Hades+(1)

 Welcome to the Hades page!  Here, you will learn all about Hades. 

 Hades, sometimes known as Pluto, is not one of the twelve major gods of Mount Olympus, but he still plays an important role in Greek Mythology. He is the son of Cronus and Rhea, the Brother of Hestia, Poseidon, Demeter, Hera, and Zeus, and husband of Persephone.

 Hades lives in the gloomy underworld, accompanied only by his wife, Persephone, and the souls of the dead. He has the ability to summon the souls of the dead, and was always thought of as the cruel leader of the Greek underworld. He was granted with a cape of invisibility, giving him special powers.

 Very few people know that Hades was not banished to the underworld. Hades, Zeus, and Poseidon drew straws to choose who ruled what. Poseidon won the sea, Zeus won the sky, and Hades won the underworld.

 Hades played a very important part in Greek mythology due to his contribution to the afterlife.



The myth I found was Persephone, and it takes place in the underworld and the mortal world. The main characters are Persephone, Queen of the underworld, Hades, King of the underworld, and Demeter, Goddess of harvest and grain. Persephone is picking flowers and comes apron a beautiful narcissus. Although she needs to go home, she runs to get the last flower. While bending down to pick it up, she was grabbed by Hades and brought to the underworld to be his queen. She was to depressed to eat or drink anything, which was good, because if you eat the food of the dead it means you have to stay in the underworld forever. When the news arrives that Persephone may leave the underworld, she is extremely joyous. However, Hades is told by Zeus to make Persephone eat one pomegranate seed, but in all the excitement, Persephone eats four seeds, and is forced to visit Hades for four months of the year. During those four months, Demeter mourns for her daughter, and the Earth is cold, for what we now call winter.

http://greece.mrdonn.org/greekgods/demeter.html

Hades
 * 1) Husband of Persephone
 * 2) Brother of Zeus
 * 3) The god of wealth and the underworld
 * 4) Has a helmet that makes him invisible
 * 5) Symbol is a horn of plenty (cornucopia)
 * 6) Tricked Persephone into eating four pomegranate seeds so she could stay in the underworld
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Son of Cronus and Rhea
 * 8) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Plays an important role in the myth of Persephone
 * 9) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He, Zeus, and Poseidon drew straws to see who would rule what
 * 10) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hades was a passive figure in the process of death

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Hades has little impact on modern society, but many ideas of heaven and hell are traced back to him. Hades is very well known, due to his large role in Greek mythology, but few things are named after him.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-Tamar In the link to the Persephone myth, it tells that Persephone ate 6 pomegranate seeds. This is a different version than I have heard. In many versions of the myth, Persephone eats 4 seeds and is forced to stay in the underworld for four months
 * Two quick notes,

Sorry my works cited looks weird. I had to copy and paste from the website I used.