After overthrowing Cronus, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades drew lots for shares of the world. Hades got the worst draw, and became the ruler of the Underworld. All the dead - good or bad - traveled to this land, guided by Hermes. .
Hades is a greedy god, and was greatly concerned with increasing his number of subjects in the Underworld. He seldom left his kingdom, but did possess a helmet that could make him invisible. .
Hades is also the god of wealth, as everything under the earth belongs to him. Subjects in his kingdom referred to him as "the rich one". He was the son Cronus and Rhea, and also the husband of Persephone. However, she only spends four months of the year with him. .
Hades was the dark lord of the dead and often consider an outcast by the greater Olympians. And because of his responsibilities regarding the dead, he was never allowed to take a seat on Olympus. He did continue to rule, only sometimes contently among his wife Persephone, Hecate, Gaia, Pan, and other's that were sometimes considered "unpure." .
Out of fear of speaking his name, most people who use nicknames for him such as "the rich one" and "Pluton" both which go back to his earlier mentions as a chthonic deity. He married the beautiful Persephone, but only after creating chaos by stealing her from the world above and convincing her to eat, thusly restricting her to always return. .
Mortals who enter his world had no hope of returning, and so Hades was characterized as pitiless and inexorable. .
Hades ruled over the dead in the underworld. Hades was called the God of Wealth, of the precious metals hidden in the earth. Hades' name means "the unseen". The Greeks rarely referred to the god of the dead as Hades.
They called him Pluto instead, which means "the giver of wealth." Hades was also called Pluto by the Romans, as well as Dis.
King of the Underworld.
Hades is one of the six Olympians. He and his brothers divided creation into thirds and each took a portion for their own.
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