Vulcanus
Known to the Greeks as Hephaestus.
The god who presided over fire and who was the patron of those who worked in iron. According to Homer he was the son of Jupiter and Juno, and was so deformed that at his birth his mother threw him into the sea, where he remained nine years; but other writers differ from this opinion. He married Venus at the instigation of Jupiter.
He is known by the name of Mulciber. The Cyclopes were his attendants, and with them he forged the thunderbolts of Jupiter.