Hades
Pronunciation: 
hay'-deez
Roman Name:
Pluto
God of the Underworld & Wealth
Special Weapon:  Helmet of Invicibility
Animal: 
Cerberus
Flower: 
Narcissus
Tree: 
Cypress
Son of:
Cronus & Rhea
Wife:
Persephone
Sexual Affairs: 
Minthe (Persephone changed her into a plant called the Hedyosoms (mint)

People would avoid saying Hades name aloud when they prayed to him, they would pound their heads on the ground
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For the stoy of The Rape of Persephone, see Demeter
The Underworld
The Underworld was realm to Hades and his queen, few people who came into the Underworld hardly ever left with exception to the Furies.  The Underworld is seperate from the world above by five rivers.
Acheron- the river of woe

Cocytus- the river of lamentation'

Phlegethon- the river of fire

Styx- the river of unbreakable oath by which the gods swear

Lethe- the river of forgetfullness
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