In Hesiod’s myth of Pandora, Hephaestus created the woman from earth and water.
Hephaestus was the Olympian smith and craftsman, so the creation scene fits his mythological role. In Hesiod’s account, Zeus ordered him to form Pandora, after which other gods contributed qualities and gifts.
The story is not identical in every ancient source. Hesiod’s Works and Days gives the fullest surviving account, while the Theogony refers to Pandora but provides fewer details about the episode. Later writers and artists expanded the creation scene in different ways.
Pandora is therefore not usually described as being born in the ordinary divine manner. She is fashioned as part of Zeus’s plan after Prometheus gives fire to humanity, making her creation a deliberate mythological event.