How ironic he was crippled, deformed, and rejected by his own mother. But the weapons and jewelry he crafted were unparalleled and beautiful in every way he crafted them.
In some versions of the myth it was an injury done by Zeus when Hephaestus tried to protect his mother from Zeus (Greek God relationships usually weren’t really good, except for a few).
@@mgr.art.danielgoga7943 Thanatos too, who escorted the less glamorous of humanity - your average Joe. I quite like how Sisyphus tricked him and Persephone!
Ahh Hephaestus, such an underrated and under appreciated God. That’s what made this video so much better in my opinion, it was short but sweet and gave him some time in the limelight.
@@kenra6603 Saturn ate his children as they were born. The last born was Zeus...who tricked him. And the other gods were freed from Saturn's belly. Soooo...unlike every monarchy that we've ever heard of....the youngest son became the king.
I feel sorry for him he's practically one of the more underappreciated gods and even after marrying Aphrodite he was still disrespected when she was messing around with Aries
He ends up finding out about her infidelity with Ares and ensnared both of them in a humiliating trap to catch them. He then divorced her and married someone far kinder and almost as beautiful as Aphrodite. So he turned out alright.
Another version of this tale is that Hera was jealous of Zeus having a child by himself (Athena, which makes no sense as Hephaestus should be older than her as he helped with Athena's birthing) as such in retaliation she decided to do the same and through her own power/domains she gave birth to her own son. Depending on the story it was either Zeus who threw him of Olympus in a jealous rage or Hera who threw him off Olympus out of disgust. In some tales Hephaestus didn't ask for Aphrodite's hand in marriage and was just assigned to marry her as his existence as an unattractive God wouldn't inspire jealousy from the other gods, while in others he requested her hand. Hephaestus is the god of fire, blacksmith's, craftsmen, sculptors, volcanoes, forges, and many more.
These are not 2 different version in fact he was thrown 2 times first time as child by Hera and second time by Zeus when he tried to help his mother.First time landed on ocean second time on Lemnos.
@@hexbug9737 Bro its not its not like these 2 stories appear in 2 different works. Both stories appear in Homers Iliad. When Achilies Mother ask for his son New armor Hephaestus mentions When his Mother throw him. Also When Hera makes Zeus angry Hephaestus reminds her how he got thrown by Zeus and landed on Lemnos. Since you dont have proper Knowledge please restrain yourself from making those comments.
In the version you speak Athena splits open Zeus' head on her own and comes out with full armor and weapon from it along with a battle cry which causes Hera's jealousy as usual and tried to get a kid on her own.
The throne was described as golden with red cushion. Hephaestus is said to b the god of forges as a short version to ALL of his dominions. Fire, technology, craftsmen, sculptors, volcanoes, blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, artisans, sculptors, and metallurgy. All of that separately and forges or Smith god for short. Vulcan is his Roman name.
@@mdplayer1636 Craftsmen, craftmanship, same thing. Technology was always there, just not the same as we know today. Like water mills, ancient cranes that pulled things up by ropes and men, things like that.
@@sifilore9462 No craftmanship and technology is not the same thing really cause that would be like saying its technology by cutting of one side of a log so make a more slender handle for a cavemen club
I can’t help but feel that the lesser gods, like the dryads and nymphs, as well was the demihumans, like the centaurs and satyrs, were and are much nicer than the Olympian peacocks.
Centaurs not so much but, it's kind of a case by case basis. The Olympians not being nice is more to do with their God complex (pun intended). They aren't inherently nasty so much as they genuinely believe they are above everyone else and that leads to them acting as such. They are fickle and moody and believe their feelings justified in any given situation no matter how petty or irrational because they believe they are above everyone else so it doesn't matter how ridiculous their reactions might seem to more reliably reasonable beings. What we might perceive as cruel, ovezealous treatment for example, is likely, in the mind of an Olympian, a fully deserved and justified punishment for some perceived slight they felt has been put against them or their feelings.
Hephaestus is the batman of the Greek mythos. He had a backup plan a million times over, knew the god's weaknesses, and could force weapons out of said weaknesses to use against them
Could you imagine if Hephestus was a fighter like Ares or Athena? he,d be terrifying. not only would he be able to craft things that are designed to impare you but he,d also have the physical skill to take you down if traps didn't work.
@@taylorschott4659 plus he is able to make automations. Prosthetics for the wounded and for his lame leg are childs play in comparison. Edit. Hephaestus could have been the good going Kratos in the myths, and like you said, if warfare was his domain, he would be terrifying to fight, his followers as well
I think in another version, Hera chose Hephaestus for Aphrodite to marry after noticing the chaos the other gods were causing when fighting over Aphrodite, and she did this to be in her son’s good side.
