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Gofannon, Welsh god of blacksmithing, ale, architecture and building Goibniu , Irish god of blacksmithing, one of the Trí Dée Dána Lugh , god of craftsmen, games, arts, oaths, truth, and law
As a smithing god, Hephaestus made all the weapons of the gods in Olympus. He served as the blacksmith of the gods, and was worshipped in the manufacturing and industrial centres of Greece, particularly Athens. The cult of Hephaestus was based in Lemnos. [1] Hephaestus's symbols are a smith's hammer, anvil, and a pair of tongs.
The name of his father appears as Esarg or Tuirbe Trágmar, the 'thrower of axes'. [6] Goibniu is often grouped together with Credne the silversmith and Luchta the carpenter as the Trí Dée Dána (three gods of art), who forged the weapons which the Tuath Dé used to battle the Fomorians.
Hephaestus (Latin: Vulcan) was the blacksmith of the gods in Greek and Roman mythology. A supremely skilled artisan whose forge was a volcano, he constructed most of the weapons of the gods, as well as beautiful assistants for his smithy and a metal fishing-net of astonishing intricacy. He was the god of metalworking, fire, and craftsmen.
Male gods associated with smithing. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. H. Hephaestus (4 C, 21 P) L. Lugh (10 P) P. Ptah ...
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 ...
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
Svarog [a] is a Slavic god who may be associated with fire and blacksmithing and who was once interpreted as a sky god on the basis of an etymology rejected by modern scholarship. He is mentioned in only one source, the Primary Chronicle, which is problematic in interpretation. He is presented there as the Slavic equivalent of the Greek god ...