1. Hades of the underworld
 Gods/Goddesses
 Greek mythological Gods: Hades
Advanced Angelogy
Project #1 – Gods and Goddesses
Adam James , Eric Barranco
Celia Santiago
Monday – Saturday

2. Birth of the Gods
 The great Titans, Rhea and Cronos shared a love that led to the
birth of the first Gods of Mount Olympus.
 Gods by the names of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter, and
Hestia were the first six and each were swallowed one by one by
Cronos because he feared the power his kin yielded.
 All but the wise Zeus were swallowed and in his escape he grew up
in a secure location away from danger where he managed to
harness his abilities and save his siblings from the belly of their
father.
 After their escape the siblings aided Zeus in taking revenge and
with success they sat on top of this world as Gods and goddesses
replacing the former Titans in this position.
 These Gods then had offspring of their own giving rise to other
Gods and goddesses as seen in the chart below.

3. Family

4. Ruler of the Underworld
 For this project we chose Hades because it is interesting how after
his coalition with his brothers and sisters he is sort of outcast from
Mount Olympus. To him it was unfair that Zeus got to be king of the
Gods while he was not.
 After challenging his brother and losing Hades was forced to leave
Mount Olympus, he felt as though he got the raw end of the deal
even though Zues, Hades, and Poseidon all received their
respective domains fair and square. He then formed his own
kingdom and presided elsewhere.
 Hades is often referred to as the unseen one in mythology because
he is the lord of the underworld and ruler of the dead.
 He is in control of the afterlife only if the proper rituals have been
practiced in order to guide the souls to the other side by Charon.

5. Abilities
Known Superhuman Powers: Hades possesses the conventional physical attributes of an Olympian god. Like
all Olympians, he is immortal; he has not aged since reaching adulthood and cannot die by any
conventional means. He is immune to all Earthly diseases and is resistant to conventional injury.
If wounded, his godly life force would enable him to recover with superhuman speed; it would take an injury
of such magnitude that it dispersed a major portion of his bodily molecules to cause him physical death.
Even then, it may be possible for Zeus or a god of equal power to revive him.
Hades possesses superhuman strength and his Olympian metabolism gives him far greater than human
endurance at all physical activities. (Olympian flesh and bone is about three times as dense as similar human
tissue, contributing to the Olympians' superhuman strength and weight.)
Hades also has extraordinary energy-wielding abilities equaled among the Olympians only by those of
Poseidon, and surpassed only by those of Zeus. Only a few of Hades’ many energy-wielding powers have as
yet been depicted. Hades can fire powerful force belts from his hands, erect powerful, nearly impenetrable
force fields, and create interdimensional apertures to enable him to transport himself from one dimension to
another.
He can weaken an opponent's strength with his touch. Hades can create mystical flame and sheathe himself
with such flame while himself remaining unharmed. Hades can create weapons of mystical flame, such as a
spear or sword of fire, which can paralyze an opponent.
Hades also also has extraordinary senses for paranormal and supernatural energies. Sensitive to psychic
activity, he can see ghosts and perceive information from earthbound entities even without their permission.
It has been alleged that Hades is less powerful on Earth, or in other dimensions, such as Asgard or Valhalla,
than he is in his own realm of Tartarus.

6. Abilities Part 2
Strength Level: Hades possesses superhuman strength enabling him to lift (press) 70
tens. Among the Olympian gods, his level of strength is matched only by those of
Poseidon and Ares, and exceeded only by those of Zeus and Hercules.
Weapons/Paraphernalia: Hades has a helmet of invisibility made for him by the
Cyclopes, one-eyed giants who were trapped in Tartarus along with Hades by
Cronus. Using it, Hades can make himself magically invisible even to other
Olympians.
Hades wields a large battleaxe through which he can project and focus his force bolts
(although he is fully capable of projecting the bolts without it). The battleaxe is made
of enchanted adamantine, an ore native to Olympus, and is virtually indestructible.
One of the axes was smashed by a spell of the Norns in recent years but Hades has
others. All of them were constructed for Hades by the Cyclopes.