There’s a version just like this but it’s Zeus who basically forces Aphrodite to marry Hephaestus because when he became the supreme ruler he kinda saw n predicted what would happen if Aphrodite was not married off and I understand being forced to be married but I’d rather have a loving, caring husband like Hephaestus than ares, I mean you betrayed your husband for his brother like no I don’t like that but this is just my opinion
The best thing about mythology is that different interpretations of the same stories can all be seen as correct since it's up to the individual to decide
Heaphestus's life was pain and sorrow, to channel such energies into his art and be truly beautiful. Take Van Gogh for example. His art was only so beautiful because he channeled his pain into it. Heaphestus never would have had an easy life, even for a god.
Hephaestus was a badass. He survived getting yeeted into the ocean, became the ultimate blacksmith, got payback for getting kicked out of Olympus, got the hottest wife possible, and continued to make some of the sickest items in Greek mythology. Aphrodite did end up cheating on him with Aries but he got revenge on both of them and got a new wife that actually loved him.
Yeah but that was on him for asking for one of the most saught after women to marry him against her will. What do you expect from a hot person who has no interest in you.
I feel sympathy for Hephaestus too. Being abandoned by his son mother because on how he looked. And Hera being also the goddess of family and childbirth she just ruined her status as goddess of childbirth and family by having the perfect family in which accepting all children including her own
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I'm writing out a story in which Hepastus' grandson goes to Colchis to check on the bronze bulls Hepastus had left to guard the golden fleece. Later on Hepaestus arrives to repair them. I'm trying to keep the details of my story consistent with the legends, but with very slight modifications: I.E.. His "Donkey" is a thirty foot tall bronze donkey with both legs and wheels AND contains a portable forge.
"And by the way. Zeus? I want your daughter!" *Zeus sizes up Hephaestos and looks at the other gods* "Y'know what? Take her! All yours. Just don't come to visit!"
it was even stranger when another version of the tale says that he was the single produce of Hera basically saying "I can make my own children without you" and then she did and gave birth to him
I read a version where he did not know who his parents were and that hera herself was the only one to birth him making him out of the earth. He had given her the chair and was only able to be free when she told him who is true parents where but hera did not want to say he was hers dur to his grotesque appearance so he fled because he would not free her. Zues was forced to help hera by offering aphrodites hand in marriage. She had done this willinging holing to get ares as her husband, where he only had enjoyed the thrill of finding and winning for the glory of winning but dyonisus had went on and found hephestus told him of what was happening and both traveled up the mountains once more. Since he had brought himself he had won the right to her hand in marriage and with that he was told of his heritage and given the right to be recognized by the gods along with dyonisus who was also at the time looked at as a lesser God now looked at as a more important god
He also created the first robots: three-legged crafting tables with golden wheels who could follow him around and provide the tools he needed. See Iliad xviii. Even the Greek knew beauty times brains is a constant. PS: Hephaestus later creation, the giant bronze robot Talos, is much better known.
Hephaestus is the only God who is working. And this is a big shame that he also one of the most underrated/unpopular God amongst others. One the same line as Hades and Ares, but both of them have some love in present world, when Hephaestus is still unwelcomed and forgotten Thanks author for even this brief story about Hephaestus, maybe the first one on UA-cam about him
Hephaestus was the only god who was working?! Not true! Athena is a skilled seamstress and weaver of tapestries. Dionysius is not just the god of wine and feasts, he is also the one who grows and prunes the grapes and makes wine out of them. And Demeter is pretty much a farming goddess. Hermes is a merchant... Apollo makes medicine...
Yes... she apparently did so out of envy! Zeus had seemingly given birth to the beautiful, wonderful Athena... ...which stung Hera's pride cuz... what's the point of a man having a wife if he can just give birth to a wonderful child all by himself. So Hera also decided to give birth to a child, all by herself, without having her husband impregnate her... a child that would be even more wonderful and beautiful than Athena... ...didn't work.
Hephaestus is such a cool god. He sticks it to all the pomp and circumstance by clever wit and not just mindless storms, or godly wrath even though he is the god of volcanoes. I especially enjoy the story where he gets Aphrodite and ares in the next and just drags them to Olympus for everyone to gawk at.
@@fromthefountofyouth actually Ares was Zeus and Hera’s firstborn son and thought of him as a successor until they realized he became the god of violent warfare and bloodshed.
@@mdplayer1636 The version that ascribes Hephaestus to parthenogenesis doesn't have precedence in Greek mythology. Gaia, Mother Earth, was the only one reckoned to possess this ability and it was in this manner that she begot Pontus and Ouranos, and this in the very early days of the Cosmos. Even Chtonic beings were formed from the union of more than one element: Melia, nymph of the sweet ash tree from the blood that dropped to Earth from Ouranos' castration, Aphrodite, from the spume and seed of Ouranos' gelded member as it made a splash in the ocean, the Spartoi from the teeth of the slain water dragon planted in earth, mankind of the Bronze Age from the act of Deucalion and Pyrrha hurling stones behind their backs, among others And contrary to opinions that I have read here, Athena wasn't a product of parthenogenesis any more than the "twice born" god, Dionysus was.
