is intertwined with plague.
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The Stymphalian Birds were a flock of man-eating birds of prey which lived around Lake Stymphalis in Arkadia on the Peloponnese. #Herakles had to drive them away as the sixth of his twelve labours.
#Athena got some bronze noise-makers from #Hephaistos and gave them to him. By shaking these, Herakles frightened the birds. They flew up in fear, and Herakles could reach them with his arrows.

Which is your favourite #bird story from #mythology?
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