The Strange Origin of Hephaestus - The God of Forges - Greek Mythology in Comics - See U in History

hera the queen of the olympian gods was finally pregnant with zeus's child feeling excited the goddess imagined how beautiful her son would be her expectations were enormous as he would be the son of the king and queen of heaven however the child was not what she imagined upon seeing her son for the first time she was horrified he was a hairy baby with rugged features soot covered dark skin becoming even uglier as he cried the mad goddess said that he was not her son and threw him into the ocean from the top of olympus the

little god crashed violently into the ocean waters but survived however he was crippled and limped for the rest of his life hephaestus was rescued by the oceanside thetis who quickly became attached to the child unlike the goddess hera fetus took him to the island of lemnos where he grew up playing with volcanoes from childhood hephaestus developed an unparalleled skill in the art of metallurgy using the heat of the volcanoes he created the most powerful weapons and the most beautiful jewelry the god came of age and decided to return to olympus he had produced a beautiful

golden throne for his true mother the goddess hera upon seeing her strange son return hera felt chills run down her spine but upon seeing the throne he brought with him she quickly forgot her discomfort she was pleased with the gift and was eager to try it on the throne was divine beautiful and comfortable however as she tried to stand up the goddess realized that she was bound to the throne and no one seemed able to release her except hephaestus who knew the secret to freeing her but to free her he demanded that his mother and

the court of olympus stopped treating him with contempt and accept him back into olympus ashamed the goddess accepted the demand and was freed and began to treat him with due respect finally hephaestus made one last request which shocked everyone present he asked for permission to marry aphrodite the most beautiful of the goddesses zeus realized that because of her enormous beauty aphrodite aroused passions among the beings of olympus conflicts would emerge sooner or later therefore even without consulting aphrodite zeus forced her to marry hephaestus to avoid future conflicts the young hephaestus came to be respected as

a great deity the god was a magnificent blacksmith among his greatest works were the sandals of hermes the armor of achilles and the bow and arrow of eros he was a divine artist [Music] [Music] [Music] you