@@js1423 in General, the gods (and all other characters in these great videos) looks way better (and much more like I would imagine gods with superhuman abilities) than the Disney counterparts. I really enjoyed the Disney movie despite its mythical inaccuracy -Zeus is anything but not a faithful husband. However, most of the male gods look like middle-aged untrained men in the Disney version
there us another version of this story where hephaestus was crippled because zues and hera were arguing and he sided with hera, zues threw him off of mount Olympus and that's why he was crippled.
Hephaestus is one of my favorite gods he also has one of the best endings he divorced aphrodite and marries aglaea and has alot of kids in some stories he didnt marry aphrodite he instead married aglaea and had a happy life
I'm surprised he so chill even tho he was the first born and the youngest brother cheated him when picking the kingdoms between Zeus,Poseidon, and Hades
In another story the throne appeared mysteriously and there two others, 1 for Athena, the other for Aphrodite. Like before Hera was bound to the throne, Zeus was off doing something or someone and the gods were perplexed until Dionysus mentioned hearing about a fabled blacksmith on the island, Athena offered him a workshop with top tools, Aphrodite offered him pleasure, Ares threatened him with violence. Hephaestus responded the same to all 3 “ I HAVE NO MOTHER”. It wasn’t until once again Dionysus came with music and wine and mentioned that his mother was murdered by Hera that Hephaestus talked gaining a friend who escorted him to Olympus freeing his mother.
Wasn't Hephaestus a fatherless god? I fought that the story went this way: Zeus has an affair -> Hera, now mad decides to have a baby without him and succeeds -> Hephaestus is born and jeeted of Olympus -> Hephaestus grows up with elder cyclopses (THE first ones, Gaia's first children) that teach him metalwork -> after a long time Hephaestus returns into Olympus with presents for god's (thrones) -> throne given to Hera traps her with a net-like material, no god can free her except Hephaestus, too bad he left as it happened -> Hephaestus resides in a certain town that's name I don't remember. After gods failed to free Hera they send Ares to ,, convince" Hephaestus to free her -> Ares fails and Dionysus goes to have a real talk with him (with wine) and convinces him to forgive Hera and free her -> after that Hephaestus returns to Olympus and frees Hera. On a side note part with Aphrodite is a part of a different mythos, as a matter of fact when Aphrodite arrived on Olympus form her long swim it was Hera's idea to give her hand to Hephaestus so other gods will mark her as taken and stop trying hitting on her (including Zeus). Also he didn't get suddenly all handsome when he grew up as portrayed here.
Not necessarily; both versions of his origins are correct. I don't think though that there is any ancient source in which he is raised by the Kyklopes. As for the marriage with Aphrodite, it does actually seem to be part from the myth in which he gets revenge on Hera, and it is Zeus who arranges it in most accounts. Why would anyone think that marriage would stop the gods from hitting on Aphrodite?
Moral of the story is never judge or look down on anyone or throw them away despite how they were born everyone deserves love and affection and respect 💗💗💗 .
As the saying goes "EXPECTATION is the root of all MISERY" (too much of it) 😂 so when preggy don’t expect too much that child will look like you, your wife or husband ..for who knows the child might look like your buddy or neighbor 😂✌️
Why? Aphrodite never wanted to marry Hephaestus. She was forced into it. Either because Hephaestus demanded her hand in marriage. Or because Zeus gave her to Hephaestus without consulting her. I think they’re better apart. Aphrodite is the type to flourish in a open relationship. Hephaestus is better off with his second wife, Aglaea.
It’s debatable who threw Hephaestus off Olympus. Some stories say Hera and some say Zeus. Also which of the two married Him and Aphrodite, as well as how exactly it came about.
This never happened in any myth, but I’d like to think that after screwing around with Aries, Aphrodite became pregnant with a child Aries didn’t want, and even though it wasn’t his true son Hephaestus treated him like his own, and eventually when Aries got jealous of Hephaestus and Aphrodites happiness with the child he demanded to take the child from them but when he tried to the child was so powerful it scared Aries and it became obvious who the child’s real father was
A few things I want to point out. 1: whoever did this comic made Hephaestus pretty badass looking so idk why they keep saying he's hideous. 2. I find it ironic that Hera, the most "pure" of the high level goddesses created something that mirrored the ugliness in her heart. 3. The last bit, Aphrodite looking all hot and bothered by the beefy tanned Smith 😂 And side note, I do a lot of craftsman work myself and my gf thinks it makes me look great so there's a tip for you guys: creating beautiful things adds to your looks when trying to get someone's attention 😜😂
Hephaestus did have a son, but not with Aphrodite but with Gaea (that was an accident though) That son supposedly had serpentine traits... I think his upper body was that of a man but the lower body was that of a serpent... That said, that son became the first king of Athens or something like that...
Beautiful drawings, however the island in which he grew was Sicily, not lemnos, and were the cyclops living under the mt Aetna volcano that taught him how to forge metals and be a blacksmith.
