In Hesiod’s Theogony, Hephaestus is ordered to fashion Pandora from earth.
Hephaestus is the Olympian god associated with metalworking, fire, craftsmanship, and the making of divine objects. In the creation story, Zeus commands him to shape a woman from earth. Other gods then contribute qualities, adornments, or skills, producing the figure named Pandora, “all-gifted.”
The fullest surviving version of the creation episode is in Hesiod’s Works and Days, while the Theogony also refers to Pandora and the punishment connected with Prometheus. Because the two poems are ancient and related, summaries sometimes blend their details together. The specific image of Hephaestus molding Pandora belongs to the divine-craft aspect of the myth.
Pandora’s making is not presented as an independent origin story for humanity. Hesiod frames it as part of Zeus’s response to Prometheus’s theft of fire. That context explains why the myth gives Pandora both attractive divine gifts and a role in bringing hardship to mortals.