百炼成钢 ;“鐵匠敲打他們的鐵砧就像在模仿力量之神原始的姿勢，他們實際上是祂的同仁。所有與土地的肥沃、冶金術及勞動有關的神話都是近代才出現的。冶金比陶器及農業更遲出現，冶金被視為一種神聖的技術。那時，天神仍然處在種植及小型遊獵時期，祂最終被力量之神驅逐。而力量之神就是有關種植的男性天神，祂是大地女神的丈夫。 ”
　《熔鐵爐及熔化鍋》— 艾良德

When striking their anvils smiths imitate the primordial getsture of the strong god ;they are in effect his accessories.All the mythology woven round agrain fertility,metallurgy and work is,moreover ,of relative recent origin.Of later date than pottery and agriculture,metallurgy is set in the framework of spiritual universe where the heavenly good,who was still present in the ethnological phases of food-gathering and small-game hunting ,is finally ousted by the strong God,the fertilizing Male,spouse of the terrestrial Greate Mother.
Mircea Eliade,"The Forge and the Crucible"