Hey dear Hive community, first of all I would like to welcome you all to my new post and hope you are all well! Today I would like to go into Greek mythology and present two works of art of a well-known god.
Here you can see two different small sculptures depicting the god Hephaestus from Greek mythology and one artwork was made of bronze, the other of alabaster. I find the sculptures very authentic and bring Hephaestus well to presence and almost no details were forgotten and I am a big fan of such works of art. By the way, Hephaestus is the god of blacksmithing, fire and volcanoes and his counterpart from Roman mythology is Vulcan.
Hephaestus was the son of Zeus and Hera and was married to the goddess of love Aphrodite. His tasks were mainly to produce weapons and other forged everyday objects and he was also considered a protector of metal arts and goldsmiths. He is often depicted with a hammer, anvil or pliers and one of his distinguishing marks was the long beard. In his honor, a temple was built in Athens, which is made of marble and is still well preserved today.
There are several legends about Hepaistos, such as when he made the weapons and armor of Achilles on behalf of Thetis. During the Trojan War, Hephaestus also intervened when Achilles was attacked to save his life and in many other legends he appears as a manufacturer of the weapons, armor or other forged objects of the gods. He also appears in the legend about which I recently wrote about, the Pandora's box.
Hephaestus also made the helmet of invisibility for Hades, the gauntlets for Zeus or the chariot of the sun god Helios. A huge cult has also emerged around Hephaestus, which was celebrated annually in his honor on the island Lemnos and even today Hephaestus is still very revered and is not for no reason considered one of the best-known guardian gods of the forges. By the way, if you want to learn more about the history of blacksmithing, I can recommend visiting this post that I have written in the past.
Thanks for stopping by and watching and I hope you can learn something new! I captured the pictures with my Sony Alpha 6000 and 55-210mm lens!
