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Today Klaus Kickenklober as...

Series 6 Post 17: God of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes.

🌸 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. 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 built automatons of metal to work for him or others. This included tripods with golden wheels, able to move at his wish in and out the assembly hall of the celestials; and servant "handmaidens wrought of gold in the semblance of living maids", in them was "understanding in their hearts, and speech and strength", gift of the gods. They moved to support Hephaestus while walking.

🌸 Some versions of the myth state that Zeus did not return the dowry, and in fact Aphrodite "simply charmed her way back again into her husband’s good graces." In the Iliad, Hephaestus is presented as divorced from Aphrodite, and now married to the Grace Aglaea. In the Theogony, Aglaea is presented as Hephaestus' mate with no apparent mention of any marriage to Aphrodite.

🌸 Hephaestus is to the male gods as Athena is to the female, for he gives skill to mortal artists and was believed to have taught men the arts alongside Athena. At Athens, they had temples and festivals in common. Both were believed to have great healing powers, and Lemnian earth from the spot on which Hephaestus had fallen was believed to cure madness, the bites of snakes, and haemorrhage; and priests of Hephaestus knew how to cure wounds inflicted by snakes.

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When Klaus started dancing he was still a seven-year-old boy and, it can be said, that his life always faces him on tiptoe.

From the age of 13/25 his orange mantle and his elegance were the emblem of a young man who had just blossomed, his temperance and character was immense and together with his skill was the envy and pride of dance school he attended.❤❤❤

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Series 5 post 14: Considered by his fellows to be the perfect specimen of Nasica, Klaus is extremely proud of his body.

The perfect container that lets itself be manipulated by art, letting its soul rise and reveal itself to others with soft, elegant, fascinating, supple and harmonious movements.

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Series 2 post 14: Neither I nor, especially him, see each other on tiptoe! I'm loving drawing Klaus ✨❤❤

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We had the opportunity to admire a now adult Klaus but, of his past and love and passion for dance, nothing is known.

So I thought I'd start a couple of drawings that portray him as a teenager and as a young man.

This first portrays him from the age of 25 to 35 where his coat begins to lighten and become decidedly more adult.

His love and fatigue further outlines his face and a smile paints that skin now marked by incessant extra training in anticipation of yet another show where he is the star. ❤❤❤

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“𝑪𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓...𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒆 𝒃𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕!”

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