7. Other known facts of Hades
: Hades is educated in supernatural and occult knowledge as well as
mystical occult rituals predating the Sumerian Empire. In his mortal
identity as Hayden Reason, he is the foremost expert in
parapsychology and demonology
Hades possessed the Cap of invisibility which of course allowed him to
remain unseen and is why he is referred to as the unseen one in
many depictions.
His chariot is massive and pulled by four equally massive black horses
which made for a fearsome and impressive sight.
Black animals, such as sheep, were sacrificed to him

8. Underworld

9.  After the conflicts between the two brothers Zeus and Hades it was clear that
Hades did not belong on Mount Olympus with the rest of his siblings.
 He was the only God who left Olympus never to return
 Hades and his two brothers, Poseidon and Zeus, drew lots for realms to rule. Zeus
got the sky, Poseidon got the seas, and Hades received the underworld, the
unseen realm to which the souls of the dead go upon leaving the world as well
as any and all things beneath the earth.
 His new home was the underworld where he accepted the role of guiding souls
and with matters of life and death
 Death is a subject that has always been feared throughout human history,
mainly because it has always been unknown what happens after death.
 Hades, god of the dead, was a fearsome figure to those still living; in no hurry to
meet him, they were reluctant to swear oaths in his name, and averted their
faces when sacrificing to him. Since to many, simply to say the word "Hades"
was frightening, this fear led the living to hate him as he personified death.

10.  Despite modern connotations of death as evil, Hades was actually more of a
selfless God inclined in mythology. Hades was often portrayed as passive rather
than evil; his role was often maintaining relative balance, such as the balance
between life and death.
 Since precious minerals come from under the earth in other words the
underworld he was considered to have control of these as well, and was
referred to as Pluto, (related to the word for "wealth"), which gave birth to
Roman name Pluto. Sophocles often referred to Hades as "the rich one" with
these words: "the gloomy Hades enriches himself with our sighs and our tears."
 Hades ruled the dead, assisted by other beings that he had complete authority
over. He strictly forbade his subjects to leave his domain and would become
quite enraged when anyone tried to leave, or if someone tried to steal the souls
from his realm. Hercules was the only living person who managed to steal back
a soul from the underworld.
 His wrath was equally matched or even surpassed for anyone who tried to
cheat death or otherwise crossed him, as Sisyphus and Pirithous found out to
their sorrow. Besides Heracles, the only other living people who ventured to the
Underworld were all heroes, such as Odysseus and Aeneas

11. Sisyphus
 King Sisyphus promoted navigation and commerce to his land but was
very deceitful. He also killed travelers and his guests, a violation of Xenia
(hospitality) which fell under Zeus' domain. He took pleasure in these
killings because they allowed him to maintain his iron-fisted rule over his
people.
 King Sisyphus also betrayed one of Zeus' secrets by telling the river god
Asopus of the whereabouts of his daughter Aegina, Asopus daughter who
was taken away by Zeus in return for causing a spring to flow on the
Corinthian Acropolis
 Zeus then ordered Hades to chain King Sisyphus down below in Tartarus.
Sisyphus was curious as to why Hermes, whose job was to guide souls to
the Underworld had not come. King Sisyphus then cunningly asked Hades
to demonstrate how the chains worked. As Hades was granting his wish,
Sisyphus then seized the advantage and trapped Hades instead. This
caused an uproar since no human could die with Hades trapped in
Tartarus.
 Eventually Ares the God of War got really annoyed that his battles had
lost their fun because his opponents would not die, so he intervened. The
annoyed Ares freed Hades and turned King Sisyphus over to Hades as
well.[

12.  As a punishment for his trickery, King Sisyphus was made to roll a
huge boulder up a steep hill. However before he could reach the
top, the massive stone would always roll back down, and he would
have to begin again.
 The incredibly frustrating nature of the punishment was reserved for
King Sisyphus due to his hubristic belief that his cleverness surpassed
that of Zeus himself.
 Zeus accordingly displayed his own cleverness by enchanting the
boulder into rolling away from King Sisyphus before he reached the
top which ended up consigning Sisyphus to an eternity of useless
efforts and unending frustration

13. Souls
It is thought that Charon, the old ferry man who ferries the dead onto the
underworld, crosses the river Styx where the dragon tailed dog Cerberus guards,
allowing all souls to enter but none to leave. This is a misconception, Charon crosses
the river Acheron where also Cerebus stands his eternal guard. Also while on this
subject, Charon only takes the souls across that are buried properly with a coin
(called an obol) that was placed in their mouths upon burial.
1.Acheron - the river of woe;
2.Cocytus - the river of lamentation;
3.Phlegethon - the river of fire;
4.Lethe - the river of forgetfulness;
5.Styx - the river of hate.

