Hades

deity underworld Christian corroborated · 39

Hades is a figure who uses Beelzebul as a secondary name for the Devil in texts of the Gospel of Nicodemus.

↻ synthesized from 39 sources

When

First attested
1400 BCE
Attested period
-1400 – 2020
Historical notes
Attested in Greek and Roman mythology.

Relationships

syncretized with
Pluto, Dís, Dis Pater, Calu, Areimanios, Angeł, Milu
manifests as
Pluto
parent of
Erinyes, Zagreus
enemy of
Demeter, Zeus
equivalent to
Aita, Beelzebul
sibling of
Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, Hestia
child of
Gaia, Cronus, Rhea
creator of
Kraken

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Sources

Source passages

“The name is used by Hades as a secondary name for the Devil”

#2320 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“In Greek and Roman mythology, Hades' three headed dog, Cerberus, was a protector of the underworld. He guarded the doors to the underworld so ruthlessly that anyone other than Hades who tried to enter through them was eaten by the dog, and any soul that tried to leave the underworld was consumed or destroyed by the hound as well.”

#4040 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Michael Janda has connected the myth of Trita to the scene in the Iliad in which the "three brothers" Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades divide the world between them, receiving the "broad sky", the sea, and the underworld respectively. Janda further connects the myth of Athena being born of the head (i. e. the uppermost part) of Zeus”

#10850 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“A single religion may have separate deities performing each tasks, as is seen in Greek mythology with Thanatos and Hades. The Greek underworld deity Hades is an especially common target due to Christian theology, in which the term 'Hades' is typically interchangeable with 'death' or 'hell'.”

#12197 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Zeus, it is said, permitted Hades, who was in love with the beautiful Persephone, to abduct her as her mother Demeter was not likely to allow her daughter to go down to Hades.”

#13034 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5