One tradition tells of snakes coiling around their legs then turning into stone ; another that Hades feigned hospitality and prepared a feast inviting them to sit.

When Odysseus visits Hades in Odyssey 11, Achilles tells him he would rather be a farmer's servant on the face of the earth than king of Hades.

It is based on the Greek legend of Orpheus, and tells the story of his descent to Hades and his fruitless attempt to bring his dead bride Eurydice back to the living world.

They say Maira was a daughter of Atlas, and Homer makes mention of her in the passage where Odysseus tells to Alkinous his journey to Hades, and of those whose ghosts he beheld there.

The Frogs tells the story of the god Dionysus, who, despairing of the state of Athens ' tragedians, travels to Hades to bring the playwright Euripides back from the dead.

In the Apocalypse of Zephaniah, an apocryphal book which has come down to us in Coptic, the angel referred to as Eremiel tells Zephaniah I am the great angel, Eremiel, who is over the abyss and Hades, the one in which all of the souls are imprisoned from the end of the Flood, which came upon the earth, until this day

One tradition tells of snakes coiling around their legs then turning into stone ; another that Hades feigned hospitality and prepared a feast inviting them to sit.

It tells of an ersatz Heaven called " Pair-O-Dice " and its angels ' efforts to win souls from " Hades Inc ." A Stepin Fetchit caricature fails to recruit any souls in Harlem, New York City.

* Hercules: Hercules, Megara, Hades, Pain and Panic, Philoctetes, Pegasus, the Muses, Zeus, Hera, Hermes, The Fates, Nessus, the Hydra, and Bacchus.

Woods did a lot of ad-libbing in his recordings, especially in Hades ' dialogues with Megara.

At Locri, perhaps uniquely, Persephone was the protector of marriage, a role usually assumed by Hera ; in the iconography of votive plaques at Locri, her abduction and marriage to Hades served as an emblem of the marital state, children at Locri were dedicated to Proserpina, and maidens about to be wed brought their peplos to be blessed.

Zeus, it is said, advised Pluto ( Hades ) who was in love with the beautiful Persephone, to carry her off, as her mother Demeter, was not likely to allow her daughter to go down to Hades.

Persephone was gathering flowers with Artemis and Athena, the Homeric hymn says — or Leucippe, or Oceanids — in a field when Hades came to abduct her, bursting through a cleft in the earth.

Hades indeed complied with the request, but first he tricked her giving her a kernel of a pomegranate to eat.

The Sicilians, among whom her worship was probably introduced by the Corinthian and Megarian colonists, believed that Hades found her in the meadows near Enna, and that a well arose on the spot where he descended with her into the lower world.

Homer describes her as the formidable, venerable majestic queen of the shades, who carries into effect the curses of men upon the souls of the dead, along with her husband Hades.

***" Althea prayed instantly to the gods, being grieved for her brother's slaying ; and furthermore instantly beat with her hands upon the all-nurturing earth, calling upon Hades and dread Persephone " ( 9, 569 )

On Pirithous ' behalf they travelled to the underworld, domain of Persephone and her husband, Hades.

Zeus ordered Hades to return her to Demeter, the goddess of the Earth and her mother.

During the time her daughter is with Hades, Demeter became depressed and caused winter.

In the first legend, Trapani stemmed from the sickle which fell from the hands of the goddess Demeter while she was seeking for her daughter Persephone, who had been kidnapped by Hades.

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.

Before Persephone was released to Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, Hades tricked her into eating pomegranate seeds, ( six or four according to the telling ) which forced her to return to the underworld for some months each year.

The Greek god Hermes, the messenger of the gods, would take the dead soul of a person to the underworld ( sometimes called Hades or the House of Hades ).

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.

Orthodoxy teaches that, " after the soul leaves the body, it journeys to the abode of the dead ( Hades ).

Homer is somewhat vague about the precise manner of Ajax's death but does ascribe it to his loss in the dispute over Achilles's shield: when Odysseus visits Hades, he begs the soul of Ajax to speak to him, but Ajax, still resentful over the old quarrel, refuses and descends silently back into Erebus.

The term " Limbo of the Fathers " was a medieval name for the part of the underworld ( Hades ) where the patriarchs of the Old Testament were believed to be kept until Christ's soul descended into it by his death through crucifixion and freed them ( see Harrowing of Hell ).

This passage, along with the phrase in 1 Peter that God did " not leave his soul in Hades ," is the theological basis behind the statement " He descended into Hades " in the Apostles ' Creed.

The Eastern Orthodox Church teaches that there are two judgments: the first, or " Particular " Judgment, is that experienced by each individual at the time of his or her death, at which time God will decide where the soul is to spend the time until the Second Coming of Christ ( see Hades in Christianity ).

However, after Hercules, Phil, and Pegasus leave, Meg is revealed to be Hades ' minion, having sold her soul to him to save an unfaithful lover.

With Meg's soul now Hades ' property, Hercules breaks into the Underworld where he negotiates with Hades to free Meg from the Styx in exchange for his own life.

In Eastern Orthodoxy, the soul waits in the Abode of the Dead, specifically Hades, until the Resurrection of the Dead, the saved resting in light and the damned suffering in darkness.

Some forms of Judaism do not share the traditional majority Christian belief in the immortality of the soul, therefore Sheol ( Hades in the Septuagint, " the grave " in many instances in the King James Bible ) is simply the destination for all the dead, and no " problem of Sheol " exists.

As with other Jewish writings of the Second Temple period, the New Testament distinguishes two words for " hell ": Hades, the grave, and Gehenna where God " can destroy both body and soul ".

" Once dead, man's soul will go to Hades and be in the company of ," as Socrates says, "... men departed, better than those whom I leave behind.

In the Tomb with the body, and in Hades with the soul, in Paradise with the thief, and on the Throne with the Father and the Spirit, wast thou, O Christ, who art everywhere present and fillest all things.

With N Ma's soul in him, Blagel continued to take on the purple Wolzard form, and aided the Magirangers in a fight against one of the Hades Gods, but used the Heavenly saint spell syllables ( golu etc.

Eventually, Wonder Woman and Shayera free Hades, destroy the Annihilator and defeat Faust once and for all, leaving Hades to content himself torturing Faust's soul forever.

The Epicureans believed that the soul was a thin tissue of atoms that dissipated into the cosmos upon death, and that conventional mythological views of the afterlife and its geography and inhabitants were inane fictions — a view encapsulated by a funeral inscription at Rome that reads: Do not go forth nor pass along without reading me ; but stop, listen to me and do not leave before you have been instructed: there is no crossing ferry to Hades, nor Charon the ferryman, nor Aeacus holding the keys, nor the dog Cerberus.

Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.