Speaks Apollo...I love thinking from the neck up...That way I stay out of trouble...I am the God of Truth, Justice, Light, and 'Rational, Ethical Enlightenment'....long before the 'Enlightenment Philosophers made their particular appearance -- and opinions known -- in the course of Western History...I am essentially 'The God' that the Enlightenment Philosophers worshipped...
I have an 'alter-ego', or a 'competitive God' -- Dionysus -- who doesn't think anything like me, indeed, he doesn't think -- he feels -- but that is why Dionysus is always getting himself into trouble, or let me rephrase that -- that is why Dionysus is always 'seducing men and women into trouble'....as Western Culture's first and main predecessor to what would eventually become even more sinister in Western mythology and the beginning of the Christian religion -- i.e., 'The Anti-Christian Devil'...or 'Satan'...
Think from your neck up, and no matter what you do, don't let Dionysus into your head, because if you do, you are only asking for trouble, inviting trouble, allowing yourself to be seduced into trouble as Dionysus very seductively and manipulatively seeks to get you 'out of your head and into your senses'... Don't let him in, because if you do, you are allowing yourself to become Dionysus' 'play thing'...and further down the road, down the path to the Underground...Dionysus will eventually take you to Hades, which was the Greek mythological version of what would be called 'Pluto' in Roman mythology...and then essentially 'Hell' -- the 'Den of Satan' -- in Christian mythology/religion...
If you don't want to become the 'Devil's Plaything'....
Then follow me, not Dionysus...
Thus, Apollo speaks...
-- dgb, Nov. 10th, 2010,
-- David Gordon Bain
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Hades
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Hades
Hades with Cerberus (Heraklion Archaeological Museum)
Hades with Cerberus (Heraklion Archaeological Museum)
King of the underworld
God of the Dead and Riches
Abode Underworld
Symbol Cerberus, Cap of invisibility, or Helm of Darkness, Cypress, Narcissus and Key of Hades
Consort Persephone
Parents Cronus and Rhea
Siblings Poseidon, Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Zeus
Children Macaria
Roman equivalent Pluto, Dis Pater, Orcus
Hades (Άδης or Ἀΐδας; from Greek ᾍδης, Hadēs, originally Ἅιδης, Haidēs or Άΐδης, Aidēs, meaning "the unseen"[1][2]) refers both to the ancient Greek underworld, the abode of Hades, and to the god of the underworld. Hades in Homer referred just to the god; the genitive ᾍδου, Haidou, was an elision to denote locality: "[the house/dominion] of Hades". Eventually, the nominative, too, came to designate the abode of the dead.
In Greek mythology, Hades was considered to be the oldest male child of Cronus and Rhea. According to myth, he and his brothers Zeus and Poseidon defeated the Titans and claimed rulership over the universe ruling the underworld, air, and sea, respectively; the solid earth, long the province of Gaia, was available to all three concurrently. Because of his association with the underworld, Hades is often interpreted in modern times as the Grim Reaper[citation needed], even though he was not.
By the Romans Hades was called Pluto, from his Greek epithet Πλούτων Ploutōn (πλοῦτος, wealth), meaning "Rich One". In Roman mythology, Hades/Pluto was called Dis Pater and Orcus. The corresponding Etruscan god was Aita. Symbols associated with him are the Helm of Darkness and the three-headed dog, Cerberus.
The term hades in Christian theology (and in New Testament Greek) is parallel to Hebrew sheol (שאול, grave or dirt-pit), and refers to the abode of the dead. The Christian concept of hell is more akin to (and communicated by) the Greek concept of Tartarus, a deep, gloomy part of hades used as a dungeon of torment and suffering.
