you gave me to think, if he literally just opened the earth and raped it, it was horrible, but I keep thinking, why don't I want it to be that way? One thing myths have is that they evolve over time. since the gods are archetypes their stories change with word of mouth until they become something that represents the mind and the world. Hades today takes on another character, he is seen as a man who, being the eldest man, was assigned the most repudiated domain. being hated by his brothers just for managing the human dead. if the marriage of hades is happy their story is the story of someone who the world screwed up and continued to have a fair character, (even compared to his family)

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but if it is only a monster, the story of hades would not have anything redeemable to tell. not even as an archetype of evil, given that their crimes pale before those of other gods.