Hades #shorts
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Date: 2022-11-19

Hades

Hades is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld in ancient Greek religion and myth. He is the eldest son of the Titans Kronos and Rhea and brother to Zeus, Poseidon, Hestia, Hera, Demeter and Chiron.
As the lord of the dead, Hades was greatly feared by the Greeks, and he had few temples or shrines dedicated to him.
He was married to the goddess Persephone, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. Hades’ symbols were the cornucopia, a sceptre, the cypress, narcissus, poplar and his Helm of Darkness; the screech owl was his sacred animal.
His sacred fruit was the pomegranate, the fruit that Persephone ate one-third of when she was kidnapped and in the underworld. Hades’ Roman equivalent was Pluto, whose name is merely a Latinization of the Greek Plouton.

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CC BY-SA 3.0, https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades

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By Jastrow (2006), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1343200
By Carole Raddato from Frankfurt, Germany - Detail of Pluto/Serapis, Statue group of Persephone (as Isis) and Pluto (as Serapis), from the Sanctuary of the Egyptian Gods at Gortyna, mid-2nd century AD, Heraklion Archaeological Museum, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65041819
By Publisher: Eduard Trewendt, Atelier für Holzschnittkunst von August Gaber in Dresden - Mythologie der Griechen und Römer für die reifere und gebildete weibliche Jugend,Von Julie Hoffmann; 264 Seiten, Breslau 1864, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15261553
By Unknown author - This file has been extracted from another file, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=550031
By Unidentified painter - Original publication: Oil Painting on woodImmediate source: Purchased in California, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22425041