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"For without you [Hestia] mortals hold no banquet."
Homeric Hymn 24 to #Hestia

"Swine with the fat abundant upon them were singed and stretched out across the flame of #Hephaistos."
Homer, Iliad 9.467

As the hearth of a house is at the same time the altar on which sacrifices are offered to the domestic gods, Hestia presides over all sacrifices, and, as the goddess of the sacred fire of the altar, she gets a share of every sacrifice to the gods made at home or in their temples.

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