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About William C. Uchtman
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I have done research into gods and goddesses and have written brief descriptions of them. I have attempted to scale out family trees as I have already seen with the Olympian gods. I have tried to condense entire pantheons by attributing extra names or aliases to one deity. I have also made efforts to parallel myths with ancient history. I am not an expert nor do I hold any degrees. I am a self-taught person with a lot of otherwise useless information.

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Mythology - greek olympian gods symbols

Expert: William C. Uchtman - 10/23/2009

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I need to do a project on Olympian gods, and I am doing my research on Hephaestus. We are supposed to find their symbols and their meanings. So far, I've found multiple results, but the most common ones that many sites all have is the axe and fire.But none of them provide meanings of the symbols If you can confirm that that those are infact the symbols, would be great,and most important of all, I need to know the meanings of the symbols.

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Here's a list of symbols as best as I can recall:

Zeus - thunderbolt
Hera - peacock
Poseidon - trident
Demeter - grain
Hades - no symbol
Persephone - flowers

Hercules - lion
Apollo - sun
Artemis - moon
Athena - owl
Ares - wolves
Aphrodite - doves
Hephaestus - fire
Hermes - talaria/winged sandals

If you want to know more than that, get back in touch with me and I'll gladly help.

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