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Background of the Underworld Was a place where souls went after death or afterlife. The moment of death, the soul became separated from the corpse turning into the person they were before they died and arrived at the entrance of Hades Considered the dark counter path (kingdom of dead to the mighty Mount Olympus (kingdom of gods)
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By Muzamel Khan and Shabaaz Punjani
The Greek Underworld By Muzamel Khan and Shabaaz Punjani Background
of the Underworld
Was a place where souls went after death or afterlife. The moment
of death, the soul became separated from the corpse turning into
the person they were before they died and arrived at the entrance
of Hades Considered the dark counter path (kingdom of dead to the
mighty Mount Olympus (kingdom of gods) Hades God of the
Underworld
Son of the Titan Cronus and Rhea, had three sisters Demeter,
Hestia, and Hera and two brothers Zeus and Poseidon (the original
Six Olympian gods) (Zeus only one not eaten by Cronus) Married
Persephone through trickery His symbol was his helmet which kept
him from being visible Being theGod of the underworldhe can control
the powers of the afterlife. Being the God of the Dead and of the
Underworld,Has complete control over spirits Hades is also the God
of Wealth and Riches having the ability to turn any material into
gold, silver, diamonds and other precious substances. Not only can
he turn items into the minerals above, he also has a magnetic-like
pull to his body, making it randomly pull emeralds and such out of
the ground. One major weakness of Hades was he took much pity on
his wife He is invisible He helped the gods to victory in the Great
War against the titans and Cronus Was alluded to in Percy Jackson
and the Olympians At times the Underworld is called Hades
Persephone Persephone was born to Zeus and Demeter but raised by
her mother alone Hadess wife, is the Greek goddess of springtime,
flowers, youth, and the queen of the Underworld The amount of
children she has varies from source to source Persephone had a few
different powers. She could easily bring the dead back to life. She
also had the ability to make flowers around her burst into bloom.
Not able to escape the influence of an over protective mother. In A
Company of Swans the heroine Harriet Morton eats pomegranate seeds
in the hope that will mean she has to remain in Brazil rather than
go back to her family home in Cambridge Demeter Goddess of
Harvest
Demeter is a daughter of Kronos and Rhea and sister of Zeus with
whom she became the mother of Persephone Also presided over the
sanctity of marriage, She and her daughter Persephone were the
central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries that predated the
Olympian pantheon A weakness of her was that she went to depression
quite often A strength was the she controlled the fertility of
Earth She is identified as the mother goddess She caused winter to
happen when she went into depression due to her daughter Persephone
became missing Greeks have a festival dedicated to Demeter The Styx
River between the Underworld and Earth, often called Hades
Important rivers of the Underworld are Lethe Alphelus and Eridanos
Before she was a river she was the goddess of the rivers and could
make one invulnerable She sided with Zeus in the Great War In Percy
Jackson there is a river that separates Camp Half- Blood and the
Realm of the Dead which is like The Styx Charon Boatman of the
Underworld
Carries souls of the newly deceased across The Styx And Archeron to
the Underworld Son of Nyx (goddess of Night) and Erebus Not a known
weakness Possessed superhuman strength Led many living people
across to the Underworld and back to Earth including Hercules Had
many different physiques Has a dwarf planet named after him
Cerberus is a multi headed (usually three heads) dog or
hellhound
Guarded entrance of Underworld for people trying to escape
offspring of Echidna, a hybrid half woman and half serpent and
Typhon, a humongous monster the Greek Gods feared Siblings were
Orthus a two headed dog and Chimera, a three headed monster and
Lernaean Hydra Identified usually as a three headed dog Hercules,
as part of his 12 labors, was told to bring Cerberus to the King of
Eurystheus without using any weapons and he did but was told to
return it back to the underworld Fed on live meat Larger than any
man and had superhuman strength Pan God of the wild, shepherds and
flocks, nature of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music, also
the companion of the nymphs His parentage is unclear varying from
Zeus to Hermes Mostly Human with goat feet and goat horns Name is
basis for the word panic he scared travelers in the woods and made
them panic and flee Superhuman strength His weakness was that he
didnt understand concepts of pain and suffering Hades And
Persephone Married Hades through trickery, he had kidnapped
Persephone and Persephone at first couldnt stand Hades but started
to grow on him She was supposed to go back to Olympus but she ate
six poisoned pomegranates causing her to stay in the Underworld for
at least six months Persephone, Zeus, and Hades came upon an
agreement where Persephone would stay in the Underworld for six
months and in Olympus for six months