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Holy molly. In excited for this one.
The Demigod was mentioned earlier: Demophon.
It's not because they're Evil: it's just because you don't want to Die.
It's like calling out to Death and trying to get his attention.
The baby she was turning into a demigod isn't a major character, but he does have an important role that's not mentioned in this video. In some tellings Demeter teaches his family agriculture to pass on to humanity. That way people can grow and store food to survive the winter.
My personal theory is that Hades was invented as literally just the abductor of Persephone.
The logic goes like this:
So, we know that Hades' most significant myth was the abduction of Persephone, yet his role in the same myth is almost negligible in spite of being the very one who sets off the plot. We also know that he does not figure into the Mycenæan texts, even though his wife and mother-in-law both do. Yet, the Eleusinian mysteries, and therefore likely the myth of Persephone's descent to the underworld do date back to the Bronze Age.
There is actually a perfectly plausible explanation for why the presence of Hades would have been considered unnecessary to the Mycenæans, but not to the Hellenes. I believe that the Eleusinian mysteries were originally simply about Persephone dying and coming back from the dead. However, to the Hellenes, this would've been totally inconsistent with her status as a goddess.
You see, the defining feature of the Greek gods was that they were immortal. "God" and "immortal" meant the same thing. That is the reason why the Titans were specifically said to have been sealed into Tartarus instead of simply destroyed – because they could not be, even by other gods who managed to beat them. Contrast this with, for example, Teutonic myths where the Æsir are not only very killable, they are actually destined to die when the Giants come marching for Asgård at the end of the world. It is possible that the concept of the Theoi being inherently immortal was an Iron Age development that wasn't there in the Bronze Age.
As such, while the concept of Persephone dying and then returning after six months had passed might make sense to us and might've made sense to the Mycenæans, it did not make sense to the Hellenes, as she's a goddess, how could she just die? But since her descent to the Underworld was such a important aspect of her character and her cult, there had to be a different reason why she would go down to the Underworld. So they came up with the Lord of the Dead (separate from Persephone herself) who would capture her with the intention of making her his wife.
Hades was THE most feared Greek God due to his strict and stern nature, and his VERY dutiful side. Unlike his two brothers, Hades actually kept to himself and rarely interacted with mortals. Also unlike other gods, Hades was actually a loving and loyal husband to Persephone. He only NEARLY cheated on her, but on those cases, Hades wasn't the one hitting on the nymphs
The fear of Hades was even extended to some of the most powerful monsters of Greek mythology and even the TITANS themselves. Apart from Cerberus preventing souls from leaving the Underworld, the Titans actually REFUSED to try and escape out of fear of Hades
In many ancient pagan cultures, saying something by name or saying their name a certain number of times (like 3) ritually, is how to summon or communicate with them. This was true of gods, demons, faeries, and in more modern folk tales Bloody Mary, Beetlejuice or Voldemort. So if they are someone scary, its best to give them an epithet and not get their attention.
My head canon is that Persephone was a goth-chick bad girl, but always acted innocent in front her mom who thought she was just a flower goddess. Then she ran away with her boyfriend Hades, who was trying to look like a tough guy to impress her. So Zeus and Hecate tried to cover up and explain the couple eloping to Demeter, and made up the pomegranate rules as an excuse to say Persephone couldn't stay with her mom all year.
Kidnapping even in fairly recent times was seen very differently culturally. Girls were to some extent considered their father's "property" until they were married. So anyone running away and marrying without the father's permission was seen as kidnapping. This was changed to some extent when the church could officially marry someone without the father's consent, but it was still a very big deal to get the father's permission even into the 20th century. But at the same time in ancient times kidnapping a wife was also seen as a macho manly thing to do, and earned respect. The Trojan War myth has kidnapping left and right and is of course started by "kidnapping" of Helen of Troy. So its kind of hard to say the context in Hades and Persephone. Her mom didn't give permission, but her dad did, and back then no one really cared enough to write down what she wanted.
he's the accountant of the dead
Yeah it was basically a part of the Spartan educational regime to be in a relationship ship with your uncle, and then when your old to do it with your teen nephew, and it was common in all Greek cultures but for Spartans it was like a legal requirement