So Hephaestus & Ares were full brothers. And Ares totally betrayed his brother 💔 by sleeping with Aphrodite. Also his Greek name Vulcan is where we get the word volcano 🌋.
![The VERY Messed Up Tale of Hephaestus's Revenge [ANIMATED] | Mythology Explained](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/TF1qIFrOJjM/mqdefault.jpg)
How ironic he was crippled, deformed, and rejected by his own mother. But the weapons and jewelry he crafted were unparalleled and beautiful in every way he crafted them.
SKILL INSTEAD OF BEAUTY WAS HIS GIFT
Bro has said no to skill issue
In some versions of the myth it was an injury done by Zeus when Hephaestus tried to protect his mother from Zeus (Greek God relationships usually weren’t really good, except for a few).
His beauty was not in looks but in what he created.
Look they gotta balance him somehow
Hephaestus, the only Greek god with a proper job.
Hades(literal God who decided the fate of souls): cute
Hermes. Delivery guy.
Hades:😐
@@mgr.art.danielgoga7943 Thanatos too, who escorted the less glamorous of humanity - your average Joe. I quite like how Sisyphus tricked him and Persephone!
@@fromthefountofyouth well Thanatos is mostly depicted as a chill god
Ahh Hephaestus, such an underrated and under appreciated God. That’s what made this video so much better in my opinion, it was short but sweet and gave him some time in the limelight.
They forget that as the first borne son of Zeus and Hera he is Heir to Olympus
itself.
@@kenra6603 I doubt the other Gods would allow Hephaestus to take over. Technically, Athena is the heir since she came from his first marriage.
@@kenra6603 Saturn ate his children as they were born. The last born was Zeus...who tricked him. And the other gods were freed from Saturn's belly.
Soooo...unlike every monarchy that we've ever heard of....the youngest son became the king.
@@drmodestoesq Right of conquest in that case.
I actually did a school project about him couple years back
I feel sorry for him he's practically one of the more underappreciated gods and even after marrying Aphrodite he was still disrespected when she was messing around with Aries
He deserves better than Aphrodite.
Aphrodite was forced to marry him though.
@@nobleojoe247 That doesn't matter; She's his property.
@@savagedarksider5934 Oh. okay
He ends up finding out about her infidelity with Ares and ensnared both of them in a humiliating trap to catch them. He then divorced her and married someone far kinder and almost as beautiful as Aphrodite. So he turned out alright.
Another version of this tale is that Hera was jealous of Zeus having a child by himself (Athena, which makes no sense as Hephaestus should be older than her as he helped with Athena's birthing) as such in retaliation she decided to do the same and through her own power/domains she gave birth to her own son.
Depending on the story it was either Zeus who threw him of Olympus in a jealous rage or Hera who threw him off Olympus out of disgust. In some tales Hephaestus didn't ask for Aphrodite's hand in marriage and was just assigned to marry her as his existence as an unattractive God wouldn't inspire jealousy from the other gods, while in others he requested her hand.
Hephaestus is the god of fire, blacksmith's, craftsmen, sculptors, volcanoes, forges, and many more.
These are not 2 different version in fact he was thrown 2 times first time as child by Hera and second time by Zeus when he tried to help his mother.First time landed on ocean second time on Lemnos.
@@djordjedangubic7270 it’s two versions of the story, it’s not two times he was thrown
@@hexbug9737 Bro its not its not like these 2 stories appear in 2 different works. Both stories appear in Homers Iliad. When Achilies Mother ask for his son New armor Hephaestus mentions When his Mother throw him. Also When Hera makes Zeus angry Hephaestus reminds her how he got thrown by Zeus and landed on Lemnos.
Since you dont have proper Knowledge please restrain yourself from making those comments.
In the version you speak Athena splits open Zeus' head on her own and comes out with full armor and weapon from it along with a battle cry which causes Hera's jealousy as usual and tried to get a kid on her own.
That's why you humans know OF them and not hardly that , so people need to get their info from them or it's simply slandering them right ?
The throne was described as golden with red cushion. Hephaestus is said to b the god of forges as a short version to ALL of his dominions. Fire, technology, craftsmen, sculptors, volcanoes, blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, artisans, sculptors, and metallurgy. All of that separately and forges or Smith god for short. Vulcan is his Roman name.
And not to mention he’s the god of craftsmanship but I’m not so sure on technology since it didn’t exist in the ancient world
@@mdplayer1636 Craftsmen, craftmanship, same thing. Technology was always there, just not the same as we know today. Like water mills, ancient cranes that pulled things up by ropes and men, things like that.
@@sifilore9462 No craftmanship and technology is not the same thing really cause that would be like saying its technology by cutting of one side of a log so make a more slender handle for a cavemen club
@@mdplayer1636 today's technology didn't but ancient technology did. Technology is relative
Very nicely worded. Hephaestus/Vulcanus is an amazing God.
I can’t help but feel that the lesser gods, like the dryads and nymphs, as well was the demihumans, like the centaurs and satyrs, were and are much nicer than the Olympian peacocks.
