Hephaestus make love to Athena: at the moment of climax she pushes him aside, and his semen falls to the earth where it impregnates Gaia." Hephaestus was associated by Greek colonists in southern Italy with the volcano gods Adranus (of Mount Etna) and Vulcanus of the Lipari islands. The first-century sage Apollonius of Tyana is said to have observed, "there are many other mountains all over the earth that are on fire, and yet we should never be done with it if we assigned to them giants and gods like Hephaestus". In the Trojan war, Hephaestus sided with the Greeks, but
How The First Helandman of God Was Maid piece is attributed to no author. The poem opens with God and Saint Peter walking "High up in Argyll, where their path lay." Peter asks The Lord "Can you not make a Highland man out of this horse turd?" With a touch of his staff God creates a Highlander from the piece of dung and asks him "Where do you want to go?" The highlander replies that he will go to the lowlands to steal livestock. When God points out to the highlander that he will be hanged for this crime the man claims to be indifferent. "I must die