156 - Pluto ( Hades ) - Deus da Riqueza: A oferenda e a recompensa!!!
Pluto (em grego clássico: Πλοῦτος) ou Eniato (em grego antigo: Ἐνιάτος), na mitologia grega, era um dos filhos de Deméter e do herói Iasião (também chamado Jasio ou Iásio). Na teologia dos Mistérios eleusinos, ele é considerado como a "Criança Divina". É o deus da riqueza. Foi concebido em Creta. Pluto é um deus caridoso, que viaja sobre a terra e o mar, e quem o encontra se torna rico.[1]
Pluto é visto por Aristófanes como cego por Zeus, por querer apenas distribuir riqueza às pessoas boas. Cego, Pluto não mais distinguia as pessoas boas das más. Ele também é coxo, à medida que ele demora a chegar, e alado, então ele sai mais rápido do que veio.[2]
Quando a visão do deus é restaurada, na comédia de Aristófanes, ele é capaz de determinar quem é merecedor de riqueza, criando o caos.
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Updated January 28, 2019
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Hades
The planet Pluto was discovered in
1930, and recently re-classified by astronomers of the International
Astronomical Union (IAU) as a dwarf planet known
formally as 134340 Pluto. It was astronomers who originally named Pluto, out of
which the astrological myths are drawn. Pluto comes from a Latinized form of
the Greek Ploutōn, an alias of Hades. Its astrological influence, as the wielder of dark
justice, mirrors these ancient myths of Pluto (Roman) and its Greek
doppelganger Hades.
Pluto's
Other Names:
- Clymenus (notorious)
- Eubuleus (well-guessing)
- The Wealthy One
- The Hospitable One
- Polydegmon (The Receiver of Many Guests)
- Lord of Death
- Pluton, (the Rich One)
Both Pluto and his mythic
counterpart, Hades, share the distinction of being Lord of the Underworld. This
is quite a rich domain full of hidden treasures (all things hidden in the
psyche and Earth). The Greek word for wealth is ploutos, and rulership by the
wealthy is a plutocracy.
In Greek myths, Hades was the son of
Cronus and Rhea and didn't live on Mount Olympus with the other Gods. He
divvied up the universe with his younger brothers Zeus and Poseidon, and his
domain was the nether regions.
Terrible
Power
In ancient Greece and Rome, the true
name of the ruler of the underworld was not uttered. This was out of reverence
for its fearsome power, and so the deity would not be evoked. Hades means
“invisible” or “unseen”—it's both the keeper of and the name given by the
Greeks to the death realms.
Hades was asked to be an attendant in
funeral rituals, but otherwise, not directly courted. The ancient Greeks saw
Hades as the arbiter of justice. He was asked to avenge crimes against the
deceased, in particular if the beloved dead's name had been blackened. Hades
dealt with defamation and dishonor and could bring a reckoning to murderers, as
well.
As the dweller in the dark, Hades
fears no mortal, and all succumb to his power. That's why he's invoked against
perps that try to play God, or consider themselves above the universal laws.
Some examples might be politicians who start wars, agents who conspire in the
shadows to commit terror attacks, mob bosses, drug lords).
Pluto/Hades is a God of last resort,
called on by those who already feel they've lost everything. Its realm is
extreme transformation, and those in states of agony, despair, grief—that have
crossed the threshold into the underworld—find an ally when they're on their
knees. When you've lost your fear of dying, you are ready to meet the purifying
fires of Pluto/Hades.
The
Underworld Realm
The Greek myth is that the dying are
brought by Hermes to the banks of the River Styx. The boatman Charon was given
a coin to ferry them across the river. That's why many ancient Greeks were
buried with a coin in their mouths.
The gates of Hades are guarded by
Cerberus, the three-headed dog. According to the myth, he's friendly and wags
his tail to welcome you. But if you try to return to the land of the living,
he'll turn vicious and devour you. There's no turning back on the journey to
the underworld until the death/rebirth process is complete.
The Underworld is not "hot as Hades" like hell
depicted in the Christian tradition. It's a pastoral landscape, with rivers—one
known as River Lethe, or "Oblivion"—alongside which the most recent
life could be forgotten. There are many areas within Hades, some pleasant like
the Elysian Fields, or the Fields of Asphodel. There were darker regions,
however, for those that had violated divine law or got on Zeus' bad side.
Pluto
and Proserpina
A nearly exact myth to the Greek Hades/Persephone story is that of Pluto and Proserpina in
Roman myth. Venus sent her son Amor (a.k.a. Cupid) to shoot a love arrow at
Pluto, and open his heart to l' amour. Just as Pluto came out of the volcano
Etna riding four black horses, he saw Proserpina playing with nymphs at the
fountain of Arethusa near Enna.
Just as Hades did with Persephone,
Pluto carried off Proserpina so he could marry her and live together in Hades.
Proserpina became the Queen of the Underworld. She was also Pluto's niece since
she was the daughter of Pluto's siblings Jupiter and Ceres.
Ceres
(Demeter) Looks for Proserpina
Proserpina's mother Ceres scoured the
Earth looking for her daughter but to no avail. All she found was Proserpina's
small belt (made from nymph's tears) floating on a lake. In her grief and rage,
Ceres stopped the fruits and vegetables from growing and cursed Sicily. This
led to a dark period when everything green died, and Sicily became cold and
dark.
On top of that, Ceres did not return
to Mount Olympus, home of the Gods, but wandered the Earth in her bereft state.
She left a desert in her wake. The people were alarmed that nothing was
growing, many were starving, and they appealed to Jupiter (Proserpina's father)
for help.
Jupiter sent Mercury to the
underworld, to try to free Proserpina. But by then, she had eaten six
pomegranate seeds, and so was forced to stay, having tasted the fruits of that
realm. Jupiter threw his weight around, demanding her return. So Pluto made a
deal, saying since she took six pomegranate seeds, she'd have to stay with him
six months out of the year. So each Spring, Ceres gets her daughter back, the
crops come to fruition, and flowers bloom. But in autumn,
by Ceres hand, the leaves turn to browns and oranges, in a display that's a
gift to Proserpina before her descent back to the underworld.
Pluto's
Power
Pluto rules the shadowlands and
presides over times of extreme transformation. Among those times, physical
death is the top one, and for Romans, Pluto was the god of the dead, terminally
ill and those mortally wounded in battle.
Pluto's discovery paralleled the
development of the atom bomb. The compressed power unleashed by atomic weapons
now looms as a terrifying image in the collective imagination. It's a threat of
total annihilation.
And yet, Pluto's power to destroy is
what opens the door to rebirth. It's symbolic of extreme events that change our
lives and expose core realities. The discovery of Pluto also coincided with the
ascent of psychotherapy, where healing comes from bringing secrets into the
open.
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