15.  In older Greek myths, the realm of Hades is the misty and gloomy
abode of the dead
 Eventually this is where all mortals go.
 Later Greek philosophy introduced the idea that all mortals are
judged after death and are either rewarded or cursed
 There were several sections of the realm of Hades, including
Elysium, the Asphodel Meadows, and Tartarus.
 Elysium or the Elysium fields are separate from the realm of Hades,
admission was initially reserved for mortals related to the gods and
other heroes.
 It also include those chosen by the gods, the righteous, and the
heroic, where they would remain after death, to live a blessed and
happy life, and indulging in whatever employment they had
enjoyed in life

16. Asphodel Meadows, and Tartarus
 Some depictions of the Asphodel Meadows describe it as a land of
neutrality. That is because the people in this place are neither good
nor evil,
 Their lives treated as neither good nor evil as well, as they
mechanically perform their daily tasks here
 all residents drink from the river Lethe(oblivion) before entering the
fields, thus losing their identities and becoming something similar to
a machine.
 Tartarus is a deep, gloomy place it’s described as an abyss a black
pit of sorts used as a dungeon of torment and suffering that resides
beneath the underworld
 Tartarus was used as a prison for the worst of villains, including
Cronus and the other Titans who were thrown in by Zeus.

17. Greek Sculptures: Hades and
Cerberus
 This is just one of many depictions of Hades
in Greek mythology. He is shown here with
his famous three headed dog named
Cerberus. The size and number of heads
always fluctuated between 3 and 100 until
they finally decided on 3
 Despite how docile Cerberus looks here
the guardian of the gates of the
underworld was actually very vicious. In
mythology Cerberus is actually much
larger than seen here
 Cerberus effectively guards the gates of
the underworld preventing those who
managed to cross the river of Styx to
escape.

18. Cerberus
The three-headed, serpent-tailed dog Cerberus was the offspring
of Echidna and Typhon. (In Greek mythology, parents didn't
necessarily resemble their offspring.) Plato Republic 588 likens
Cerberus to chimeras: "'One of those natures that the ancient
fables tell of,' said I, 'as that of the Chimaera or Scylla or
Cerberus, and the numerous other examples that are told of many
forms grown together in one.'" Describing the hound, likewise, as
a chimera, Apollodorus 2.V.12.I writes: "Now this Cerberus had
three heads of dogs, the tail of a dragon, and on his back the heads
of all sorts of snakes." In one of the main sources on Greek
mythological figures, Hesiod's Theogony, Cerberus had not 3, but
50 heads. Some artists have portrayed the beast with two heads.
The point was, he had more than one threatening, toothy set of
jaws, although by the time of the Roman poets, the number seems
to have been fixed at 3
.
Cerberus was a fierce, pitiless, honey cakes and flesh-eating
Underworld watchdog, stationed by the River Styx, from which
post he would keep the living from entering the land of the dead.
Even the gods feared Cerberus, but Hercules (Heracles), for his
12th Labor, had to kidnap the three-headed dog and bring him
back to the world of the living to Hercules' taskmaster, King
Eurystheus. Vergil included in his Aeneid a trip to the
Underworld, in which it was necessary for the Roman hero,
Aeneas, to get past Cerberus. In Book VI of the Aeneid, the Sibyl
threw tranquilizers to each of the three heads of Cerberus so
Aeneas could pass in safety
.
Orpheus and Psyche were two other mortals who managed to get
by Cerberus.

19. Persephone
 Persephone's Symbol or Attribute: The pomegranate. The
narcissus, which Hades planted in a meadow to entice her to
pluck it; pulling on the flower opened up the Underworld and
Hades sprang out, carrying her off.
 Her Strengths: Loving and lovely.
 Her Weaknesses: Beauty so ravishing it attracts Hades'
unwanted attention.
 Persephone's Spouse: Hades, with whom she must stay part of
each year because she ate a few pomegranate seeds in the
Underworld.
 Interesting Fact: Persephone is also sometimes known just as
Kore, or the Maiden. She was sometimes called "the maiden of
the beautiful ankles". While most sources indicate Persephone
was not happy to be "married" by Hades, others assert that she
ate the pomegranate seed (or seeds) deliberately, as a way of
breaking free from Mom, and that she was actually content with
the final arrangement.

20.  The wife of Hades was Persephone, depicted by the Greeks as the
beautiful daughter of Demeter.
 Persephone did not willingly become Hades wife, but was
abducted by him while picking flowers in the fields of Nysa.
 Demeter protested against this action by casting a curse on the
land and there was a great famine
 This is the Greek explanation of winter. Fall is Demeter getting
anxious about her leave to the underworld to be with her husband
winter is the curse on the land and Demeter’s depression. While
spring and summer signify Persephone's return.
 Though one by one, the gods came to request she lift it so that
mankind wouldn’t perish, she asserted that the earth would remain
barren until she saw her daughter again.
 It wasn’t until Zeus intervened by requesting that Hades release her
that he let her go.