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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Fire goddesses, Fire gods, Hephaestus, Vesta, Hestia, Brigid, Xolotl, Belenus, Coatlicue, Agni, Mixcoatl, Manco Capac, Xiuhtecuhtli, Huracan, Ogoun, Caca, Belisama, Oya, Tohil, Nusku, Cacus, Grannus, Nantosuelta, Stata Mater, Perun, Wadjet, Matka Gabia, Oynyena Maria, Vulcan, Pele, Kitchen God, Kresnik, Makara Jyothi, Fire worship, Svarog, Jacawitz, Gabija, K jin, Aganju, Kagu-tsuchi, Zhu Rong, Apris, Mahuika, Adranus, Peklenc, Ayao, Verbti, Chantico, Sethlans, Fornax, Eate, Tatewari, Gibil, Ishum, Gerra. Excerpt: Vulcan (Latin: Vulcanus), aka Mulciber, is the god of beneficial and hindering fire, including the fire of volcanoes in ancient Roman religion and Roman Neopaganism. Vulcan is usually depicted with a thunderbolt. He is known as Sethlans in Etruscan mythology. He was worshipped at an annual festival on August 23 known as the Volcanalia. The god belongs to the most ancient stage of Roman religion: Varro citing the Annales Maximi, recalls that king Titus Tatius had dedicated altars to a series of deities among which Vulcan is mentioned. Vulcan was identified with the Greek god of fire and smithery, Hephaestus. The origin of the name is unclear and debated. Roman tradition maintained that it was related to Latin words connected to lightning (fulgur, fulgere, fulmen), which in turn was thought of as related to flames. This interpretation is supported by Walter William Skeat in his etymological dictionary as meaning lustre. It has been supposed that his name was not Latin but related to that of the Cretean god Velchanos, a god of nature and the nether world. Wolfgang Meid has refused this identification as phantastic. More recently this etymology has been taken up by G. Capdeville who finds a continuity between Cretean Minoan god Velchanos and Etruscan Velchans. The Minoan god's identity would that of a young de...
