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This led the Goddess to ignore her duties causing great famines upon earth which consequently brought about death and destruction. When Persephone was abducted by Hades, her mother Demeter (Goddess of fertility and agriculture) became distraught and began frantically searching for her daughter.

The Abduction of Persephone by Hades – Statue by Gian Lorenzo Bernini He consequently kidnapped her and took her to his realm of the Underworld, to be his queen and wife. As the Goddess reached to pluck it, the ground below her feet opened up and Hades appeared before her on his golden chariot.

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One day, as Persephone was gathering flowers in the Nysian meadow along with her attending nymphs, she wandered apart from the group attracted by a glorious fragrant flower in full bloom. All the same, Hades decided on abducting Persephone for himself. Other myths simply point to Hades setting his eyes upon the Goddess. In certain myths, Hades was looking for a worthy consort and complained to Zeus regarding the same, and the later suggested Persephone as an ideal candidate. Hades was Persephone’s uncle and the brother of Demeter, who had been given dominion over the Underworld after the Olympians overthrew the Titans.

However, being a mother’s child, Persephone rejected the advances of all her suitors and instead spent much of her time interacting with and tending to nature. Persephone grew up to be a beautiful young girl attracting the attention of several Olympian Gods including Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus and Hermes.

Persephone was the only daughter of the Goddess Demeter from the chief Olympian God Zeus. This was the rebirth of the 5 to be Olympians from the stomach of their father, now reborn in the reverse order – Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter and Hestia. With the help of Metis (Goddess of wisdom, thought and skill), he made his father consume a spurious drink which made Cronus queasy, forcing him to emit out the children that he had swallowed. Zeus soon grew up and was now determined to restore his brothers and sisters to the light of day. However Zeus, the youngest of them was saved by Rhea and was secretly kept hidden in the island of Crete, away from his father’s eyes. Hades was their first born son who along with his 3 elder sisters (Hestia, Demeter and Hera) and younger brother (Poseidon) were consumed at birth by their father. Cronus and his wife Rhea went on to give birth to 6 children. Cursed by his father to meet the same fate at the hands of his progeny, Cronus decided to devour each of his newly born children. In Greek mythology, Cronus (Saturn) was the youngest of the first Generation of Titans, who became the supreme deity of Greek pantheon after dethroning his divine father Ouronos (Uranus). #1 Cronus And The Rebirth of the Olympians

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Know more of the Greek God of the Dead with these 10 most famous myths featuring Hades. The Roman Gods Dis Pater and Orcus were later taken as equivalent to Hades and merged into the God Pluto, a Latinization of the Greek Plouton, a euphemistic title often given to Hades. In Greek myths and art he is generally portrayed as grim, cold and stern with a solemn, mournful look. Hades was also considered as the God of wealth associated with the mining of gold, silver and the fertility of soil. In his realm, Hades ruled with full authority along with his queen Persephone, daughter of Zeus. The realm of Hades was guarded by the three headed dog Cerberus while the God was attended by a large court which included: the Erinyes (Furies), the Moirai (Fates), the Keres (Death-Daimones), Thanatos (Death) and the Gods of the 5 rivers that flowed through the Underworld: Acheron (the river of sorrow), Phlegethon (fire), Lethe (forgetfulness), Cocytus (lamentation) and Styx (hate). Hades presided over funeral rites and defended the right of the dead to due burial. Hades was thus among the most prominent of Olympians as the King of the Underworld and the God of the Dead. The brothers then divided the territory among themselves with Hades receiving the Underworld (a place where dead souls go after death), Zeus the Sky, and Poseidon the Sea. After defeating their own father, Hades along with his siblings Zeus and Poseidon, claimed ruler-ship over the cosmos. In ancient Greek mythology, Hades was the first born son of the legendary Titans and supreme deities Cronus and Rhea.