Cedalion standing on the shoulders of Orion; detail from Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun by Nicolas Poussin, 1658, Oil on canvas; 46 7/8 x 72 in. (119.1 x 182.9 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art
In Greek mythology, Cedalion or Kedalion (Classical Greek Κηδαλίων) was a servant of Hephaestus in Lemnos. According to one tradition, he was Hephaestus's tutor, with whom Hera fostered her son on Naxos to teach him smithcraft.[1] Kerenyi compares him to the Cabeiri, to Chiron, and to Prometheus.[2]
^Eustathius of Thessalonica, first note on Ξ, 294; Kerenyi, Gods of the Greeks, p. 156 says it is also supported by Servius on Aeneid 10.763; there are several variant texts of Servius.
^Kerenyi, The Gods of the Greeks 1951:156, 177, 283.
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