myth about Hephaestus?
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Hephaestus is the Greek god whose approximate Roman equivalent is Vulcan; he is the god of technology including, specifically blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals and metallurgy, and fire. He was worshipped in all the manufacturing and industrial centers of Greece, especially Athens.\n\nThough his forge traditionally lay in the heart of Lemnos, Hephaestus was quickly identified by Greek colonists in southern Italy with the volcano gods Adranus of Mount Etna and Vulcanus of the Lipara islands and his forge moved here by the poets; the first-century sage Apollonius of Tyana is said to have observed, "there are many other mountains all over the earth that are on fire, and yet we should never be done with it if we assigned to them giants and gods like Hephaestus"\n\nHephaestus and his brother Ares are sons of Hera, with or without the cooperation of Zeus. In classic and late interpretations, Hera bore him alone, in jealousy for Zeus's solo birth of Athena, but as Hera is older than Zeus in terms of human history, the myth may be an inversion. Indeed, in some versions of Athena's birth, the goddess only enters the world after Zeus' head is split open by a hammer-wielding Hephaestus. Either way, in Greek thought, the fates of the goddess of wisdom and war (Athena) and the god of the forge that makes the weapons of war were linked. In Attica, Hephaestus and Athena Ergane (Athena as patroness of craftsman and artisans), were honored at a festival called Chalceia on the thirtieth day of Pyanepsion. Hephaestus crafted much of Athena's weaponry, along with those of the rest of the gods and even of a few mortals who received their special favor.\n \nThe Doric Temple of Hephaestus, Athens: western face.An Athenian founding myth tells that Athena refused a union with Hephaestus, and that when he tried to force her she disappeared from the bed. Hephaestus ejaculated on the earth, impregnating Gaia, who subsequently gave birth to Erichthonius of Athens; then the surrogate mother gave the child to Athena to foster, guarded by a serpent. Hyginus made an etymology of strife ("Eri-") between Athena and Hephaestus and the Earth-child ("chthonios"). Some readers may have the sense that an earlier, non-virginal Athene is disguised in a convoluted re-making of the myth-element. At any rate, there is a Temple of Hephaestus (Hephaesteum or the so-called "Theseum") located near the Athens agora, or marketplace. (illustration, right).\n\nOn the island of Lemnos, his consort was the sea nymph Cabeiro, by whom he was the father of two metalworking gods named the Cabeiri.\n\nIn Sicily, his consort was the nymph Aetna, and his sons two gods of Sicilian geysers called Palici-.
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Lucifer (light bringer) is almost a direct ripoff of the Titan Prometheus from Greco-Roman mythology. Prometheus created humans in an idle moment, and really pissed off the gods by giving them fire (knowledge) and got "cast down" (chained to a rock with an eagle nibbling his liver) for his naughtiness. Only major difference is they removed the creation myth tie in.\n\nRemind you of any stories involving a garden and an apple?\n\nWake up folks, even their book states that knowledge is the worst enemy christans ever had. Right in the beginning no less...
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Well, I have studied mythology from a lot of various religions and the story of a great flood seems to be the one mythological story that is universal (the characters are always different and sometimes they don't build a boat, they climb a certain mountain or hill as instructed by the divine with all the creatures, but it is always basically the same story).\n\nScholars say that the oldest version of the story, atleast that is recorded, would be the one told in Hinduism about a man named Manu who finds a fish in a stream while bathing there. It is little and the fish asks Manu to take it home for safety to help it. So Manu does and the fish continues to outgrow its home and is transfered from one container to the next before finally being so large that Manu finally takes the fish to the ocean to set it free (not sure why the fish went from being a fresh water fish to a salt water fish, but it's a mythological story so let's just accept the story for what it is). Anyways, the fish thanks Manu and then tells Manu that there is going to be a great flood because waters from the North are coming and the ocean is going to rise because the waters of the North along with the rains will cause there levels to rise higher than normal. He advises Manu to gather up two of each animal and two of every seed (plants are included in the Hindu version) and to put them on a boat. Manu builds the boat and does as he is asked and just as the fish predicted, the waters start to rise. Well after a month of the ocean rising, the waters start to recede. The fish returns, but this time with a horn on its head. He calls out to Manu to tie a rope to the horn on the fish and so Manu does. The fish then toes the boat to the top of a nearby mountain and tells Manu to let everything go (the mountain in the story is not specified). Manu, having realized that the fish is God (the aspect of Vishnu) offers praise to God and is grateful for the help. (It is important to remember that in this story God is not punishing mankind or nature, but instead that the flooding is caused by natural things. the waters of the north are thought to refer to the ice melting and this along with the rains, implying that it is the normal cycle of rains, is what made the waters rise. Thus in this story God is preserving all life not punishing it. It's important to remember that Hindus believe that life reincarnates so more than two of the animals and seeds; male and female; would have been sufficient just to repopulate that type of creature and the others that may have perished would have been reincarnated. A bit different than the later versions, the Biblical version, where the flood is a punishment from God and only two of every animal are also spared; apparently even the animals were being bad??). This story is in one of the oldest Puranas of Hinduism (the only books older are the Vedas and the Upanishads). \n\nNow, many scholars believe there may be older versions of the story. However, being a practicing Hindu there is one aspect I can't help but overlook and that is that when Hinduism tells a mythological story then it isn't to be believed that the things actually happened just as the story is telling you. In fact, most Hindu mythological stories have a deeper meaning to them. The symbolism of the story represents aspects of our inner self and all the various symbolism is describing things about ourself and the processes we go through on our spiritual journey. That said, the flood may have in fact never happened and that the flood may be a symbolic tool used in the story (along with Manu, the fish and all the containers...because the story makes a point to describe all the containers which seems excedingly boring to read actually and sort of over makes the case that the fish is getting bigger). \n\nFrom Hindu India, the story then changed when it entered Zoroastrian Persia (Zoroaster is actually mentioned in the Hindu Vedas as a teacher that later it say
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No, he doesn't. I'm pretty sure he dies in the beginning of the Odyssey, or else his death is told of there. Paris did shoot him through the heel, but it is sometimes thought that the arrow was guided by Apollo. Achilles death isn't really a huge concern in the Iliad. The main theme is the choice he makes to obtain glory, and pay the price of death, and his coming to terms with the death of Patroklos, and his compassionate treatment of Priam.
