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posted by Jillywinkles
Taken from The Greek Gods, سے طرف کی Evslin, Evslin, & Hoopes.


No one celebrated the birth of Hephaestus. His mother, Hera, had awaited him with great eagerness, hoping for a child so beautiful, so gifted, that it would make Zeus forget his heroic swarm of children from lesser consorts. But when the baby was born she was appalled to see that he was shriveled and ugly, with an irritating bleating wail. She did not wait for Zeus to see him, but snatched the infant up and hurled him off Olympus.

For a night and a دن he fell, and hit the ground at the edge of the sea with such force that both of his legs were broken. He lay there on the ساحل سمندر, بیچ mewing piteously, unable to crawl, wracked with pain, but unable to die because he was immortal. Finally, the tide came up. A huge wave curled him under its arm and carried him off to sea. And there he sank like a stone, and was caught سے طرف کی the playful Thetis, a naiad, who thought he was a tadpole.

When Thetis understood it was a baby she had caught, she made a pet of him, and kept him in her grotto. She was amazed at the way the crippled child worked shells and bright pebbles into jewelry. One دن she appeared at a great festival of the gods wearing a ہار he had made. Hera noticed the ornament, and praised it, and asked her how she had come سے طرف کی it. Thetis told her of the strange twisted child whom someone had dropped into the ocean, and who lived now in her cave making wonderful jewels. Hera divined that it was her own son, and demanded him back.

Hephaestus returned to Olympus. There Hera presented him with a broken mountain nearby, where he could set up forges and bellows. She gave him the brawny Cyclopes to be his helpers, and promised him Aphrodite as a bride, if he would labor in the mountain and make her fine things. Hephaestus agreed because he loved her, and excused her cruelty to him.

"I know that I am ugly, Mother," he said, "but the fates would have it so. And I will make آپ gems so beautiful for your tapering arms and white throat and black hair that آپ will forget my ugliness sometimes, and rejoice that آپ have taken me back from the sea."

He became the smith-god, the great artificer, lord of mechanics. And the mountain always smoked and rumbled with his toil.
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Iris is a minor Greek goddess. She is goddess of the قوس قزح and female messenger of the gods (the male messenger of the god is Hermes).

Iris has many jobs to carry out. She travels with the speed of light from one end of the world to the other and down into the depths of the sea (Poseidon's territory) and Underworld (Hades's territory). Iris لنکس the gods to humanity. She waters the clouds with her pitcher. She also delivers to the gods the sacred water of the River Styx.

Iris is portrayed as a قوس قزح یا a goddess with golden wings on her shoulders. She carries a winged staff یا a caduceus...
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link O-Cast © is a mockumentary-style webseries created سے طرف کی the 12 Olympian gods of Greek mythology to broadcast their new lives as 20-something New Yorkers living in one apartment.
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posted by Jillywinkles
Taken from The Greek Gods, سے طرف کی Evslin, Evslin, & Hoopes.


This happy fellow had the misfortune to be an excellent musician - a realm Apollo considered his own - and where he would brook no rivalry. Hearing the satyr praised too often, Apollo invited him to a contest. The winner was to choose a penalty to which the loser would have to submit, and the Muses were to judge. So Marsyas played his flute and Apollo played his lyre. They played exquisitely; the Muses could not choose between them. Then Apollo shouted, "Now آپ must turn your instrument upside down, and play and sing at the same time....
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