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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]
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur [b] (Ancient Greek: Μινώταυρος, Mīnṓtauros), also known as Asterion, is a mythical creature portrayed during classical antiquity with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man [4] (p 34) or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, a being "part man and part bull".
Hephaestus created many weapons or equipment throughout the show such as: the Sword of Hephaestus (as seen in "Prometheus"); the Chains of Hephaestus (as seen in "Prometheus"; "Looking Death in the Eye," and "Motherhood"); the Metal of Hephaestus (as seen in "The Dirty Half Dozen" and "The Deliverer"); the Eye of Hephaestus (as seen in "The ...
Articles relating to the god Hephaestus and his cult. He is the Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, and fire.
Top half human, bottom half fish, able to control and predict the weather and travel between the human world and the underworld through water. Anishinaabeg myth refers to one trying to take a human husband, the act of bringing him to their world and going through with the marriage turning him into one of them. Sasquatch – see Bigfoot.
Male platypuses have sharp spurs on their back legs shaped like a canine tooth. These hollow spurs measure 0.59 to 0.71 inches long and connect to crural glands in the animal’s upper thighs.
Hephaestin is a member of the family of copper oxidases that includes mammalian ceruloplasmin, yeast fet3 and fet5, and bacterial ascorbate oxidase, among others.While hephaestin shares 50% amino acid sequence identity with its serum homologue ceruloplasmin, the hephaestin protein includes an additional 86 amino acids at the C-terminus, which code for a single transmembrane domain and a short ...
Kangaroos may have a reputation for being cute and cuddly animals, but the males of the species can be pretty intimidating. In fact, if you happen to run into one of these muscly males, you wouldn ...