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He spent most of the time in his dark realm. Formidable in battle, he proved his ferocity in the famous Titanomachy, the battle of the Olympians versus the Titans, which established the rule of Zeus, according to the mythology of Ancient Greece.

Feared and loathed, Hades embodied the inexorable finality of death: “Why do we loathe Hades more than any god, if not because he is so adamantine and unyielding?” This rhetorical question is Agamemnon’s in Homer’s Iliad.

As his birthright, Hades received the underworld, Zeus the sky, and Poseidon the sea; but the earth, which had long been the province of Gaia, was open to all three gods concurrently for any actions they wished to carry out.

Hades was often portrayed with his three-headed guard dog Cerberus.

Sacrifices to Hades involved black animals, touching heads to ground

Hades was not, however, an evil god, for although he was stern, cruel, and unpitying, he was viewed as a just one. Hades ruled the Underworld and was therefore most often associated with death and feared by men, but he was not Death itself — that was Thanatos, the son of Nyx and Erebus, who was the actual personification of death in Ancient Greece.

When the Greeks propitiated Hades, they banged their hands on the ground to be sure he would hear them. Black animals, such as sheep, were sacrificed to him. The blood from all chthonic sacrifices, including those to propitiate Hades, dripped into a pit or cleft in the ground. The person who offered the sacrifice had to avert his face.

The Etruscan god Aita and the Roman gods Dis Pater and Orcus were eventually taken as equivalent to Hades and merged into Pluto, a Latinization of Plouton (Greek: Πλούτων, Ploútōn), which was itself a more euphemistic title often given to Hades.

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