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Hephaestus: (God of fire) In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was the son of Zeus and Hera, the king and queen of the gods. In another version, he was Hera's parthenogenous child, a natural form of asexual reproduction in which growth and development of embryos occur without fertilization. Rejected by his mother because of his deformity and thrown off Mount Olympus and down to earth.

He was accepted in Olympus, and became the craftsman of the gods, creating majestic armors, shields and weapons.

He was married to Aphrodite; after he learned his wife had an affair with her brother, Ares, he devised a plan with which he humiliated both lovers to the other gods.

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