CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Aeacus, Rhadamanthus, Katabasis
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Hades gets to control the underworld; earth shared in common, poseidon get sea, zeus the sky. Bad luck to use the name hades didn"t want to draw attention to them or associate them with underworld so euphemism. The unseen one is what they called him or sometimes pluto which literally meant wealth. They were twin brother gods, when someone dies death and sleep attend them, vase painting literal on wither side of dead body. Hermes in the center, conveyor of the soul, his job is to take u from living to world of the dead its so difficult to cross that you need divine help cuz barrier is so strongly reinforced. They don"t cause death, when u worship death you"re not worshipping who will cause you to die, greeks believed moment u die has to do with fate. Thanatos would be kind to you and help you to reach underworld if u worshiped him.
