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Hephaestus (UK: / h ɪ ˈ f iː s t ə s / hif-EE-stəs, US: / h ɪ ˈ f ɛ s t ə s / hif-EST-əs; eight spellings; Ancient Greek: Ἥφαιστος, romanized: Hḗphaistos) is the Greek god of artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture and volcanoes. [1]
Brigid, goddess of spring, blacksmiths, fertility, healing, and poetry; Gobannus, Gallo-Roman deity whose name means 'the smith'; Gofannon, Welsh god of blacksmithing, ale, architecture and building
Gorō Nyūdō Masamune (五郎入道正宗, Priest Gorō Masamune, c. 1264 –1343) [2] was a medieval Japanese blacksmith widely acclaimed as Japan's greatest swordsmith. He created swords and daggers, known in Japanese as tachi and tantō , in the Sōshū school .
Amatsumara(天津麻羅) (“one eye of heaven”) or (ironworker of heaven) also known as “Amenomahitotsu” (Heaven's Eye One Kami) is the Shinto kami of ironworking and blacksmiths, was discussed in the Kojiki [1] and is associated with the giant yōkai Daidara-bocchi [2] He is also the patron kami for blacksmiths.
Yama with his famous Yama Pasha. Ankusha (also Elephant Goad), an elephant goad which is one of the eight auspicious objects known as Ashtamangala. Ankusha is also an attribute of many Hindu gods, including Ganesha. (Hindu mythology, Jainism, Buddhist mythology) Ayudhapurusha, the anthropomorphic depiction of a divine weapon in Hindu art ...
Hephaestus, god of blacksmiths, crafting, fire, and volcanoes, Roman form Vulcan; Hestia, goddess of the hearth and its fires; Prometheus, god of fire, is credited with the creation of humanity from clay, and who defies the gods by stealing fire and giving it to humanity as civilization; Apollo, god of the Sun, healing, prophecy, and writing
The Three Great Spears of Japan are three individual spears that were made and crafted by the greatest historical blacksmiths of Japan: [1] Tonbokiri (蜻蛉切): This spear once wielded by Honda Tadakatsu, one of the great generals of Tokugawa Ieyasu. It was forged by Masazane, a disciple of Muramasa.
Wayland in Fredrik Sander's 1893 Swedish edition of the Poetic Edda. In Germanic mythology, Wayland the Smith (Old English: Wēland; Old Norse: Vǫlundr [ˈvɔlundr̩], Velent; Old Frisian: Wela(n)du; German: Wieland der Schmied; Old High German: Wiolant; Galans (Galant) in Old French; [1] Proto-Germanic: * Wēlandaz from *Wilą-ndz, lit. "crafting one" [2]) is a master blacksmith originating ...