What is it that Hades cannot live without?

'Don't look back' is a mythic trope that transcends time and culture. The Genesis account of Lot's wife and the Japanese myth Izanagi and Izanami were not influenced by Greek mythology. You even see it in Spirited Away. read more

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But like Gehenna, Hades is a place of fire and torment. Despite an impassable chasm, communication goes on between Heaven and Hades but implicitly not between Hades and earth. Luke 16 is the only place to describe Hades as a place of torment, yet it does not indicate whether all who go there will suffer, or just bad people like the rich man. read more

Hades was the only Greek god not to reside on Mount Olympus, dwelling instead in a dark palace beneath the earth. In mythology, Hades fell in love with Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter, and abducted her to live with him. read more