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📸 A damaged bridge following floods caused by #Storm #Bora, in #Faliraki, on the island of #Rhodes, Monday, December2 [Stelios Misinas/Reuters]

#Greece fire services responded to a total of 3,024 calls. At least two people lost their lives as flash floods swept through #Lemnos.

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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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:

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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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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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