Not hard to appear nicer when there are barely any stories about them.
I mean their ain’t really a high bar
It’s not hard to be nice when you’re a tree or a stream.
Centaurs not so much but, it's kind of a case by case basis. The Olympians not being nice is more to do with their God complex (pun intended). They aren't inherently nasty so much as they genuinely believe they are above everyone else and that leads to them acting as such. They are fickle and moody and believe their feelings justified in any given situation no matter how petty or irrational because they believe they are above everyone else so it doesn't matter how ridiculous their reactions might seem to more reliably reasonable beings. What we might perceive as cruel, ovezealous treatment for example, is likely, in the mind of an Olympian, a fully deserved and justified punishment for some perceived slight they felt has been put against them or their feelings.
@@justinanderson2460 A very long-winded way to say that most of the Olympians never outgrew their entitled teenager phase. XD
Hephaestus is the batman of the Greek mythos. He had a backup plan a million times over, knew the god's weaknesses, and could force weapons out of said weaknesses to use against them
Forge
Could you imagine if Hephestus was a fighter like Ares or Athena? he,d be terrifying. not only would he be able to craft things that are designed to impare you but he,d also have the physical skill to take you down if traps didn't work.
@@taylorschott4659He would be like Sauron from the LOTR series.
@@taylorschott4659 plus he is able to make automations. Prosthetics for the wounded and for his lame leg are childs play in comparison.
Edit. Hephaestus could have been the good going Kratos in the myths, and like you said, if warfare was his domain, he would be terrifying to fight, his followers as well
@@taylorschott4659 Don't forget, he is also the God of fire. That adds another boost to his arsenal
I think in another version, Hera chose Hephaestus for Aphrodite to marry after noticing the chaos the other gods were causing when fighting over Aphrodite, and she did this to be in her son’s good side.
But she was not, because Aphrodite cheated on Hephaistos with Ares.
@@mikloscsuvar6097 yep, either way, Aphrodite cheats on Hephaestus
@@mikloscsuvar6097 It’s no surprise, she’s the goddess of beauty and then forced to marry with the ugliest god there is. I would’ve been mad too
@@lel0uchvibritannia981 I mean she didn’t really like him so much but rather Ares
There’s a version just like this but it’s Zeus who basically forces Aphrodite to marry Hephaestus because when he became the supreme ruler he kinda saw n predicted what would happen if Aphrodite was not married off and I understand being forced to be married but I’d rather have a loving, caring husband like Hephaestus than ares, I mean you betrayed your husband for his brother like no I don’t like that but this is just my opinion
Hera is just an insta influencer who wanted to flex with her child
Let's just appreciate the sea goddess who gave the kindness to the poor baby
she was a siren, but yes les do appreciate her kindness
I like it when he used his wits and skills to make his mother accept him for who he is and gain respect from the other gods.
Hephaestus is one of my favorite amongst the gods and amongst them all, his story is the most relatable. Hephaestus rules!
Awsome video, as always!
He deserves better than Aphrodite.
@@savagedarksider5934 dude Aphrodite was forced to marry him. She didn't loved him. But Hephaestus deserve more.
@@bleh.leh.leh_ It doesn't matter; She's his property.
*"It's about drive! It's about power!"*
-Hephaestus' Grindchant
We stay hungry we devour!
And take what's ours!
❤
Put in the work, put in the hours & take, what's ours!
From being disowned by your own mom to your wife cheating on you this guy can’t catch a break
He was cheating also!
@@sophiawilson8696 You don't say!!!
@@sophiawilson8696 he only cheat because he always getting cheated on
even worse when he is imprisoned to the underworld and dies by the hands of a vengeful god of war...
@@soldiergigas14 of course. he caught said god of war in a net and scolded both of them when he caught aphrodite with ares.
The best thing about mythology is that different interpretations of the same stories can all be seen as correct since it's up to the individual to decide
Heaphestus's life was pain and sorrow, to channel such energies into his art and be truly beautiful. Take Van Gogh for example. His art was only so beautiful because he channeled his pain into it. Heaphestus never would have had an easy life, even for a god.
Hephaestus was a badass. He survived getting yeeted into the ocean, became the ultimate blacksmith, got payback for getting kicked out of Olympus, got the hottest wife possible, and continued to make some of the sickest items in Greek mythology.
Aphrodite did end up cheating on him with Aries but he got revenge on both of them and got a new wife that actually loved him.
Good Aphrodite was a whole anyway.
The wedding with Aphrodite was the worst error of his life, and gave him so much unhappiness and she cheated with Ares in several occasions.
Yeah but that was on him for asking for one of the most saught after women to marry him against her will. What do you expect from a hot person who has no interest in you.
@@goldcherries Indeed. Doing wrong will always backfire.
I saw it as the Olympians escalating rewards to free Hera, from riches, godhood, place among Olympians and finally marriage to Aphrodite.
