Curiosity and legends about Etna

Etna was known in the greek-roman age as Aetna, a name that was also attributed to the city of Catania, taken perhaps from the Greek word aitho (to burn). The Arabs called the mountain Jabal al-Jabal or Burkan Atma Ṣiqilliyya (volcano or mountain summit of Sicily); this name was later changed into Mons Gibel to indicate the mountain Gibel, and subsequently, during the Middle Age, became Mongibello. People who live near the volcano, call Etna “A Muntagna” (the Mountain) in all its simplicity. Today the name Mongibello indicates the top of Etna: the area of the two central craters, the south-eastern crater and the north-eastern one. The regular and spectacular eruptions, often dramatic, made the volcano the subject of great curiosity in classical mythological and folk beliefs; attempts to explain the volcano’s behaviour were made in religion, where gods and giants of Roman and Greek legends were believed to control the volcano.
Here are some of the religious based theories that were popular in the past.
Firstly, Aeolus, the king of the winds, who is said to have imprisoned the winds in the caves of Etna. According to the poet Aeschylus, the giant Typhon was confined to the Etna walls and this is cause of the eruptions.
Another theory is the wrath of the giant, Enceladus, who rebelled against the gods, was killed and burnt in Etna.
Another legend is that of Hephaestus or Vulcan, the god of fire and metallurgy and gods’ blacksmith. It is said, he kept his forge beneath Mount Etna, and he tamed Adranus, the demon of fire, and to drive him from the mountain.