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Athena is always accompanied by at least one owl, her sacred (and fortunately housebroken) animal.
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Goddess of Wisdom, War, and Useful Arts (Ah-thee’-nah)ĭistinguishing Features: Dark hair, striking grey eyes, casual yet fashionable clothes (except when she’s going into battle then it’s full body armor). Symbol: Torch, Corn plant (though popcorn works, too) Hard to make a cheeseburger with no grain for bread and no grass for the cows. When Hades stole her daughter Persephone, Demeter stopped all plants from growing, and people started starving.
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If you wanted to eat, you had to make sure you kept on Demeter’s good side. As long as the crops were growing and the farmers were happy, Demeter was content. Then: Demeter was one of the quieter goddess. She should’ve married the god of doctors! He’s still not good enough for Persephone. Now: Demeter divides her time between the upper world, where she oversees the growing season and produces commercials encouraging people to eat more cereal products (part of a balanced breakfast!), and the Underworld, where she visits her daughter Persephone and plays the wicked mother-in-law to Hades, who kidnapped her poor little daughter eons ago. Symbol: pomegranate, cow (the motherly animal – no comments, please!), peacockĭistinguishing Features: The goddess prefers simple dresses of green or gold, though you can often find her in gardening clothes. If an old woman asks you to carry her piggyback across a river, do it. She was the enemy of Heracles and many others, though she did have a soft spot for mortal heroes, like Jason. Hera has no patience with demigods, the children of godly affairs. Then: It’s tough to be the goddess of marriage in a family where everyone cheats on everybody. She’s likely to smash you into the ground. When Hera is mad, she doesn’t just ground you. As the goddess of family, Hera will be happy to pack your lunch or comb your hair or give you a ride to school, but don’t talk back to her. That strange woman you saw at Laser Quest, serving pizza and singing Happy Birthday? Yes, that was probably her. Now: She hangs out where family life is strongest: the car pool line at school, weekend soccer games, and birthday parties. She usually appears as a beautiful older woman, and enjoys turning into birds when she needs to hide or spy. Hades was a feared god of the Greek pantheon, but he was also regarded as a fair one, for he provided a balance to life, and of course everyone died.Goddess of Marriage, Mothers and Families (Hair’-ah)ĭistinguishing Features: Usually prefers classic Greek dresses and a simple silver crown, though she can blend in as needed. The pair would be reunited as long as Orpheus did not look back during the exit from the Underworld, but the Greek hero did glance back, and so lost Eurydice until he himself died. Hades was also merciful when Orpheus came and asked for the return of his wife, Eurydice. Hades agreed to the request as long as Cerberus was not hurt during the attempt. Heracles was actually in the Underworld undertaking one of his labours, a labour which involved the kidnapping of Cerberus, but rather than simply take the guard dog, Heracles would ask the permission of the god. Theseus would eventually be released by Heracles, but Pirithous would remain imprisoned for eternity. Hades though was well aware of the plans of the pair, and when they sat down to eat with the god, Hades would ensnare them both within stone chairs. Theseus and Pirithouswould travel together to the Underworld when Pirithous decided that he wanted Persephone to be his wife. Hades would rarely leave his domain, and so stories of the god in Greek mythology were often based around visitors to his realm and even though no living person was supposed to leave the Underworld, many did. Sometimes Hades was thought of as being Death, but in Greek mythology there was a separate god for this role, Thanatos, a son of Nyx. The soul of the departed were therefore the population of Hades' realm, but the god let the judging be done by others, and instead the god simple appreciated the fear and reverence that his position gave him. The dead would be judged as to how their lives had been led, and eternity might be spent in Tartarus, the Elysian Fields or the nothingness of the Asphodel Meadows.
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Today, it is common to think of the Greek Underworld as Hell, and indeed the name Hades is often used in place of the word hell, but the ancient Greek realm was more than hell, for whilst it contained Tartarus, the hell pit, it also included the Elysian Fields, paradise. The division was undertaken by the drawing of lots, and so Zeus became lord of heaven and earth, Poseidon received the earth's waters, and Hades was given the Underworld. V ictory meant that the cosmos now needed to be divided between the three sons of Cronus.