I feel sympathy for Hephaestus too. Being abandoned by his son mother because on how he looked. And Hera being also the goddess of family and childbirth she just ruined her status as goddess of childbirth and family by having the perfect family in which accepting all children including her own
Hera: throws Hephaestus off mount Olympus 🤽♀️
The other Olympians:😟😨😱👁👄👁
Wow! Adding manga style webtoons on greek mythology feels so much better and fun to understand the story. As a manga reader, i found it interesting. Great job im a new subscriber 👍
One of my favourite one!! Such an underrated one...
I'm writing out a story in which Hepastus' grandson goes to Colchis to check on the bronze bulls Hepastus had left to guard the golden fleece. Later on Hepaestus arrives to repair them.
I'm trying to keep the details of my story consistent with the legends, but with very slight modifications: I.E.. His "Donkey" is a thirty foot tall bronze donkey with both legs and wheels AND contains a portable forge.
ooh! I'm interested in reading this
Is this available on any reading platforms?
@@Estellesullen not as yet. I have the first part written and the title of " Of Brass Bulls, A Sleepless Dragon, and Grandfather"
can u send it to me after ur done? quite interested in it tbh
@@kiarara7014 when I'm finished. I have a lot to go yet.
am also interested
"And by the way. Zeus? I want your daughter!"
*Zeus sizes up Hephaestos and looks at the other gods*
"Y'know what? Take her! All yours. Just don't come to visit!"
Aphrodite: "and I don't get any say in this🤨"
it was even stranger when another version of the tale says that he was the single produce of Hera basically saying "I can make my own children without you" and then she did and gave birth to him
I read a version where he did not know who his parents were and that hera herself was the only one to birth him making him out of the earth. He had given her the chair and was only able to be free when she told him who is true parents where but hera did not want to say he was hers dur to his grotesque appearance so he fled because he would not free her. Zues was forced to help hera by offering aphrodites hand in marriage. She had done this willinging holing to get ares as her husband, where he only had enjoyed the thrill of finding and winning for the glory of winning but dyonisus had went on and found hephestus told him of what was happening and both traveled up the mountains once more. Since he had brought himself he had won the right to her hand in marriage and with that he was told of his heritage and given the right to be recognized by the gods along with dyonisus who was also at the time looked at as a lesser God now looked at as a more important god
Aphrodite looks like Starfire 2:39
Any edition of Hephaestus is good. Good job!
Hephaestus invented not only metallurgy, but also blackmailing.
Because he’s a blacksmith
One of my Favourite Gods. He is one of the few that humans can relate to.
Ashamed? Hera was probably enraged that he humiliated her like that and just did lip service just to get her off the throne.
He also created the first robots: three-legged crafting tables with golden wheels who could follow him around and provide the tools he needed. See Iliad xviii.
Even the Greek knew beauty times brains is a constant.
PS: Hephaestus later creation, the giant bronze robot Talos, is much better known.
Hephaestus is the only God who is working. And this is a big shame that he also one of the most underrated/unpopular God amongst others. One the same line as Hades and Ares, but both of them have some love in present world, when Hephaestus is still unwelcomed and forgotten
Thanks author for even this brief story about Hephaestus, maybe the first one on UA-cam about him
Hephaestus was the only god who was working?!
Not true!
Athena is a skilled seamstress and weaver of tapestries.
Dionysius is not just the god of wine and feasts, he is also the one who grows and prunes the grapes and makes wine out of them.
And Demeter is pretty much a farming goddess.
Hermes is a merchant...
Apollo makes medicine...
Hephaestus is a good god. Such an underrated one compared to the others.
According to some sources Hera gave birth to Hephaestus by completely by herself.
Yes... she apparently did so out of envy!
Zeus had seemingly given birth to the beautiful, wonderful Athena...
...which stung Hera's pride cuz... what's the point of a man having a wife if he can just give birth to a wonderful child all by himself.
So Hera also decided to give birth to a child, all by herself, without having her husband impregnate her... a child that would be even more wonderful and beautiful than Athena...
...didn't work.
Hephaestus: You don’t have to like me, but you will respect me.
This is why you never marry your sister.
Beautiful explanation 😇
Hephay, one of my favourite greek goods and the most respectful. Imagy, making weapons with great powe
Expertise , knowledge and ingenuinity , these qualities never judge a person yet Gods may
Hephaestus is such a cool god. He sticks it to all the pomp and circumstance by clever wit and not just mindless storms, or godly wrath even though he is the god of volcanoes. I especially enjoy the story where he gets Aphrodite and ares in the next and just drags them to Olympus for everyone to gawk at.
00:37 The Greek goddess of motherhood and the sanctity of marriage everyone!
Way to set an example
Not motherhood, just childbirth. A meaningful distinction there.
You drew Hephaestus very nicely
Agreed.
It would cool to see the origin of Ares: the god of war. Since he’s the most hated god in Greek mythology.
He was Hera's golden child, the one that met her perfect ideals after what was the birth of the "unsightly" Hephaestus.
