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Hades: The Greek Kings Of Wealth

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Hades is one of the kings son named Cronus. He have two more brothers named Zeus and Poseidon. Cronus the father was always concern about the universe. He became weak and started to meet the under ground. The underground was another god named Thanatos. Poseidon was the one that says who die and who doesn 't dies. The Erinnyes was visitors at the kingdom. These people called Greeks was scared to make anything with Poseidon are they will be dead sooner and meet the underground. Plouton is another Greek word defining the word of wealth. Thus and Hades became very strong kings of wealth. Hades preferred the underworld and rarely left his kingdom. Thus weapon was a pitchfork, which he used to make earthquakes, similar to his big brother Poseidon.

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