This is a fantastic bundle which includes everything you need to know about the Hades across 25 in-depth pages. He appears in the God of War comic series and the main character in the webcomic Lore Olympus.He also appeared in many video games such as God of War, Kamigami no Asobi: Ludere Deorum, Age of Mythology, Kid Icarus: Uprising, Kingdom Hearts and others.He also appeared in the movies Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and the remake of Clash of the Titans and its sequel Wrath of the Titans.He was also a mentioned in the movie Disney trilogy Descendants as the main character’s father. Hades is popular in the Disney’s 1997 film Hercules as the main antagonist.Aside from Cerberus and the immortal horses, Hades also considers the screech-owl, a bird of ill-omen as his sacred bird.Other sacred plants also include the mint and poplar tree. His sacred tree is the cypress, a tree of mourning.He held a royal sceptre that creates a passage between the worlds of the living and the dead. Hades and his doorman Aiakos kept the golden keys that locked the gates of the underworld from escaping souls.Hades rides a golden chariot drawn by four immortal, sable-black horses.The gate to Hades’ house was guarded by the ferocious three-headed hound Cerberus. Winter occurs whenever Demeter is away from her daughter and the better seasons when Persephone is with her.It was decided that Persephone would be released but that she would have to return to Hades for one-third of the year. In order to maintain balance, Hades then agreed to a compromise. Her eating the pomegranate seed binds her to Hades and the Underworld. He obliged, but compelled Persephone to eat a pomegranate seed.Fearing the drought would decimate the mortals, Zeus sent for Hermes to persuade Hades to release the lady.Helios, or Hermes, told her of Persephone’s fate and soon created a great drought to convince the other gods to release Persephone from Hades.Without consent, Demeter searched the earth for her lost daughter.Her father, Zeus, had previously given Persephone to Hades, to be his wife, as stated in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter.The god carried her off in his chariot to live with him in the Underworld.According to mythology, Hades fell in love with beautiful Persephone when he saw her picking flowers in a meadow.She was the daughter of Demeter, the goddess of fertility of the earth who protected both farming and vegetation. Persephone (Kore) was the Greek goddess of vegetation, especially of grain.Besides ruling the underworld, he also rules the realm of the fertile earth and all the precious metals found in it.He was also the master of dreams, providing a two-doored gate of dreams one false, the other true located in Hades’ realm.He would sometimes dispatch an angry ghost from the underworld accompanied by an Erinys to avenge a crime, especially patricide or matricide. He was conjured in the rites of necromancy, the summoning of ghosts of the dead.
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