Prayer to Athena and Hephaistos for Skillful Hands

To grey-eyed Athena and strong-armed Hephaistos

I pray! Gods of skill, gods of craft, great friends you are

to artisans, to those who work with mind and hand,

to those who with the artist’s eye create things

of use as well as beauty. In times of old

were you well honored for your gifts to mankind:

Athena the Worker, Hephaistos the Resourceful,

named so by men grateful for your many blessings.

I pray to you, great goddess and god: grant to me

the vision to create, grant me the ability

to bring those visions into being. Athena,

Hephaistos, grant to me the joy of the work.