Is Hades a guy or a girl?

The name Hades is primarily a male name of Greek origin that means Sightless.

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What was Hades real name?

Hades, Greek Aïdes (“the Unseen”), also called Pluto or Pluton (“the Wealthy One” or “the Giver of Wealth”), in ancient Greek religion, god of the underworld.

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Why is Hades infertile?

He also owns all the mines and can materialize diamonds. Hades is infertile. This is possibly due to him being the God of the Dead, and therefore, he can't produce life. Hades visits the Mortal Realm once a year to inspect volcanoes.

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Does Hades ever cheat on his wife?

In Ovid's famous text Metamorphosis, Hades has an affair with a young Nymph named Minthe. Persephone, now in her later years, was so incensed with jealousy that she turned Minthe into a mint plant.

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Who was Hades's girlfriend?

Persephone, Latin Proserpina or Proserpine, in Greek religion, daughter of Zeus, the chief god, and Demeter, the goddess of agriculture; she was the wife of Hades, king of the underworld.

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Is Hades hot or cold?

King of the underworld

Hades was portrayed as passive and never portrayed negatively; his role was often maintaining relative balance. That said, he was also depicted as cold and stern, and he held all of his subjects equally accountable to his laws.

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How many child does Hades have?

Who were Hades and Persephone's children? Persephone and Hades had two children; one daughter, Melinoë,and one son, Zagreus. Melinoë became the goddess of nightmares and madness. Zagreus was a minor Greek god.

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How old is Hades god?

Hades is immortal and does not age. He is most often depicted to look like a man at the peak of his strength and maturity.

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What gender is Zeus?

Zeus is depicted with both fe- male and male aspects as he gives birth to the goddess Athena. Zeus is blessed by female embodiments of birth even as he completes birth in his own male way.

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Who is the Greek gender god?

The Greeks believed that Hermaphroditus was the physical representation of marriage, merging a man and a woman through a sacred union. The intersex god is most often depicted in art as having a woman's body with breasts, long hair, and feminine legs, but with the genitals of a man.

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Who is Hades jealous of?

Hades is jealous about his brothers successfulness in their lives like how us humans are with our siblings. Overall, Hades was always envious of his brothers because of their accomplishments compared to his unluckiness.

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What does Hades smell like?

Hades Scent

Hades contains notes of belladonna, amber, oak moss, orris, opium, cypress, and narcissus. The scent has a dream like quality and smells more like silver stardust than death and decay.

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Who is older Zeus or Hades?

Zeus had several brothers and sisters who were also powerful gods and goddesses. He was the youngest, but the most powerful of three brothers. His oldest brother was Hades who ruled the Underworld. His other brother was Poseidon, god of the sea.

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Was Hades a good husband?

Hades: The Most Loyal Greek God

The Greek god Hades is comparatively a better husband than his peer gods. Whilst Zeus and Poseidon – Hades' brothers – are widely known for their affairs, Hades remained loyal to Persephone.

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What is Hades weakness?

Hades's strengths include his wealth of the earth, especially precious metals; persistence; and determinedness. His weaknesses include his passion for Persephone (also known as Kore), the daughter of Demeter and Zeus, and his own niece. (He kidnaps her to be his wife.) Hades is also impulsive and deceptive.

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Who lost her daughter to Hades?

Demeter could no longer see her daughter and missed her hugely. She was so sad, it affected the harvest across Greece. Crops, fruit and nature all stopped growing. She went to Zeus, the king of the gods, to ask him to help get her daughter back from Hades.

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Is Hades married to his niece?

Hades became the ruler of the Underworld. Hades was married to his niece, Persephone, whom he abducted [See Demeter].

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Who killed Hades?

Haides was also the god of the hidden wealth of the earth, from the fertile soil with nourished the seed-grain, to the mined wealth of gold, silver and other metals. Haides was devoured by Kronos (Cronus) as soon as he was born, along with four of his siblings.

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What is Hades favorite pet?

In Greek mythology, Cerberus (/ˈsɜːrbərəs/; Greek: Κέρβερος Kérberos [ˈkerberos]), often referred to as the hound of Hades, is a multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving.

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Did Hades fall in love?

According to mythology, Hades, god of the Underworld, fell in love with beautiful Persephone when he saw her picking flowers one day in a meadow.

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Who stole Hades wife?

Zeus and Demeter both play a role in her marriage to Hades and her life in the underworld. Persephone was abducted by Hades when he saw her in a meadow picking wildflowers. He was completely enamored in her beauty and chose to abduct her by opening up the earth to the underworld where she was picking flowers.

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How many wives did Zeus have?

Seven wives

According to Hesiod, Zeus takes Metis, one of the Oceanid daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, as his first wife.

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Is Hades Manipulative?

Hades is normally cynical, sarcastic, manipulative, and ruthless, but he has a serious anger management problem. As an Olympian God, he is immortal and specifically has authority over the dead.

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