Galatea. She was the statue whom Aphrodite breathed life in as a reward to her sculptor Pygmalion.
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He actually came from Greek mythology and was the god of desire.
What we today call Greek Mythology came from the ancient peoples of the Mediterranean. Most other mythology comes to us from cultures who did not record their religion nearly so long or detailed a way.
The word volcano more likely came from ROMAN mythology, not Greek, because the Roman god of fire and volcanoes was called Vulcan.
The Celts and the Greeks are both derived from the Indo-European peoples. I'm sure some of the basic stories that are related in each mythology come from their relative past, but the developed, Greek Mythology came first.
Greek mythology came first. Then the Romans came. They admired the gods and goddesses of the Greeks and copied. The Roman gods and goddesses and more disciplined and war-like. Because Greek and Roman mythology things can't have the same name, Romans changed the names.