Hades

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Hades was god of the dead. He was the son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Hades was also the brother of Zeus and Poseidon. The three brothers divided up the universe after the death of Cronus. Hades was given the underworld. He and his queen ruled the kingdom of the dead. Hades was known also as Pluto, lord of riches, because both crops and precious metals were believed to come from his kingdom below ground.

The underworld itself was often called Hades. The underworld was divided into two regions. Erebus was where the dead pass as soon as they died. Tartarus was the deeper region, where the Titans had been imprisoned. Tartarus was inhabited shadows and guarded by Cerberus, the three-headed, dragon-tailed dog. Sinister rivers separated the underworld from the world above, and the aged boatman Charon ferried the souls of the dead across these waters.

(http://www.pantheon.org/articles/h/hades.html) (http://www.loggia.com/myth/hades.html)