🌋HEPHAESTUS ⚒️

Known as the blacksmith of the gods
Hephaestus controls fire
He can mould metals into any shapes 
And things that he desires

This god of fire can also breathe life
Into all his metal creations
He’s made two golden ladies who help him
They are both quite a sensation!

His workshops are many, countless in fact
Every volcano has one, we are told
He and his maidens make knickknacks and weapons
Of bronze and silver and gold

The tools that Heaphestus uses to build
Fabulous things in his workshop
Are also his symbols of magic and power
The hammer, the anvil and tongs

Some say he’s married to Aphrodite 
The goddess of beauty and love 
Whether she loves him back in fact
We really cannot be sure of

Hephaestus is the only god of Olympus
Who is lame and can’t really walk
But that doesn’t stop him from being
A great and powerful Greek god

So next time you see a particularly 
Beautiful piece of metal art
You will know that in some volcano
Hephaestus is working hard.