Hephaistos

In Greek mythology, Hephaistos was a master smith who was the god of fire and the patron of craftsmen. He was always represented as lame. Homer's Iliad includes two different accounts of his lameness. According to one story, Zeus quarreled with Hephaistos's mother, Hera, and flung him down from Olympus to the island of Lemnos for siding with her in a quarrel. According to the other, Hephaestos was born lame, and Hera, disgusted by his lameness, flung him from Olympus. A matchless artisan, Hephaistos took revenge on Hera by fashioning a golden throne that bound her fast. He also made armor for Achilles and an invisible net that enmeshed Hephaistos's faithless wife, Aphrodite, and her lover Ares. In Roman mythology, Hephaistos was identified with Vulcan.