@@fromthefountofyouth actually Ares was Zeus and Hera’s firstborn son and thought of him as a successor until they realized he became the god of violent warfare and bloodshed.
@@mdplayer1636 The version that ascribes Hephaestus to parthenogenesis doesn't have precedence in Greek mythology.
Gaia, Mother Earth, was the only one reckoned to possess this ability and it was in this manner that she begot Pontus and Ouranos, and this in the very early days of the Cosmos.
Even Chtonic beings were formed from the union of more than one element: Melia, nymph of the sweet ash tree from the blood that dropped to Earth from Ouranos' castration, Aphrodite, from the spume and seed of Ouranos' gelded member as it made a splash in the ocean, the Spartoi from the teeth of the slain water dragon planted in earth, mankind of the Bronze Age from the act of Deucalion and Pyrrha hurling stones behind their backs, among others
And contrary to opinions that I have read here, Athena wasn't a product of parthenogenesis any more than the "twice born" god, Dionysus was.
Hephaestus the builder.
Can we fix it?
Hephaestus the builder.
Yes we can!
Myths: "Hephaestus the ugliest of the Olympian gods"
Video: Hephaestus, the handsome, muscular and sweaty blacksmith that rocks a manly beard.
That’s what I was thinking, too!
@@SlinkieZeed He often appears more masculine than Ares in these web-comics
@@js1423 in General, the gods (and all other characters in these great videos) looks way better (and much more like I would imagine gods with superhuman abilities) than the Disney counterparts. I really enjoyed the Disney movie despite its mythical inaccuracy -Zeus is anything but not a faithful husband. However, most of the male gods look like middle-aged untrained men in the Disney version
My favorite god❤
there us another version of this story where hephaestus was crippled because zues and hera were arguing and he sided with hera, zues threw him off of mount Olympus and that's why he was crippled.
Hephaestus is one of my favorite gods he also has one of the best endings he divorced aphrodite and marries aglaea and has alot of kids in some stories he didnt marry aphrodite he instead married aglaea and had a happy life
Hera be like: Yeet the child
Hephaestus and hades are like the chillest gods in the Greek pantheon (not including Hestia you can’t beat Hestia in chillness)
I'm surprised he so chill even tho he was the first born and the youngest brother cheated him when picking the kingdoms between Zeus,Poseidon, and Hades
Not gonna lie, in this instance, it may have been smart to consult with Aphrodite and ask her her opinion on the matter
In another story the throne appeared mysteriously and there two others, 1 for Athena, the other for Aphrodite. Like before Hera was bound to the throne, Zeus was off doing something or someone and the gods were perplexed until Dionysus mentioned hearing about a fabled blacksmith on the island, Athena offered him a workshop with top tools, Aphrodite offered him pleasure, Ares threatened him with violence. Hephaestus responded the same to all 3 “ I HAVE NO MOTHER”. It wasn’t until once again Dionysus came with music and wine and mentioned that his mother was murdered by Hera that Hephaestus talked gaining a friend who escorted him to Olympus freeing his mother.
I love these mythology so much..especially Hephaestus what an MVp
We are waiting for each Greek myths
The first glued to the char trick what a guy!
Imagine if he was in our world... give him our modern knowledge of things like guns and hed make a super weppon
Ohohoho boy, who knows what sort of killing machine he's capable of making in the modern day.
I thought Hephaestus was thrown on land lol
Yeah. One version says he bounced off the side of Olympus after Hera had thrown him down, resulting in him becoming lame.
Thor: i traveled to Greece for a new hammer
Haphestus:one hammer coming right up with sparks of thunder
Wasn't Hephaestus a fatherless god? I fought that the story went this way:
Zeus has an affair -> Hera, now mad decides to have a baby without him and succeeds -> Hephaestus is born and jeeted of Olympus -> Hephaestus grows up with elder cyclopses (THE first ones, Gaia's first children) that teach him metalwork -> after a long time Hephaestus returns into Olympus with presents for god's (thrones) -> throne given to Hera traps her with a net-like material, no god can free her except Hephaestus, too bad he left as it happened -> Hephaestus resides in a certain town that's name I don't remember. After gods failed to free Hera they send Ares to ,, convince" Hephaestus to free her -> Ares fails and Dionysus goes to have a real talk with him (with wine) and convinces him to forgive Hera and free her -> after that Hephaestus returns to Olympus and frees Hera.
On a side note part with Aphrodite is a part of a different mythos, as a matter of fact when Aphrodite arrived on Olympus form her long swim it was Hera's idea to give her hand to Hephaestus so other gods will mark her as taken and stop trying hitting on her (including Zeus).
Also he didn't get suddenly all handsome when he grew up as portrayed here.
Not necessarily; both versions of his origins are correct. I don't think though that there is any ancient source in which he is raised by the Kyklopes. As for the marriage with Aphrodite, it does actually seem to be part from the myth in which he gets revenge on Hera, and it is Zeus who arranges it in most accounts. Why would anyone think that marriage would stop the gods from hitting on Aphrodite?