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The Greek Creation Myth
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Why is this question in the mythology section?\n\nI recomend a search engine.
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Double post...\n\nOrestes, in Greek mythology, the only son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon and brother of Electra and Iphigenia. After the slaying of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, Orestes, still a boy, was sent to live in exile. Since it was the duty of the senior male in the house to punish the murderers, Orestes was commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime. With the assistance of Electra and his friend Pylades, who accompanied him in all his adventures, he killed his mother and her lover. After this matricide he was haunted by the Furies (Erinyes) until he reached Athens. He was tried and acquitted by the Areopagus, the tribunal of Athenian judges. Not all the Furies, however, accepted the verdict; and, to win full expiation from his crime, he was told to steal the sacred image of Artemis from Tauris. At Tauris he was reunited with Iphigenia and with her assistance stole the image and safely returned to Greece. It is said that he later married Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and Helen. In the Oresteia, Aeschylus dramatized his vengeance and expiation. The story was also used by Sophocles and Euripides.
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Horus\nhttp://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm\n\n\nEdit:\nAll of the research I have done claims that Horus was born of a virgin...so the myth goes anyways.
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Wrong section to post this question.\n\nTry re-posting in Mythology and Folklore.\n\nPeace.
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The men or myths that these heroes were originally based on is lost to the past, so whether they are in fact the same person or not is a mystery. However, according to their extensive reproductions in both Greek and Roman literature they are seperate and distict individuals. See sources below (Note: Hercules is the Roman name for the Roman Heracles)
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It was Athena.  Odyseus had a temple to Athena in his homeland, and he had prayed to her at the beginning and end of his voyage to Troy to fight in the Trojan War.  I believe Athena was his patron goddess.
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I believe you are referring to a myth in the Poetic Edda, specifically the Völundarkviða (the Lay of Volund), though it might also have been the Saxon version concerning Weyland (the Saxon equivalent of Volund). Both are fairly well known and the story is essentially the same.\n\nHere is an online version of the Lay of Volund: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe17.htm
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I like Greek mythology better than any other.  Every character seems to come alive.  Every story fits in with the world as it is.  It is not really about, say, how spiders came to be, or why there are echoes, it really is a guide to life and how to live it.  Oh, and by the way, the boulder guy's name was Sisyphus.
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I hope these sites help you\n\nhttp://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/myth.htm\n\nhttp://www.temple.edu/classics/oedipus.html
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The answer above mine is idiotic! He (or She) means Diameter, which is certainly different than Demeter. I'm in a religion class right now, and Demeter is by far one of my favorite Greek Gods. I can't find my notes about Demeter right of hand, but I know she is worshipped as the goddess of agriculture, or harvest like you said, so she would be worshipped a lot by farmers and such. She also controls the seasons and why they occur. He daughter Persephane was kidnapped by Hades, and was rescued like three months later, but through a deal that Hermes (I think) worked out to rescue her, she (Persephane) had to return to Hades and be the queen of the underworld for 3 months out of every year. During these three months every year when Persephane is in Hades, Demeter (her mother) mourns and does not keep up with her duties as Goddess of Agriculture, thereby creating three months of winter, and Demeter rejoices when Persephance is returned to her after the three months, thereby creating spring! Demeter and Persephane are two really cool Gods to study more on if you want to.
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Are you thinking of doing a paper on the gods?\nDon't ever sell these unscientific accounts short. Edward Furlong (not the actor) broadcast a two part series on the CBC AM 'Ideas' program in January, 1990 entitled The Immortals. Do your best to obtain either a recording or a transcript of this two part series. He covers five pre-Christ mythologies surrounding the Middle East. Believe me, his narrated collections will figuratively blow your mind.\nIf anything, it will certainly help you look at mythology from a different perspective.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_mythological_figures\n\nyou are very bored.