- Vulcan – Mythopedia
Vulcan married Venus, the goddess of sex, lust, and love, who provided a beautiful contrast to Vulcan’s notorious unattractiveness Theirs was a loveless and sexless marriage that produced no children Venus and Vulcan Seated on a Bed (c 1550) Italian engraving Los Angeles County Museum of Art Public Domain
- Iliad: Book 18 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Next this, the eye the art of Vulcan leads Deep through fair forests, and a length of meads, And stalls, and folds, and scatter’d cots between; And fleecy flocks, that whiten all the scene A figured dance succeeds; such once was seen In lofty Gnossus for the Cretan queen, Form’d by Daedalean art; a comely band Of youths and maidens
- Hephaestus - Mythopedia
Virgil: Vulcan (the Roman equivalent of Hephaestus) appears in his typical epic role in Book 8 of the Aeneid (19 BCE), making a suit of armor for the protagonist Aeneas Ovid: The myths of Vulcan Hephaestus feature in some of Ovid’s poetry, such as the Metamorphoses (ca 8 CE)
- Jupiter – Mythopedia
Jupiter was the supreme god of the Roman pantheon, a god of the sky and weather and the champion of Rome and its empire His Greek counterpart was Zeus
- Kagutsuchi – Mythopedia
Kagutsuchi’s relationship to blacksmiths, fire, and volcanoes is very similar to that of the Greek god Hephaestus and the Roman god Vulcan Popular Culture Kagutsuchi is a popular deity in media, including: In the manga series Noragami, Kagutsuchi appears as a fire-breathing deity
- Mercury – Mythopedia
Though Mercury was the only child of that union, he had many half-siblings by way of Jupiter Among them were Vulcan, the god of forge and fire, Minerva, the goddess of wisdom and forethought, and Proserpina, the daughter of Ceres who was abducted by Pluto and taken to the underworld Proserpina would later be recovered, thanks in part to
- Mars – Mythopedia
Though Vulcan and Venus had an unhappy marriage, Vulcan still took any affair Venus might have as a great offense When Mercury saw Venus making love with Mars in Vulcan’s marriage bed, he quickly informed the cuckolded god Though Vulcan was enraged, he did not act immediately He waited patiently, and plotted his revenge
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