Word: hephaestus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people have had the healthy animation and the sensitive and earnest imagination of the Greeks. Nature held for them a kind of religious ecstasy: the mountain, the water, and the wood were peopled with divinities. There was Athena, queen of the air; there was Poseidon, god of the sea; Hephaestus, god of fire; Hermes, messenger and herald of the gods. Alas, that such a way of looking at nature should ever pass away...