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Random Thoughts: Persephone and Hades Pt 1

The classics portray Persephone as a maiden, pure, who was kidnapped and tricked by Hades and was forced to become The Queen of the Underworld for Sixth Months. But that has a lot of things wrong with it.

So let's turn that in its head. Hades is not one for petty games and crimes and lack of empathy and thought like Zues, nor is he uncontrollable and everchanging and volitile like Posiden. Instead, he is just and he is fair. He has to believe that life is precious in order for the murders and abusers to be sent to the Fields of Punishment. He has to be caring about others to give those that did good things a place in the Islands of Paradise and give them a chance to be reborn when they tire of it. He has to be kind to make the dead forget their life in the Fields of Eislym so that they will not spend their time dead waiting and grieving and hurting.

So when the apathetic (he has to be apathetic or he will fall apart) Thanatos picks you up from whence you were, you will not find a malevolent God of the Dead, you will not find someone who will look down on you from a throne, you will find a man who sits next to you on a soft couch or bed, and he will turn to you and say "Tell me everything" And he will listen, and he will get mad at the injustices and happy for you successes. And when you are done, when you have spilt every second of your life from your lips, he will hug you and give you a choice. To choose to rest, or to wait and try again. And when you step out the door of that safe place with the fireplace and the blankets, he will remember you. And he will not judge.

Hades is not the hand of Death, nor is he the creeping cold. He is not that which burns or that which drowns. He is the soft comfort of silence after a long day. He is the inviting dark and the cover of dark that reveals the stars. He is the quiet of old dusty and forgotten libraries. He is a friend. Thanks