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The god of fire, was, according to the Homeric account,
the son of Zeus and Hera. (Il. i. 578, xiv. 338, xviii. 396, xxi. 332,
Od. viii. 312.) Later traditions state that he had no father, and that
Hera gave birth to him independent of Zeus, as she was jealous of Zeus
having given birth to Athena independent of her. (Apollod. i. 3. § 5;
Hygin. Fab. Praef.) This, however, is opposed to the common story,
that Hephaestus split the head of Zeus, and thus assisted him in giving
birth to Athena, for Hephaestus is there represented as older than
Athena. A further development of the later tradition is, that
Hephaestus sprang from the thigh of Hera, and, being for a long time
kept in ignorance of his parentage, he at length had recourse to a
stratagem, for the purpose of finding it out.
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