[font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Hephaestus was the only ugly god among perfectly beautiful immortals. He was the son of Zeus and Hera. [/font][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Hephaestus was born deformed and was cast out of heaven by one or both of his parents when they noticed that he was imperfect. I[/font][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]n most accounts, Aphrodite is named as his wife, although she was unfaithful to him (with Ares, for one). Theirs was an arranged marriage by Zeus himself to stop the fighting over Aphrodite by the other male Gods.[/font]
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[font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The ugliness of Hephaestus was sufficient for Hera to immediately reject the baby, and so the Greek goddess was said to have thrown her child off of Mount Olympus, and after a long fall, Hephaestus fell into the sea near to the island of Lemnos.[/font]
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His own mother threw him down to the earth because of his ugliness. He was treated like filth by his own mother because of his deformities. Hephaestus had no place in this world of perfect beings.
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[font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The ugliness of Hephaestus was sufficient for Hera to immediately reject the baby, and so the Greek goddess was said to have thrown her child off of Mount Olympus, and after a long fall, Hephaestus fell into the sea near to the island of Lemnos.[/font]
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His own mother threw him down to the earth because of his ugliness. He was treated like filth by his own mother because of his deformities. Hephaestus had no place in this world of perfect beings.
