Hephaestus - Vulcan
Hephaestus is the Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire, and volcanoes. Hephaestus' Roman counterpart is Vulcan. In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was either the son of Zeus and Hera or he was Hera's parthenogenous child. He was cast off Mount Olympus by his mother because of his deformity or, in another account, by Zeus for protecting Hera from his advances.
As a smithing god, Hephaestus made all the weapons of the gods in Olympus. He served as the blacksmith of the gods, and was worshipped in the manufacturing and industrial centres of Greece, particularly Athens. The cult of Hephaestus was based in Lemnos. Hephaestus' symbols are a smith's hammer, anvil, and a pair of tongs.
Hephaestus - Vulcan Stamp Collection
Greece 1986 Hephaestus crafted much of the magnificent equipment of the gods , hands in the new Achilles' armor to Thetis (Iliad, XVIII, 617).
Attic red-figure Kylix, 490–480 BC. Greece. Altes Museum
Hephaestus had his own palace on Olympus, containing his workshop with anvil and twenty bellows that worked at his bidding. Hephaestus crafted much of the magnificent equipment of the gods, and almost any finely wrought metalwork imbued with powers that appears in Greek myth is said to have been forged by Hephaestus. He designed Hermes' winged helmet and sandals, the Aegis breastplate, Aphrodite's famed girdle, Agamemnon's staff of office, Achilles' armour, Diomedes' cuirass, Heracles' bronze clappers, Helios' chariot, the shoulder of Pelops, and Eros's bow and arrows. In later accounts, Hephaestus worked with the help of the Cyclopes—among them his assistants in the forge, Brontes, Steropes and Arges.
Greece 1951 Hephaestus and industry plant .
Reconstruction of the industry and agriculture with the help of Marshal plans
Greece 1969 Hephaestus and Cyclops at the anvil. a detail of an old relief , for 50 years to the International Labour Organization (ILO)
Hephaestus and Cyclopes forging the shield of Achilles (marble)
Greco-Roman bas-relief marble, from the Pinacoteca Capitolina, Palazzo Conservatori, Rome, Italy. Watched by Athena on the left and Thetis or Hera on the right.
Paraguay 1970 Venus and Mars Surprised by Vulcan by Jacopo Tintoretto 1551-1552
Paraguay 1985 (both stamps) Venus and Cupid at the forge of vulcan by Rubens 1620 Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels
or Without Ceres and Bacchus Venus Would Freeze 1620 Mauritshuis, The Hague
The whole painting
Ajman 1972 Venus and Mars Surprised by Vulcan by
Jacopo Tintoretto 1551-1552
Norway 1980 Vulcan as a blacksmith on an oven plate from a cast iron , 1761 , of Hassel Jernverk (ironworks)
Ghana 2004 Vulcan's Forge by Luca Giordano (1634-1705), Hermitae Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, celebrating 300 years of St. Petersbutg
St Vincent 2001 Vulcan forging Jupiter's thunderbolt by Rubens
Greece 1927 Type 1
Temple of Hephaestus. Nestled within Ancient Agora, , built between 460 and 420 B.C.
Greece 1933 Type 3
Temple of Hephaestus. Nestled within Ancient Agora, , built between 460 and 420 B.C.