* Hades ( Honorverse ), a fictional maximum security prison in the David Weber's Honorverse

Although the Greeks and Romans typically scorned Egypt's animal-headed gods as bizarre and primitive ( Anubis was known to be mockingly called " Barker " by the Greeks ), Anubis was sometimes associated with Sirius in the heavens, and Cerberus in Hades.

In Classical Greek and Roman myth, various goddesses represented the Earth, seasons, crops and fertility, including Demeter and Persephone ; Ceres ; the Horae ( goddesses of the seasons ), and Proserpina ; and Hades ( Pluto ) who ruled the souls of dead in the Underworld.

*** Leuce ( white poplar tree ), lover of Hades

*** Minthe ( mint ), lover of Hades, rival of Persephone

" ( i. e., He descended into Hades after his death ), which describes Jesus as preaching to the " spirits in prison who disobeyed long ago ".

In episode 6 ( Hades ) of James Joyce's Ulysses ( 1918 ), the party on the way to Paddy Dignam's funeral in a horse-drawn carriage idly debates the merits of various tramway improvements:

The mysteries represented the myth of the abduction of Persephone from her mother Demeter by the king of the underworld Hades, in a cycle with three phases, the " descent " ( loss ), the " search " and the " ascent ", with the main theme the " ascent " of Persephone and the reunion with her mother.

In The Iliad ( c. 700 BC ), Zeus asserts that Tartarus is " as far beneath Hades as heaven is high above the earth.

Medieval theologians in Western Europe described the underworld (" Hell ", " Hades ", " Infernum ") as divided into four distinct parts: Hell of the Damned ( which some call Gehenna ), Purgatory, Limbo of the Fathers or Patriarchs, and Limbo of the Infants.

In being conflated with Pluto, Dis Pater took on some of the Greek mythological attributes of Pluto / Hades, being one of the three sons of Saturn ( Greek: Cronus ) and Ops ( Greek: Rhea ), along with Jupiter and Neptune.

Like the name Hades ( or the Norse Hel, for that matter ), " Orcus " could also mean the land of the dead.

Creiddylad has been compared to the Greek springtime goddess Persephone, who is similarly abducted by an admirer ( the underworld god Hades ), rescued by an intervening character ( Zeus ), and reunited with her family ( her mother Demeter ), then cursed to repeat the experience every year.

The first mentioned Amphictyony centered on the cult of Demeter at the city Anthela in the locality of Thermopylae. The delegates to the Amphictiony were entitled Pylagorai ( gate-assemblers ), perhaps a reference to the local gates of Hades, since Demeter was a chthonic goddess in many of her older local cults.

For instance, in Greek mythology, at least four different characters show similarities to Veles: Pan ( music and cattle ), Hermes ( magic and trickery ), Hades ( death and the underworld ), and Typhon ( serpentine enemy of the Greek thunder god, Zeus ).

* Blades ( hip-hop group ) ( Formally Blades Of Hades ), Australian hip hop group from Newcastle, New South Wales

Caliban escapes the City of Hades ( the capital of Inferno ), but is located by both Dr. Leving and Sheriff Kresh.

The name is derived from the Greek ( Haidēs ), Hades, the classical Greek underworld.

This hint of psi talents blossomed under stress during her captivity on the way to the prison planet Hades when she was held far apart from Nimitz ( in In Enemy Hands ), and thereafter gradually became an overt capability she initially preferred not to have, then accepted by Honor and subsequently figured out by her very closest associates.

Others, however, make the sign of the cross from the left to the right, because from misery ( left ) we must cross over to glory ( right ), just as Christ crossed over from death to life, and from Hades to Paradise.

During the Battle City arc, he uses a new deck constructed by Dark Bakura, focusing on the darker side of the occult by making extensive use of Zombies ( Undead ) and Fiends ( Demons ), some of which are based around mythological figures such as the Greek Death god Hades and The Headless Horseman, as well as monsters revolving around controversial occult issues such as death and necromancy.

Charon, also known as the ferry-man, would take the soul across the river to Hades, if the soul had gold: Upon burial, the family of the dead soul would put coins under the deceased's tongue.

For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.

Hell ( Hebrew: Sheol ; Greek: Hades, Gehenna ) is understood to refer exclusively to death and the grave, rather than being a place of everlasting torment ( see also annihilationism ).

Finally, Zeus, pressed by the cries of the hungry people and by the other deities who also heard their anguish, forced Hades to return Persephone.

Pluto ( Πλούτων, Ploutōn ) was a name for the ruler of the underworld ; the god was also known as Hades, a name for the underworld itself.

The Styx (, also meaning " hate " and " detestation ") ( adjectival form: Stygian, ) is a river in Greek mythology that formed the boundary between Earth and the Underworld ( often called Hades which is also the name of this domain's ruler ).

According to the hymn, Demeter's daughter Persephone ( also referred to as Kore, " maiden ") was gathering flowers with friends, when she was seized by Hades, the god of death and the underworld.

Zeus, pressed by the cries of the hungry people and by the other deities who also heard their anguish, forced Hades to return Persephone.

Mnemosyne also presided over a pool in Hades, counterpart to the river Lethe, according to a series of 4th century BC Greek funerary inscriptions in dactylic hexameter.

While, according to Greek mythology, The Realm of Hades is the place of the dead, Tartarus also has a number of inhabitants.

Zeus's parents were Kronos and Rhea who also were the parents of Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Hestia, and Demeter.

The word is also occasionally used as a synecdoche for Hades itself.

The name Zagreus is also an old epithet of Hades.

* Apollonius also claims that Theseus and Pirithous were trapped in Hades at the time and could not join.

This devil image is emphasized by the narrator's belief that the raven is " from the Night's Plutonian shore ", or a messenger from the afterlife, referring to Pluto, the Roman god of the underworld ( also known as Hades in Greek mythology ).

A " mythical " people also named Cimmerians are described in Book 11, 14 of Homer's Odyssey as living beyond the Oceanus, in a land of fog and darkness, at the edge of the world and the entrance of Hades.

She also put on the helmet of Hades, making her invisible to even gods.

In Greek mythology, Orphne, also known as Styx and Gorgyra, was a nymph that lived in Hades.

As with Hades, the name of the god was also used for the underworld itself.

Aita ( also spelled Eita in Etruscan inscriptions ) is the name of the Etruscan equivalent to the Greek Hades, the divine ruler of the underworld.

She holds up a pomegranate, which appears in the myth of her abduction by Hades, and is also used in the Rider-Waite deck.

" Hot gates " is also " the place of hot springs and cavernous entrances to Hades ".

This is also the place of cavernous entrances to Hades.