Hephaestus 2

Hephaestus was married to the goddess Aphrodite. Aphrodite was obsessed with appearances and soon became embarrassed by Hephaestus. When Hephaestus would leave to travel, Aphrodite would cheat on him with Ares. Ares is the god of war and Hephaestus’s own brother. When Hephaestus realized that Aphrodite had cheated on him, he set up a trap. He trapped Aphrodite and Ares. After their trapping, he invited the other gods and goddess to witness what has been going on. Many of these Olympians were impressed with Hephaestus’s work.

Once, when Hera and Zeus were fighting, Hephaestus became involved very quickly. They were fighting about Zeus cheating, which was their main topic for quarreling, seeing that Zeus cheated on his wife many times. Hephaestus sided with Hera, but this was a terrible mistake because Zeus was the most powerful of all of the gods. Zeus, being angry, seized Hephaestus and threw him off of Mount Olympus. Hephaestus was the only god that has ever been thrown off of Mount Olympus. When he was thrown off the second time, there were not any sea goddesses there to catch him so, he fell to the ground. He became even more injured than he was before. Generally, gods and goddesses were viewed as very beautiful and divine figures. Hephaestus is the only god that is not viewed as such a perfect god.

Hephaestus was very good at making beautiful creations.  Throughout his immortal life, he had been thrown off the home of the gods, Mount Olympus, not once, but twice. This made him extremely injured, but still left him with his rare godlike talent. Not many other immortals had a gift as rare as Hephaestus’s gift of creation. His great uncles, the Cyclopes, did have this gift of metal working too. Instead of using their talent they guarded Cronus in the underworld.