One day, while the young girl was playing and picking flowers along with her friends in a valley, she beheld the most enchanting narcissus she had ever seen. As she stooped down to pick the flower, the earth beneath her feet suddenly cleaved open and through the gap Hades himself came out on his chariot with black horses.
Hades grabbed the lovely maiden before she could scream for help and descended into his underworld kingdom while the gap in the earth closed after them. The other girls had not seen anything because everything happened very quickly. They didn't have a clue for the sudden disappearance of Persephone. The whole incident, however, had been witnessed by Zeus, father of the maiden and brother of the abductor, as well as by Helios, god of the Sun.
Zeus decided to keep silent about the whole thing to prevent a fight with his brother while Helios wisely thought it better not to get involved in anything that didn't concern him. A distraught and heartbroken Demeter wandered the earth looking for her daughter until her good friend Hecate, goddess of wilderness and childbirth, advised her to seek for the help of Helios, the all-seeing Sun god, in order to find her daughter.
Helios felt sorry for Demeter, who was crying and pleading him to help her. Thus she revealed her that Persephone had been kidnapped by Hades. When she heard that, Demeter got angry and wanted to take revenge but Helios suggested that it was not such a bad thing for Persephone to be the wife of Hades and queen of the dead. Demeter, however, could not let it gone. She was furious at this insult and deeply believed that Hades, who after all had only dead people for company, was not the right husband for her sweet daughter.
She also got angry at Zeus for not having revealed this to her. To punish gods and to grief, Demeter decided to take a long and indefinite leave from her duties as the goddess of harvest and fertility, with devastating consequences. The earth began to dry up,harvests failed, plants lost their fruitfulness, animals were dying for lack of food and famine spread to the whole earth, resulting in untold misery. The cries of the people who were suffering reached Olympus and the divine ears of Zeus.
The mighty god finally realized that if he wouldn't do something about his wife's wrath, all humanity would disappear. Finally, she met Hekate, the deity of magic, witchcraft, spirits and crossroads, at the dawn of the 10th day who had pity at her dismal condition and asked her to seek help from the all seeing Helios, the sun god. Helios told Demeter all about how Hades had dragged Persephone into the underworld. Hades consulted with Zeus and they both decided to allow Persephone to live on earth for six months each year, while the rest of the time she would be on his side in the Underworld.
Before leaving the underworld, Persephone had been persuaded to eat four seeds of a pomegranate. But she was allowed to spend the remaining two-thirds of the year with her Earth Mother, Demeter. When she descends to Hades, it is winter. The disappearance and the return of Persephone were the occasions of great festivals in ancient Greece, among them the Elefsinian rites, whose secrets were so closely guarded that little is known about them today.
Some experts believe the rites or mysteries fostered the idea of a more perfect life after death, and thus helped to lay the groundwork for the coming of Christianity, which upholds the idea of everlasting life. I dislike the fact that everyone shadows Hades over the true god of death, Thanatos.
All well. Other than that, I am very interested in this article. After the Titanomachy, when the three brothers were dividing up the world, Zeus chose the sky and everything in it, Hades chose the earth and everything in it, and Poseidon was left with the Mediterranean Sea not to be confused with the sea beyond the isle, which is ruled by Oceanus, or the deep sea which is ruled by his wife, Tethys. Everything is born under the sky and everything gets put back into the ground, so their respective kingdoms continue to grow.
Thanatos was the god of death, but Hades was the lord of the underworld. There is a difference, also, Thanatos is the god who ferries the dead to where they will be judged. The underworld was draw for with water and the sky by his brother Zeus and Poseidon. Thanks for the information! I needed this for my Greek Mythology project in school about Hades. Helped a lot! Again, Thanks. Reading the story of Hades and Persiphone has made me recall that Hades has been known as Hell as long as I can remember.
Why is that? Actually, Hell is the place of eternal damnation, and Hades is the God of the Underworld. There is a Hell in the underworld, but there is often a place of reward Heaven? As I recall. Hades was just above both of these things in the Greek myths. In Greek mythology everyone went to the underworld or Hades upon their death. It was not a punishment and in fact was not a bad place as Persephone found out in time which is the reason she stayed there every year during the winter and with her mother in the summer.
Edit source History Talk 7. Spoiler warning! This article contains detailed information about Hades that may spoil your enjoyment of discovering the game's secrets for yourself. Read at your own risk! In the Underworld, as on the surface, certain topics are never to be discussed, especially in decent company. Well, this is not a discussion, and the company I keep is rather limited. So, let us consider the Queen of the Underworld; who she was, what happened to her, and why nobody seems to know the answer to either of those questions.
All that matters in the House of Hades are concealed from the living, and the gods up above; even here, the one piece of agreed-upon knowledge concerning the queen is the unspeakable punishment for invoking her name. I gather that her reign must have been short-lived, for there was not even a trace of her in the House.
Save for one remnant I once thought I saw. It was something I was never meant to see. One day or perhaps night, I was guarding the Master's hall, when he threw open his private chamber doors in a fury.
Then I saw her! A splendid portrait I have longed to see again since. What of the Master, then? Categories Characters Gods Add category.
Cancel Save. Universal Conquest Wiki. House of Hades formerly. Hades: I can no longer tolerate my life here in this place. So, I am leaving, even if it kills me. I won't be returning to Olympus. Chris Mackie does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. The student of Greek mythology is often struck by the fact that some gods and goddesses have extensive roles in the mythical narratives, and others have very limited parts to play.
The goddess Demeter is an interesting case of this. As an Olympian goddess and fertility figure, she is very important in ancient Greek religion and life, but she has a rather small role in its literature and mythology. She is mentioned a little bit in Homeric epic, especially the Iliad, but has no actual part to play either in the Iliad or the Odyssey.
Nor does she feature at all as a character in extant Greek drama. Read more: Guide to the classics: Homer's Iliad. It probably dates to the first half of the 6th century BC. It is lines long and composed in hexameters, the same poetic metre as the Iliad and Odyssey.
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