Hephæstus

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Hephæstus

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archaic Archaic spelling of Hephaestus I have adopted, not without hesitation, the Latin, rather than the Greek, nomenclature for the Heathen Deities. I have been induced to do so from the manifest incongruity of confounding the two; and from the fact that though English readers may be familiar with the names of Zeus, or Aphrodite, or ev

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@misc{heph_stus_2026,
  title = {Hephæstus},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/heph%C3%A6stus},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}