Episode 165: Questions
Editor: Bre BoswellReleased: 10 July 2021
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Hades meets Hecate, who gave Kronos a puzzle to keep him occupied as Hades slept. She asks him how it feels to be King of the Underworld. Hades checks himself, wondering what Erebos took from him. Hecate sadly explains that that’s not what they meant and Hades admits to Persephone that he thought it would be something material due to his naivety.
Presently, Persephone asks what they took. Hades says it’s hard to tell, but first, he can’t leave the Underworld for long periods of time. He can leave for a maximum of two weeks before he starts feeling weak. Secondly, he can’t have offspring. He nervously says that he knows it’s a lot to admit, especially since he and Persephone are technically not together. He doesn’t want for her to hear it through a grapevine. Persephone goes over towards Hades and hugs him.
Persephone says she’s starving, and they leave Ancient Tartarus together. In the elevator, Persephone asks if anyone else has eaten the pomegranate. Hades says no.
In the car, she asks if Minthe was going to eat the pomegranate, since Hades was going to ask her to be his wife. Hades admits that he doesn’t think Minthe knows and that he won’t ask it of anyone.
Persephone asks if anyone can eat the pomegranate and overthrow Hades. Hades explains that the tree didn’t yield any fruit for a long time, until a hundred years ago. He also had Tartarus to conceal its location.
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They lie on the couch together and watch TV. Persephone asks that if hypothetically, they were married, would it be enough for her to be Queen. Hades says that her title would be enough to gain respect from the citizens, but not from the domain. Persephone thanks him for explaining.
She then coyly says that she doesn’t have a picture of Hades. They take a picture together, and Persephone sends it to Eros.
Eros looks at the picture and smiles. Ampelus knocks on the door and tells him his mother has a really big job for them in the Mortal Realm.
WHAT WE LEARNED
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In some versions of the myth, Hades tricked Persephone into eating six Pomegranate seeds so she’s bound in the Underworld for six months of the year. The pomegranate is also known as “the fruit of the dead.”