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Hephaestus' favourite place in the mortal world was the island of Lemnos, where he liked to dwell among the Sintians, [59] but he also frequented other volcanic islands such as Lipari, Hiera, Imbros and Sicily, which were called his abodes or workshops. [60] Hephaestus fought against the Giants and killed Mimas by throwing molten iron at him. [61]
Queen of Heaven was a title given to several ancient sky goddesses worshipped throughout the ancient Mediterranean and the ancient Near East. Goddesses known to have been referred to by the title include Inanna , Anat , Isis , Nut , Astarte , and possibly Asherah (by the prophet Jeremiah ).
Fragment of a Hellenistic relief (1st century BC–1st century AD) depicting the twelve Olympians carrying their attributes in procession; from left to right: Hestia (scepter), Hermes (winged cap and staff), Aphrodite (veiled), Ares (helmet and spear), Demeter (scepter and wheat sheaf), Hephaestus (staff), Hera (scepter), Poseidon (trident), Athena (owl and helmet), Zeus (thunderbolt and staff ...
His second wife was Omphale, the Lydian queen to whom he was delivered as a slave (Hyginus, Fabulae, 32). His third marriage was to Deianira , for whom he had to fight the river god Achelous (upon Achelous's defeat, Heracles removed one of his horns and gave it to some nymphs who turned it into the cornucopia ).
Hephaestus: Zeus God of fire and the forge Attested by the Greek poet Hesiod, Hera was jealous of Zeus's giving birth to Athena with Metis, so she gave birth to Hephaestus without union with Zeus [177] (though Homer has Hephaestus refer to "father Zeus" [178]). Hera was then disgusted with Hephaestus's ugliness and threw him from Mount Olympus ...
Polynices offering Eriphyle the necklace of Harmonia; Attic red-figure oenochoe ca. 450–440 BC. Louvre museum. The Necklace of Harmonia, also called the Necklace of Eriphyle, was a fabled object in Greek mythology that, according to legend, brought great misfortune to all of its wearers or owners, who were primarily queens and princesses of the ill-fated House of Thebes.
Of the angelic orders, he asserted that only the lowest five are sent by God to manifest themselves in the corporeal world, while the four highest remain in Heaven at His presence. [ 5 ] The Chaplet of Saint Michael the archangel, a Catholic devotion also called the rosary of the angels, approved by Pope Pius IX, includes prayers and specific ...
Mary as the Queen of Heaven in Dante's Divine Comedy. Illustration by Gustave Doré. The Regina Caeli ("Queen of Heaven") is an anthem of the Catholic Church which replaces the Angelus during Eastertide, the fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday. [24] It is named for its opening words in Latin. Of unknown authorship, the anthem has ...