Do you know how athens mostly worshiped athea but still worshed the other gods what city stat worshed hades?

Question

Do you know how athens mostly worshiped athea but still worshed the other gods what city stat worshed hades?

Answer 1

I don't think that there was a city-state which specifically worshipped Hades.

Answer 2

I don't know of any that worshiped Hades above all others. None of the majors.

Answer 3

Hades was the God of the underworld. They feared him. I don't think there was a city that worshiped him.

Answer 4

Hades was mostly worshiped in places where there were caves, because these lead to the underworld.  These caves were named after Haron , the one who carried the dead to the underworld. I read that the only city that dedicated a temple to Hades was Hillia ( Ηλεία ) because they thought the God saved them from Hercules. But even they, just opened the temple for worship once a year. Hades was not a very popular God.

Answer 5

Hades -or Pluto was a fearful god.People did respect him but even when they made sacrifices to him they were turning their heads the other way during the killing of the animal (usually a black sheep).I really don't think that an entire city would have him as protector.It would be considered bad luck..

Answer 6

this is a slightly misunderstood question and the answers are equally slightly misunderstood. You will be aware of the triple faced goddess (hecate etc) but Greek mythology also had triple faced gods. The story of Paris and the golden apple is a good example of this: he is greeted by the triple goddess Aphrodite, Hera and athena. there are other triples, artemis, Selene, hecate, the three Erinnyes, Moirae, charities, then even possible 3 aspects to Persephone, Demeter and Hecate and Therefore Zeus , Poseidon and Hades can sometimes be seen as a triple. This represents the division of the world- earth, sky and sea. It is an olderv tradition of the olympian divinities than the ones we have written down, and probably the appearance of writing tended to focus cities on specific deities to the exclusion of the triples...

In miodern Greece there has been a revival of the Olympian cult and the 12 deities. Even the former archbishop of Athens, Christodoulous claimed that the Olympians were venerated in the way that early Christians used the stones from the temples to build their churches. This, of course, simply puts a nationalist angle on the debateand the archbishop's contribution was largely laughable, but it is certainly true that many early churches "christianized" the pagan sites. I remember on the tayegettos mountains, seeing the site of altars to the gods that had been turned into churches for the prophet Elijah.