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A statue of the god was somehow the god himself, and the image on a man's tomb indicated somehow his presence. This kind of art and the animistic belief goes back to the Minoan period, when Daedalus, the builder of the labyrinth, made images which moved of their own accord. The Greeks maintained in their civilization an animistic idea that statues are in some sense alive. He made the golden and silver lions and dogs at the entrance of the palace of Alkinoos in such a way that they could bite the invaders. The Greek myths and the Homeric poems sanctified in stories that Hephaestus had a special power to produce motion. Being a skilled blacksmith, Hephaestus created all the thrones in the Palace of Olympus. Hephaestus also created the gift that the gods gave to man, the woman Pandora and her pithos. In some versions of the myth, Prometheus stole the fire that he gave to man from Hephaestus's forge. He gave to the blinded Orion his apprentice Cedalion as a guide. This included tripods that walked to and from Mount Olympus. Hephaestus built automatons of metal to work for him. In later accounts, Hephaestus worked with the help of the Cyclopes-among them his assistants in the forge, Brontes, Steropes and Arges. He designed Hermes' winged helmet and sandals, the Aegis breastplate, Aphrodite's famed girdle, Agamemnon's staff of office, Achilles' armour, Diomedes' cuirass, Heracles' bronze clappers, Helios' chariot, the shoulder of Pelops, and Eros's bow and arrows. Hephaestus crafted much of the magnificent equipment of the gods, and almost any finely wrought metalwork imbued with powers that appears in Greek myth is said to have been forged by Hephaestus. Hephaestus had his own palace on Olympus, containing his workshop with anvil and twenty bellows that worked at his bidding. Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus by Anthony van Dyck (1630-1632)