What Are Hades Misunderstood God
Dereck Garcia
Miss Windish
English II
3 December 2017
Hades, the God of the Underworld Hades, lord of the underworld, God of Wealth, brother of Hades and Zeus, the slightly misunderstood god. My claim is that Hades wasn’t entirely bad, he helped fight tyrannical titans, never did judge the dead, and fell in love a couple of times. Before the beginning of mankind, Zeus, before Poseidon, and Hades were born, there was titans who ruled the cosmos in a tyrannical way, their leader was Cronus, father time. Hades and Poseidon were devoured by Cronus when he was born, but then Zeus convinced Cronus to regurgitate him, and after that he asked Hades for help to fight the titans, Hades agreed. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades fought all the titans until they fought Cronus. After his defeat they shoved Cronus down a hole that lead to Tartarus and Tartarus would be considered the place of eternal suffering. After the defeat of Cronus and shoving down the hole of Tartarus, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades decided that all three of them would rule one domain, The Underworld, The Seas, and The skies. Zeus became the ruler of the skies, Hades the underworld, and Poseidon the seas. …show more content…
It was most commonly thought that Hades chose your fate and that you had higher chances of going to Tartarus instead of that island of goodness, but he never judged the dead, he had three other people judge them for him. “RHADAMANTHYS, MINOS and AIAKOS (Aeacus) were the judges of the dead, three demi-god ministers of Haides. They were originally mortal men, sons of the god Zeus, who were granted their station in death as a reward for establishing law and order on earth.” (“Judges of the Dead,” 2010) Hades never cared to judge the dead, and he sometimes felt guilty doing
Miss Windish
English II
3 December 2017
Hades, the God of the Underworld Hades, lord of the underworld, God of Wealth, brother of Hades and Zeus, the slightly misunderstood god. My claim is that Hades wasn’t entirely bad, he helped fight tyrannical titans, never did judge the dead, and fell in love a couple of times. Before the beginning of mankind, Zeus, before Poseidon, and Hades were born, there was titans who ruled the cosmos in a tyrannical way, their leader was Cronus, father time. Hades and Poseidon were devoured by Cronus when he was born, but then Zeus convinced Cronus to regurgitate him, and after that he asked Hades for help to fight the titans, Hades agreed. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades fought all the titans until they fought Cronus. After his defeat they shoved Cronus down a hole that lead to Tartarus and Tartarus would be considered the place of eternal suffering. After the defeat of Cronus and shoving down the hole of Tartarus, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades decided that all three of them would rule one domain, The Underworld, The Seas, and The skies. Zeus became the ruler of the skies, Hades the underworld, and Poseidon the seas. …show more content…
It was most commonly thought that Hades chose your fate and that you had higher chances of going to Tartarus instead of that island of goodness, but he never judged the dead, he had three other people judge them for him. “RHADAMANTHYS, MINOS and AIAKOS (Aeacus) were the judges of the dead, three demi-god ministers of Haides. They were originally mortal men, sons of the god Zeus, who were granted their station in death as a reward for establishing law and order on earth.” (“Judges of the Dead,” 2010) Hades never cared to judge the dead, and he sometimes felt guilty doing