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unusual facts about Hephaistos



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Cedalion

Pearson, (1917) II, 9; for the fostering, he cites Ahrens, for the satyrs, Wilamowitz GGN =Nachrichten der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen Philological-historical section 1895:237, which is "Hephaistos" in Wilamowitz's Kleine Schiften V.2 pp.5-35; but Pearson finds both doubtful.

Egyptus

This is significant since Ptah is a parallel for Noah in that, as the Blacksmith-God of Thebes (Hephaistos-Vulcan), he is the equivalent of the Phoenician Craftsman-God Khousor, which is Ugaritic Kṯr, Kothar, Kothar-wa-Khasis, "The-Very-Skillful-and-Intelligent-One," which is the same character as the Sumero-Akkadian Noahs: Utnapishtim (in the Gilgamesh Epic), Atra-Ḫasīs, and Ziusudra (Khousor = Ptah at Ugarit).


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