Adranus Adranus Adranus or Adranos (Greek: ) was a fire god worshipped by the Sicels, an ancient population of the island of Sicily. His worship occurred all over the island, but particularly in the town of Adranus, modern Adrano, near Mount Etna. Adranus himself was said to have lived under Mount Etna before being driven out by the Greek god Hephaestus, or Vulcan. According to Aelian, about a thousand sacred dogs were kept near his temple in this town. According to Hesychius, Adranus was said to have been the father of the Palici, born to Adranus's lover, the nymph Thalia. Some
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