THIS is the Real Hades

Being the ruler of the Underworld certainly comes with certain drawbacks. Yes, you have your own domain, but it’s terrible for your image. After all, managing a realm full of souls doesn’t exactly boost your social standing. Add a fiery-haired, fast-talking portrayal in a popular Disney movie, and you’ve got a PR nightmare. But is this infamous ruler of the Underworld truly the villain he’s made out to be, or is there more to his story? Today, we explore the truth about Hades, the most misunderstood god of Greek mythology.

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Written by Jason Collier
Narrated by Adam Marsdin

#hades #greekmythology #ancientgreek #greeklegends #greeklegends #greekgods #history #culture #greekmythologygods #riverstyx #zeus #poseidon #mythology #myths

[charlotteholliday]

How does this video not have more views. Is so good

[khylerbane]

“They call me evil. Villain. The Devil. But the joke is on them. For I don’t care what they call me. I don’t care what they think of me. I have a duty to fulfill, and such petty things can not detract me from responsibilities.

All Gods have a duty to the world for we are bound to it and it’s people. But only *I* take it seriously. Only *I* don’t treat the world like my playground and the mortals as my playthings.

I am firstborn of Kronos and eldest of the Olympians. Cheated out of my birthright by my own family, my own siblings! Yet I got the most important job of all, dispite no one knowing it. For in the hands of any of the lesser mature Gods I call my family, the dead would flood the world of the living.

So let them spew their lies. Let them believe their falsehoods. It makes no difference nor matters not to me. After all…” *sly smirk* “All become my subjects eventually.”

-Hades on Pop culture’s view of him.

[khylerbane]

It's weird how people associate him with the devil from the Abrahamic religions(Judaism Christianity and Islam), when really, he is more in line God. -Elohim, Yahweh, Jehovah, and Allah- …the modern "New Testament" version, not the original "Old Testament" version… in how he acts than any other God or Goddess from the Primordial to Olympic pantheons of Ancient Mycenaean-Hellenistic Greece.

[AmirJosephSalomon]

His name is Erebus, his name is Ymir.

[itsPandorasJar]

I know that this interpretation of the Hades and Persephone myth is popular, and I get it. But the original Greek of the Hymn of Demeter makes it very clear that Persephone was a child, "Kore" isn't just her other name, it's a name used in tandem with describing a young girl. Hades kidnapped his niece and she was screaming and crying out for her mother. When she finally is released, she's forcefully fed the pomegranate seeds. I get why people romanticize this, but you cannot overlook the facts of the original source because quite frankly, assault victims in myths are silenced enough.