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
Hephaestus, Egypt Roman Catholic titular see. Hephaestus, Egypt Hephæstus was a town in Roman Egypt, in the province of Augustamnica Prima, the eastern part of the Nile Delta. The name Hephæstus is known only from ecclesiastical sources; its Egyptian name and its site are unknown. The original diocese was in Augustamnica Prima, a suffragan of Pelusium. It is mentioned by Hierocles and by George of Cyprus, as among the thirteen towns of Augustamnica Prima. Lequien mentions only two bishops: John, who took part in two Councils of Ephesus (First, 431 and Second, 449), and Peter, present at the Council of Constantinople in