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delight, and he was thought to owe his gifts to
supernatural beings around whom many legends grew.
There were creatures called Dactyls, smelters of bronze;
Curetes and Corybantes, armorers; Cabeiroi, who were
skilful smiths; Telchines, gifted workers in gold, silver and
bronze who made weapons for gods and the earliest
statues; and lastly the mighty Cyclopes forging the bolts
of Zeus. All these are vague giants, goblins and godlings—
patron saints of the workshop and the forge whom you
might do well to appease and some of whose names just
meant “Fingers”, “Hammer”, “Tongs”, and “Anvil”. Then,
by the time that the Homeric epic began to take form,
one of these beings seems to have grown in stature until
he attained Olympian rank.
Embossing, and chasing, and engraving “on gold, silver,