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HADES

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Hades is the god of wealth, he is the ruler of the dead and the underground if somebody comes into his domain (HELL) they cant ever leave. He is the son of Cronus and Rhea (titans), he is the brother of Zeus and Poseidon. When him and his two brothers divided the world among each other Hades was given the upper world and the sea respectfully. For a while Hades and Persephone ruled the under world together whom he had abducted from the underworld Zeus ordered him the return her back into the care of his mother Demeter. But before she left he gave her a pomegranate that when she bit it it bound her to the underworld forever. =====

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Hades sits on a throne made of of ebony, and carries a scepter. He also has a helmet given to him by the cyclopes, which makes him invisible. Hades rules the dead assisted by various (demonic) helpers such of Thanatos and Hypnos, the ferryman Charon and the hound Cerberus. Hades do not allow his subjects to leave his domain but on several occasions he have granted the permission, like the time when Orpheus requested the return of his beloved Eurydice. =====

Hades possesses the riches of the earth, and is thus reffered to as 'the Rich One'. Possibly also because -- as Sophocles writes -- 'the gloomy Hades enriches himself with our sighs and our tears'.Of all the gods, Hades is the one who is like the least and even the gods themselves have an aversion of him. People avoided speaking his names lest they attracted his unwanted attention. With their faces averted they sacraficed black sheep, whose blood they let drip into pits, and when they prayed to him, they would bang their hands on the ground. The narcissus and the cypress are sacred to him. Other names include clymenus ('notorious'), Eubuleus ('well-guessing') and polydegmon ('who recieves many').