@@omniavanitas7893 i don't think anybody does, but that was a reasoning of and ancient goddess i suppose, it is just too late to know
Just realised this was posted on my birthday lol
Ya. He’s awesome, that’s why I’m writing a light novel about him. It’s like Percy Jackson meet the Fast and the Furious.
Moral of the story is never judge or look down on anyone or throw them away despite how they were born everyone deserves love and affection and respect 💗💗💗
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Yea. You guys see nothing yet. Wait until you see the way he punish his wife and Ares for their cheating affair. (DON'T mess with the guy)
most mothers: cares for there child
herra: yeet
He put more love into his weapons and jewelry than his mother did to him.
As the saying goes "EXPECTATION is the root of all MISERY" (too much of it) 😂
so when preggy don’t expect too much that child will look like you, your wife or husband ..for who knows the child might look like your buddy or neighbor 😂✌️
Ouch. I see what you did there. 🤣
This stuff actually makes me cry thinking about it
Hephaestuses story is so great.
Sad that aphrodite fell for hes brother Ares😠
In some versions, She's his grandaunt.
@@savagedarksider5934 😤why mytology is so confusing!!!!
Why? Aphrodite never wanted to marry Hephaestus. She was forced into it. Either because Hephaestus demanded her hand in marriage. Or because Zeus gave her to Hephaestus without consulting her.
I think they’re better apart. Aphrodite is the type to flourish in a open relationship. Hephaestus is better off with his second wife, Aglaea.
@@moondivine2288 Doesn't matter. She's his property.
@@moondivine2288 oh yeah sorry.
I'm dumb🤦♂️
It’s debatable who threw Hephaestus off Olympus. Some stories say Hera and some say Zeus. Also which of the two married Him and Aphrodite, as well as how exactly it came about.
This never happened in any myth, but I’d like to think that after screwing around with Aries, Aphrodite became pregnant with a child Aries didn’t want, and even though it wasn’t his true son Hephaestus treated him like his own, and eventually when Aries got jealous of Hephaestus and Aphrodites happiness with the child he demanded to take the child from them but when he tried to the child was so powerful it scared Aries and it became obvious who the child’s real father was
A few things I want to point out.
1: whoever did this comic made Hephaestus pretty badass looking so idk why they keep saying he's hideous.
2. I find it ironic that Hera, the most "pure" of the high level goddesses created something that mirrored the ugliness in her heart.
3. The last bit, Aphrodite looking all hot and bothered by the beefy tanned Smith 😂
And side note, I do a lot of craftsman work myself and my gf thinks it makes me look great so there's a tip for you guys: creating beautiful things adds to your looks when trying to get someone's attention 😜😂
Everyone feels sorry for Hera when Zues is off sleeping around but she is just as vain and shallow. They deserve each other
Hephaestus is my fav Greek god
very sad back story but good on the ending
what would a child of Hephaestus and Aphrodite look like?
They never had 1
Hephaestus did have a son, but not with Aphrodite but with Gaea (that was an accident though)
That son supposedly had serpentine traits... I think his upper body was that of a man but the lower body was that of a serpent...
That said, that son became the first king of Athens or something like that...
I first heard of Hephaestus from the fighting game Soul Calibur 2
Can you just go to Olympus just like that
People saying Hephaestus is underappreciated? Bruh you just don't know how appreciated he is.
I like to think zeus didn't even know hephaestus existed until he appeared in olympus as a full grown man
classic zeus.
My favourite God, the God of technology. It's a crime we don't have a planet named after him.
Vulcan, it is not same with Vulcan on Star Trek?
I love how in danmachi he's a woman and very beautiful, nothing like the real him
This family indeed has a lot of love envolved
And some hours after their marriage, Aphrodite would cheat on him with Ares. This guy just can't catch a break.
how was he able to lift a whole throne if he was crippled for life?
Well now we know why Aphrodite always cheats on him.
0:36 YEET!
The only thing that surprised me in this story is that Zeus didn't go after Aphrodite himself!
...apparently he did! Just once or twice...
@@mariobenedicto3582 Apparently!!?
That's my favourite god from Greek mythology :)
Beautiful drawings, however the island in which he grew was Sicily, not lemnos, and were the cyclops living under the mt Aetna volcano that taught him how to forge metals and be a blacksmith.
Hephaestus looks like Thor in this art style
Yeah ... And after the two god married Aphrodite cheated him to god of war ares😔
2:53 Aphrodite s thinking" Well what's muscles!". By the way his character design is quiete hot!
Love this one
Hephaestus is the only god that has a hammer
In the end it’s always something related to Zeus.
Hephaestus: *was born*
Hera: *YEET*
Awesome story. from rags to Olympus.
What a mean mother
A true master of his craft... Too bad he was part of such a happy family 🙃
So Hephaestus & Ares were full brothers. And Ares totally betrayed his brother 💔 by sleeping with Aphrodite. Also his Greek name Vulcan is where we get the word volcano 🌋.