#hephaistos — Public Fediverse posts

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

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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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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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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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