![]() ![]() Of works unseen and seen thy power alone to be the great dispending source is known. O mighty Daimon, whose decision dread, the future fate determines of the dead, with Demeter's girl captive, through grassy plains, drawn in a four-yoked car with loosened reins, rapt over the deep, impelled by love, you flew till Eleusinia's city rose to view: there, in a wondrous cave obscure and deep, the sacred maid secure from search you keep, the cave of Atthis, whose wide gates display an entrance to the kingdoms void of day. Thy throne is fixed in Haides' dismal plains, distant, unknown to the rest, where darkness reigns where, destitute of breath, pale spectres dwell, in endless, dire, inexorable hell and in dread Akheron (Acheron), whose depths obscure, earth's stable roots eternally secure. To thee, great king, all sovereign earth assigned, the seat of gods and basis of mankind. 'Tis thine abundant annual fruits to bear, for needy mortals are thy constant care. Earth's keys to thee, illustrious king, belong, its secret gates unlocking, deep and strong. ![]() Zeus Khthonios (of the Underworld), thy sacred ear incline, and pleased accept these sacred rites divine. Plouton, magnanimous, whose realms profound are fixed beneath the firm and solid ground, in the Tartarean plains remote from sight, and wrapt for ever in the depths of night. This page describes his various divine roles, beginning with general descriptions of the lord of the dead, followed by sections covering his role as the god of funeral rites, necromancy, the curse of the Erinyes, dreams, and the mineral wealth of the earth.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES HYMNS TO HADES HAIDES (Hades) was the king of the underworld and god of the dead. Pluto, Dis Persephone and Hades, Athenian red-figure kylix C5th B.C., British Museum ![]()
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