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Vulcan in Roman religion and mythology, fire god. Chiefly a god of destructive fire, Vulcan seems to have originated as a god of volcanoes. His festival, the Volcanalia, was held on Aug. 23. He was later identified with the Greek Hephaestus .

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Vulcan1 in Roman mythology, the god of fire; equivalent of the Greek Hephaestus. His lameness, and his betrayal by his wife Venus for Mars, are both subjects for literary allusion; he is also taken as the type of a blacksmith or metalworker.
Vulcanist a supporter of the theory (now accepted) that rocks such as granite were formed by solidification from the molten state, as proposed by the Scottish geologist James Hutton and others, rather than by precipitation from the sea.

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Hephaestus in Greek mythology, the god of fire and of craftsmen, son of Zeus and Hera, and husband of Aphrodite. He was a divine metalworker who was lame as the result of having interfered in a quarrel between his parents. His Roman equivalent is Vulcan.

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