In Hesiod’s Pandora myth, which god shaped Pandora’s body from earth?

In Hesiod’s Pandora myth, Hephaestus shaped Pandora’s body from earth.

Hesiod presents Pandora as a divinely manufactured woman rather than someone born in the ordinary human way. Zeus orders Hephaestus, the god of fire and metalworking, to form her from earth. This creation scene parallels Hephaestus’s identity as a divine craftsman who makes armor, weapons, and other objects for the gods.

After Hephaestus forms Pandora, other deities add qualities and skills. Athena dresses and teaches her, Aphrodite gives her beauty, and Hermes gives her a deceptive voice and a trickster-like disposition. The result is a coordinated divine creation intended to affect humanity.

The story belongs to Hesiod’s explanation of why human life includes hardship. Zeus sends Pandora after Prometheus steals fire for humans. Her arrival leads to the opening of the storage jar that releases troubles. The myth is therefore both a creation story and an etiological explanation for suffering in the human world.