of craftsmen, games, arts, oaths, truth, and law Tlepsh, god of fire, smithing, metal, weapons and virility Ilmarinen, god of Blacksmithing and archetypal...
monsters. Gods of Chaos Gods of Doorways and Thresholds Gods of the Night Queen of Heaven Gods of SmithingGods of wine and beer / Goddess Gods of poppy...
metals. Smithing is one of the oldest metalworking occupations. Shaping metal with a hammer (forging) is the archetypical component of smithing. Often...
reason for it). 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...
the metalsmith of the Tuatha Dé Danann. He is believed to have been a smithing god and is also associated with hospitality. His name is related to the...
year 1114. In this translation, in glosses, the Greek god of fire and smithing Hephaestus is translated as Svarog, and his son, the sun god Helios, is...
these parts of the Rigveda mention individual creator gods as opposed to the collection of gods and their chiefs (Indra, Varuna, Agni, etc.) creating...
consists of an array of manifestations; most carry the aspect of iron smithing and tools from the Yoruba tradition. The Ogou guard the badji, the sacred...
outstretched wings; scene from the Joseph Smith Hypocephalus Sokar (Stargate) The Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses, George Hart ISBN 0-415-34495-6...
word Kalvaitis derives from the word Kalvis meaning smith. In modern Lithuanian kalvis means black smith with the word being a derivative of the word kalti...
In Germanic mythology, Wayland the Smith (Old English: Wēland; Old Norse: Vǫlundr [ˈvɔlundr̩], Velent [ˈvelent]; Old Frisian: Wela(n)du; German: Wieland...
and, less often today, as a sun god. Thus, equating Lugh with the Roman gods Jupiter or Sol, respectively. Others have noted a similarity in Lugh's slaying...
of fire, nature, fertility, rivers and the earth Sethlans, fire god of smithing and crafts Śuri, fire god and chthonic light god, with powers over health...
Shabaka Stone, from the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty, says Ptah "gave life to all the gods and their kas as well, through this heart and this tongue." He bears many...
of the text originally described his visits to the cult centers of others gods, as a fragment mentions Enlil and his temple Ekur, where Gibil apparently...
principal gods of the Greek pantheon and so named because of their residency atop Mount Olympus. They gained their supremacy in a ten-year-long war of gods, in...
brothers Creidhne and Goibniu were known as the Trí Dée Dána, the three gods of art, who forged the weapons which the Tuatha Dé used to battle the Fomorians...
magic cow of plenty, channels for rivers, and tools for Indra and other gods, which makes many envious. In later Hindu mythology, the Ribhus are born...
UK. ISBN 978-81-8475-763-7. Macdonell, Arthur Anthony (1897). "Abstract Gods". In Bühler, G. (ed.). Vedic Mythology. Oxford University Press. pp. 116–118...
desolation. Humanity had died and the heavens were over the Earth. When the gods saw that the heavens had fallen, they resolved to reach the center of the...
Amsterdam–New York: Rodopi, 2008, pp. 35-53. Fee, Christopher R. (2001). Gods, Heroes & Kings. Oxford University Press US. p. 68. ISBN 0-19-517403-8. Koch...
(or Gobannos, the Gaulish form, sometimes Cobannus) was a Gallo-Roman smithing god. A number of statues dedicated to him are preserved, found together...
dedicates this keliknon (small temple?) to Ucuetis - together with the smiths, who (worship) Ucuetis in Alesia. Maier, Bernhard, 1963- (1997). Dictionary...
pre-Islamic South Arabia. Based on etymology, Qaynān may have been the god of smiths. Bob Becking. "Kenan". Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible. p...