Why is the quail a suitable emblem for hephaestus

Hephaestus was unique among the gods as being physically disabled and not particularly attractive. He was also unique for his identification with a real-world profession held by the working class instead of the nobility.

Images of Hephaestus reflected his unusual status on Olympus through more than just his personal appearance. While other gods had powerful or impressive symbols and animals, Hephaestus was shown like a true smith.

Even his clothing was more simple, a common tunic instead of the intricately draped robes of Zeus or Poseidon. Holding a hammer and tongs and riding on the back of a braying donkey, Hephaestus stood out among the regal and rich gods of Olympus. Among them, he looked like an average commoner instead of a fellow god.

Hephaestus was the smith god , and his symbols reflected his work. While usually associated with blacksmiths and metalworkers, Hephaestus was the god of all craftsmen.

Carpenters, masons, and inventors looked to Hephaestus just as those who worked with metal did. Thus, while the god was most often depicted with tools of metalworking, images in some contexts referred to other crafts. Most common, however, were the hammer and tongs of a smith. These tools were used to work with iron and bronze, but Hephaestus also made masterworks of precious metals and unbreakable materials.

Although sometimes shown as a vigorous young man with a beard, most myths described the smith as lame and sometimes as physically deformed. Artists sometimes included a stick that would have helped the limping god move. Although not shown in art, in some literature Hephaestus had an even greater mobility aid. He was credited with inventing a type of wheelchair and in the Iliad he created twenty wheeled tripod automatons to help him.

One temple of Hephaestus was said to have exceptionally intelligent and good-natured guard dogs, but these animals were rarely shown in broader iconography. His sacred bird was the crane. That saddle was on a beast that was unusual for an Olympian. Instead of a noble horse or fantastic beast, Hephaestus rode a simple donkey. The modest mount was so closely associated with him that it was included in many of his appearances in written mythology.

Hephaestus also created the gift that the gods gave to man, the woman Pandora and her pithos. Being a skilled blacksmith, Hephaestus created all the thrones in the Palace of Olympus. As the son of Zeus, the king of the gods, and Hera, the queen of the gods, Hephaestus should have been quite handsome, but, baby Hephaestus was small and ugly with a red, bawling face. Hera was so horrified that she hurled the tiny baby off the top of Mount Olympus.

Hephaestus fell down for a day and landing in the sea. Thetis, found him and took him to her underwater grotto, and raised him as her own son. Hephaestus had a happy childhood with dolphins as his playmates and pearls as his toys. Late in his childhood, he found the remains of a fisherman's fire on the beach and became fascinated with an unextinguished coal, still red-hot and glowing. One day, Thetis left her underwater grotto to attend a dinner party on Mount Olympus wearing a beautiful necklace of silver and sapphires, which Hephaestus had made for her.

Hera admired the necklace and asked her where she could get one. Thetis became flustered causing Hera to become suspicious and, at last, the queen god discovered the truth: the baby she had once rejected had grown into a talented blacksmith. Hera was furious and demanded Hephaestus return home, a demand that he refused. However he did send Hera a beautifully constructed chair made of silver and gold, inlaid with mother-of-pearl. Hera was delighted with this gift but, as soon as she sat in it her weight triggered hidden springs and metal bands sprung forth to hold her fast.

The more she shrieked and struggled the more firmly the mechanical throne gripped her; the chair was a cleverly designed trap. For three days Hera sat fuming, still trapped in Hephaestus's chair, she could not sleep, she could not stretch, she could not eat. Zeus pleaded with Hephaestus to dislodge Hera, but he steadfastly refused. Dionysus finally brought him back, by getting Hephaestus drunk, and carrying him to Olympus on a donkey. Then on the condition Aphrodite would be given to Hephaestus as his wife, Hera was freed.

Hephaestus and Aphrodite had an arranged marriage, and Aphrodite, disliking the idea of being married to the unsightly Hephaestus, began an affair with Ares, the god of war. While Aphrodite and Ares lay together in bed, Hephaestus ensnared them in an unbreakable chain-link net so small as to be invisible and dragged them to Mount Olympus to shame them in front of the other gods for retribution.

Hephaestus states in the Odyssey that he would return Aphrodite to her father and demand back his bride price. The Thebans told that the union of Ares and Aphrodite produced Harmonia. However, of the union of Hephaestus with Aphrodite, there was no issue unless Virgil was serious when he said that Eros was their child. Later authors explain this statement by saying the love-god was sired by Ares but passed off to Hephaestus as his own son. Hephaestus was somehow connected with the archaic, pre-Greek Phrygian and Thracian mystery cult of the Kabeiroi, who were also called the Hephaistoi, "the Hephaestus-men," in Lemnos.

Like this but our has 2 back and one side panel. Quail not just the females! I have has quail grow up and spend months together and then suddenly take against one another and attack viciously. I had a group of 6 females and a male and the male just suddenly hated one of the girls and almost blinded her one day. Separated them, allowed her to heal, re-introduced and absolutely the same thing.

Never got them back together and had to permanently separate them with her having a friend in with her. Have also had girls just go stroppy and attack all the others.

Males making the girls threadbare due to being randy is very different to aggression. If there is blood then it is generally out and out aggression and I have never managed to end this. In this case I separate permanently or kill the aggressor. Very nice for tea they are too! One other issue is feather pecking which is generally on the bum but can be stopped with anti peck spray daily for the rest of their life if you have the energy!

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface but always paddling like the dickens underneath. It was a male on 2 female aggressive attack as there was plenty of bare flesh and blood. They were from the same brood and about 8 weeks old.

Think I know what triggered it off though. I have 7 mature female Italian quail laying who are in a cage opposite the Japanese quail. I noticed last night that as the sun was setting all the birds in the area, blackbirds especially were calling to each other. This set off the Italian quail and then the male Japanese quail who is now in a cage in a shed started calling.

First time I have heard him do this. Think that he got excited with the mature quail calling and tried to mate with his room mates. They haven't started laying yet and probably didn't like his advances.

Luckily I managed to separate them before he attacked all three. They are all still alive and the most injured one has improved on yesterday. They are in a cat carrier in a spare bedroom with the heating turned off so they won't have too much of a shock when they are recovered and back outside.

Fingers crossed. Couple of pictures of the 2 injured birds, not a pretty sight. Even seen a pair of squirrels in our garden. Only ever seen one at a time before!