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 __  Hades __ // **God of the Underworld** //  **Hades:** It is said that Hades means "invisible" or "unseen". This is because when a person dies, they go to the underworld and are never seen again. Other names he is known for and called by are: Pluto (his Roman God equivalent), Good Counselor, Zeus of the Underworld, Aedoneus, Orcus, and Dis. He was a very greedy god, and was one of the richest. He teaches mortals to be quiet at times and listen to our inner voices to decide what is right and what is wrong. In addition to being the god of the underworld, he is also considered to be the god of the wealth of the earth. The wealths include rich, fertile soil to the mined wealth of jewels, gold, silver and other metal.
 * < The Symbols of Hades, God of the Underworld ||
 * < * Underground Water
 * Shadows
 * Helmet
 * Jewels, gems
 * Planet Pluto ||< * Treasure Chest
 * Gold and Silver
 * Cerberus (three headed dog)
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">Mint
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">Black Horses ||

**<span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">Hades' Family: ** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Hades belongs to the first generation of the olympians. He is the son [|Cronus], the Titan ruler, and [|Rhea]. Hades was swallowed at birth by his father, Cronus, along with his siblings: Posiden, Hera , [|Hestia] and [|Demeter]. Cronus felt this was nescesary because he wanted to prevent the prophecy that one of his children would one day replace him on his throne. His younger brother, Zeus, was not swallowed and was protected by their mother and years later, he made Cronus spit up all of his siblings. The three brothers were challenged to fight other gods for power in the Titanomachy. They were each given a weapon, Zeus received a thunderbolt, Hades gained the cap of invisibility and Posiden received the trident. The war lasted 10 years, the three brothers fought which resulted in victory. Due to this, each brother was given a portion of the universe. Zeus was given the sky, Posiden was given the sea and Hades was given the underworld. Hades didn't spend much time with his siblings and preferred being alone to think by himself, which made sense about choosing him to rule the underworld because he would be alone for most of the time. <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 19px; color: rgb(128,0,0); line-height: 27px;">**Hades' Love:** Zeus had promised Hades to have [|Persephone], the daughter of his siblings, Zeus and Demeter as his bride. Zeus did not metion this arrangement to either Demeter or Persephone, so she did not willingly marry him. He abducted her w   hen she was picking flowers with friends. Demeter missed her daughter and cast a curse so that a famine spread all over the land. Zeus agreed into sending Hermes to go and rescue his daughter from the underworld, but before he had the chance to, Hades tricked Persephone into eating a pomegranate. Even though she knew that anyone who ate while in the underworld would never be able to return to earth, she went ahead and ate half of the pomegranate seeds. Hermes was able to make a compromise between Demeter and Hades so that Persephone would spend half of the year in the underworld and half of the year on earth. The time spent in the underworld, it is very cold and no crops can grow because   <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Demeter is angry, which causes fall and winter. When she returns to her mother, the opposite occurs creating spring and summer. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> **<span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(128,0,0);">Hades' Underworld: ** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 110%;">Hades had a large responsibility, to control the Underworld. He has to <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 110%;"> make sure all who have died have a successful transition from the world into the after life, that no one escapes. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> The Underworld is an underground kingdom where all the spirits of those who died, slept and dreamed, or were banished from the earth, lived. Tartarus, a place of misery where political prisoners and the most outrageous criminals were sent to receive never ending punishments. But the underworld wasn't all bad, there was also a place called Elysian Fields, for those who were heroic or noble would go for their reward after death. The admission to get into the Underworld was one coin to pay the ferryman, [|Charon], to take the spirit across the river, [|Styx] , that separated the earth from the Underworld. Without the coin, the spirit would not be allowed to enter and it would wander the earth for more than one-hundred years. Everyone was granted three chances to be reborn after living in the Underworld and try to make it to the Elysian Fields after their next death.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> ** Hades' Dog: ** [|Cerberus] was a mythological, three headed dog with lion's claws, a tail of a serphant, and a mane of snakes. Each of his heads had a different meaning. Some say they represented the past, the present and the future. Others say that they represent birth, youth and old age. He guarded the Underworld gates and helped Hades keep in the dead and keep out the living. The dog belonged to Charon, the ferryman of the underworld. Cerberus had a brother, [|Orthrus], who was said the be a two headed dog, and they were the sons of [|Echinda], a half-woman, half-serphant, fire breathing giant who even the Olympian gods feared.

**<span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">Works Cited: **<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> __Hades__. 2009. 26 April 2009. Hunterdon Central Regional High School. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades>.

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__Hades, Greek God of the Underworld__. 2006. 23 April 2009. Hunterdon Central Regional High School. <http://www.men-myths-minds.com/Hades-greek-god.html>.

__Hades: Greek King of the Underworld__. 2008. 28 April 2009. Hunterdon Central Regional High School. <http://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Haides.html>.

<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">__Kerberos__. 2008. 26 April 2009. Hunterdon Central Regional High School. <[]>.

Regula, Traci. __Fast Facts on: Hades__. 2009. 26 April 2009. Hunterdon Central Regional High School. <[]>.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">**Image Citations:** God of the Underworld. 2008. 23 April 2009. <http://www.freewebs.com/hadesclaw/hadesclaw.htm>. Hades. 2006. 26 April 2009. <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Hades_Altemps_Inv8584.jpg>. Cerberus Watercolor. 2005. 26 April 2009. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cerberus-Blake.jpeg>. Holebeck, C.F. Hades Abducting Persephone. 1811-1880. 26 April 2009. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">< <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Hades.html>. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">