#plouton

[mikeybooch]

Persephone and Hades tending the soil after a harvest in order to ensure the bounty of the following year's harvest, maintaining the cycle of death and rebirth.

[thetelesterion]

A votive relief depicting Haides/Aidoneus, driving a chariot pulled by chickens. In his hand, he holds a cornucopia, a symbol of agricultural fertility. Dated to the 2nd century CE. Located in the Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum

[theogonyofbeauty]

Hades, the god of the Greek underworld, was the first-born son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea.

[wrathful-warhound]

Plouton

[panolepsy]

Chthonic & Chthonian Theoi

What is the difference, why does it matter?

Many people — including me up until maybe 2-4 months ago did not know there was a difference in the words chthonic and chthonian.

Let me first explain why it is so important to separate the words and meanings.

We need to first recognize that this does not only play part in the religion, but it is also an ancient language.

Switching the words or meanings, or even just ignoring them all together is harmful of the language and ancient culture.

Now we will get into CHTHONIC

Many people, which included me — thought this word meant underworld gods. Which makes sense since when you only search up the meaning of the word, most people only look at the ai overview which concludes that this word means underworld.

This is incorrect, looking into the Oxford handbook we can see that the word actually has ties into the country, it is relating to agricultural theoi.

Χθών .. khthṓn .. khthonic .. chthonic

Now, chthonian. It’s the same issue, many people don’t know I didn’t know and so on.

This is what people think chthonic means, it means indigenous to the underworld.

χθόνιος .. khthónĭos .. khthonian .. chthonian

Further add onto why this matters

When studying scholarly books like Ancient Greek Cults by Jennifer Larson, Sharing with the Gods Aparchai and Dekatai in Ancient Greece by Theodora Suk Fong Jim, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion Esther Eidinow and Julia Kindt, and MANY MANY other books, we can see chthonian used to speak of the underworld gods.

In the same books + Smoke Signals for the Gods Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods F. S. Naiden we can see chthonic used in the context of agricultural gods.

Though I do want to add that these titles do not have a set deity list of course, for example Poseidon has a CHTHONIC epithet during a festival to protect sea side plants… but he isn’t JUST a chthonic god, the same way hades isn’t just a CHTHONIAN god, but his CHTHONIC counterpart Plouton existed and that’s what was worshipped rather then hades. Some gods like the furies were ONLY CHTHONIAN, and some gods like Gaia were ONLY CHTHONIC.

This all is just to help make sense of scholarly text… and not spread misinfo.

[brimo5]

The other Zeus #2

Io's black suitor

#1-#2

Black Zeus in Sophocles' Inachos, p24-26

[It should be noted that the connection between the black Zeus and the god of the underworld is not yet settled. It is worth considering the connection between Plouton and Osiris mentioned by Plutarch. While people are aware of this connection, they tend to accept it in a more subtle manner.]

[deethewitch]

𝘿𝙚𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙖 𝘿𝙖𝙮: 𝙃𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙨

Hades is the Olympian King of the Underworld, he's also the God of the dead(NOT the God OF Death), wealth, Funeral rites, Necromancy, Spirits, Curses and the Erinyes, Dreams, Metals, and the Earth's Fertility. 𝔈𝔭𝔦𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔰 💀Aidoneus - The Unseen One 💀Plouton - Of Wealth 💀Theon Khthonios - God of the Underworld 💀Zeus Khthonios - Zeus of the Underworld 💀Polysemantor - Ruler of Many 💀Polyxenos - Host of Many 💀 Necrodegmon - Receiver of the Dead 💀Necron Soter - Saviour of the Dead 💀Agesander - One who Carrys Away All 💀Isodetes - He Who Binds Equally ℭ𝔲𝔩𝔱 ℭ𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔰 💀Athens 💀Eleusis 💀Corinth 💀Mycenae 💀Troezen 💀Hermione 💀Amyklai 💀Elis 💀Mt. Minthe 💀Olympia 💀Koroneia 💀Thesprotia 💀Akharaka(Anatolia) 💀Heriopolis(Anatolia) 💀Kyme(Italy) 𝔖𝔞𝔠𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔓𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔱𝔰 💀Asphodel 💀Mint 💀White Poplar 💀Elm 💀Pomegranate 𝔖𝔞𝔠𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔄𝔫𝔦𝔪𝔞𝔩𝔰/𝔖𝔶𝔪𝔟𝔬𝔩𝔰 💀Screech Owl 💀Horses 💀Kereboros 💀Cattle 💀Helm of Hades 💀Throne 💀Keys ℭ𝔯𝔶𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔩𝔰 💀Iron 💀Hematite 💀Pyrite 💀Onyx 💀Black Tourmaline 💀Obsidian 𝔉𝔲𝔫 𝔉𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔰 💀In Ancient Greece, it was taboo to say Hades' name, this is why it is common to see Authors call him Plouton, which is an epithet of his meaning "Of Wealth", or Aidoneus, meaning "The Unseen One". 💀Hades has a sacred Helm, which is enchanted with invisibility, it was one of the three gifts given to the Kings of the three realms(Zeus, Poseidon, Hades), which the Kyklopes gave to aid in the Olympians defeat of the Titans in the Titanomachy. 💀Despite people in Ancient Greece generally not speaking of Hades, this did not mean there was no worship or offerings to him, the Ancients greatly respected Hades, but did not want to invite death to their home by speaking of it, so many of the practices were done in private, and in secret.

[the-fire-within0]

"In honour of the Under Ruler, with his Lady; King Hades and Queen Persephone."