This week, on Myths and Legends, we're back in the stories of the Olympians with Hades.

We'll see it's not a great idea to threaten a king and then get drunk with him,

and that, when your only friends are your employees and that person you kidnapped,

it might be time for a change.

The creature this time is why friends don't try to trap friends with secret magic.

Music Friends don't try to trap friends with secret magic. This is Myths and Legends, episode 396, Hades 2.

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Today, we're back in the backstories of the Olympians, the 12 gods that rule over everything in Greek mythology.

Today, it's Hades, the god of the dead and the underworld, and, well, we'll get to all of his

roles.

But for right now, we're going to jump into him saying goodbye.

The pair, Hades and Persephone, the king of the underworld, and his consort,

saw the shaft of light up ahead.

Hades' hand found hers and then lost it again, when she pulled it away, again. even that brief moment they were together though it was exhilarating he knew why she was mad this trip was always a reminder the one time the

one thing he ever did wrong he sigh sighed. His brothers, his brothers took women all the time.

Zeus flew into their bedrooms as swans or changed into their husbands.

Poseidon attacked Medusa and even Persephone's own mother when they were both in the form of horses.

And Hades went to Zeus, Persephone's father,

and asked for her hand. And he said yes, it wasn't an abduction, it was a betrothal. He could admit that

when it came to their little meat cute, him clawing up from the widening hole in the ground

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