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Published: 2004-12-25 22:06:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 671; Favourites: 8; Downloads: 25
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Description Hephestus, the god of the forge- stopped carving swords a long time ago.
As the gear changes so does the patron god's face with the undertone of a testimony
to exactly how focused Hephestus be...

See: he makes missles and circut boards, super computers with nitrogen cooled cores
he whispers bullets, spits bayonettes, percolates and cultures viruses like vultures circling
He's got sealed test-tubes in rows
football fields long
that contain such potential horror
Even Pluto says
"That's just wrong..."
He used to pour coal and pump bellows, but now
he regulates a nuclear plant the size of which could slag a continent
and with that heat that he commands like a brush in a masters grasp
he wraps the paths for electrons to follow purposefully and patiently
in every copper wire he weaves from the atoms up.

Hephustus of the forge
be it a bow, bullet, bomb, or tricky little string of DNA
none can outcraft this artist's ability with killing wares

He put his hammers down
for better sets of tools to use, and as the gear changed so too
did the face of its God.
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Comments: 12

KisaMogwai [2005-03-08 07:52:58 +0000 UTC]

wow.. i love the artist's commentary on this..

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revscrj In reply to KisaMogwai [2014-04-08 05:02:22 +0000 UTC]

Nearly 10 years later: Β Awww thanks!

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KisaMogwai In reply to revscrj [2014-06-15 01:12:35 +0000 UTC]

just re-read it and am so glad i did...it really is so rad...

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revscrj In reply to KisaMogwai [2014-07-12 04:13:46 +0000 UTC]

So did I, lol, and I like it too. Β Is it wrong to make art for one's love of one's art? Β 'Wrong' is the wrong word, 'narcisistic'?

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moksha--- [2004-12-27 18:34:18 +0000 UTC]

isnt that cute how all those 's crack up together..
:yellowalien:

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moksha--- [2004-12-27 18:33:23 +0000 UTC]

it looks lik front view of a revolver to me.. unless that is what it is..
and i like the description a lot!!
and i think ill stick to shakespearean greek idealogy of gods.. iris and such.. ( pls dont giggle on that)
but looks good ... and sexy new avatar..
merry krismas... ( whatever that may bring forth.. and likewise.. im trying not to sound dumb ..its my new year look.. )

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revscrj In reply to moksha--- [2005-01-10 07:00:00 +0000 UTC]

-actually the gun barrel is perfect, but I was going more for a techno-cyclops/fire giant thing.

>and sexy new avatar

Oh you are just trying to make me blush arent you?

> whatever that may bring forth

-my son from portland, otherwise christmass would really piss me off were I xian, but I am gnostic so I get a little bothered by the 'goodwill' being reserved for one season so that the others can have less.

-you dont sound dumb, btw

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-jezabel- [2004-12-27 06:07:18 +0000 UTC]

Awesome Idea. I love the incorporation of old and new.
The description in great too and really ties the whole thing together.
Lovely work!

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revscrj In reply to -jezabel- [2004-12-27 06:53:46 +0000 UTC]

Many thanks. The reconsideration of old mythology is something I really enjoy doing ever since I read Joseph Cambel's 'Myths to live by' when I was like 16 or so. Roughly the case made by the bookl is that yes myths are 'not true' but that they are viatal to have as a culture and species for the forming of ethics and morals as well as determining metaphors the individual will have for life as a whole- critical stuff for things that are 'not true'

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LordOfSenses [2004-12-25 23:48:24 +0000 UTC]

It's honestly just really creepy looking. Aside from Apollo, Heph was my faverout of the greek gods. In many ways, they're both artists, it's just that the art of Hephestus is not for beauty of life, but the beauty of destruction.
Merry Christmas!

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revscrj In reply to LordOfSenses [2004-12-26 10:32:09 +0000 UTC]

- and a merry xmass to you as well.

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revscrj In reply to LordOfSenses [2004-12-26 10:31:24 +0000 UTC]

I agree, to further that: you will note the character differences are quite on the money as well- Heph usually depicted as the ceaseless hammerer, totally posesed by his very-much-an-art of make the impliments of killing and Apol as more dimensional, of a higher degree of character and range of potential action than Heph. Their are arts that are of a nature that require the utter singular focus fom the of dedication to the point that sacrifice of the facets of being the practioner will ever manifest are made. "War" and its associated arts- from R and D genetics for bioweaponry to marksmanship- are arts that kind. Arts that are the willful but unavoidable state of Being in the being's expression do not require that, as they are directed at growth- they are life arts, and breed a different sort of artist, Apollos vs. Hephestuses; Painters vs. Snipers. Its interesting how long we have had that metaphor as a trait of the species

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