Aren't Satan and Hades the same thing?

Answer 1

No.

Hades (the god) was the lord of the underworld, where ALL dead people went, not just the "bad" people.

Satan was an angel cast out of heaven to become an "adversary" (what Satan actually means) to man. He has nothing to do with Hades.

Also, Satan is an angel, Hades is a god.

So no, they are definately not the same thing.

Answer 2

I understand why you're asking this, as Hades is the Greek god of death and thereby Lord of the Underworld (which is also called Hades), and Satan is the Lord of Hell, of course. But the Greek Underworld was not like Christian Hell; rather like Norse Hel or Jewish Sheol - the place where the souls of the dead went (a shady region). And though some were tortured there, there was no hellfire. Also important is the fact that Hades was a *god*, not a devil. He may not have been a popular god, but he was a god nonetheless. He was a brother of the supreme god, Zeus, and not "the Enemy" (the literal translation of the word "Satan"). The Greeks had no devils; they deified *everything*, not just the things the Christian deems "good".

Answer 3

Satan is a figure in Christianity. He's a fallen angel who will eventually be sentenced to live in Hell forever. Hades has a place in Christianity as the name of the place where people go when they die; it's sort of a holding place before they go to Heaven or Hell. Hades is also a figure in Greek and Roman mythology. He is the god of the dead and the underworld; he's also the brother of Zeus. Hades is also a reference to the underworld itself, "ruled by Pluto [Hades] and Persephone, located either underground or in the far west beyond the inhabited regions. It was separated from the land of the living by the rivers Styx, Lethe, Acheron, Phlegethon, and Cocytus."

So as living figures, they're different because they fit into different storylines, Satan into Christianity and Hades into Greek/Roman mythology. Hades is also a reference to a place, while Satan is only referred to as a living being. Also, Hades is said to rule the underworld, not just Hell, and Satan will simply be sentenced to Hell, he doesn't rule it.

Answer 4

NO. Hades, son of Cronus and Rhea, is god of the underworld in Greek mythology. This underworld is also known as hades.

Satan, a being created as a minister by the Hebrew G-d is a spirit who, according to the story, dwelt first in heaven and was then cast down to earth where he resides to this day under various names - including the adversary, the devil, the prince of demons, the prince of this world and the prince of the power of the air. He is also known as Lucifer, an angel of light and last but not least the "god of this world. " He then has nothing to do with the underworld

Satan was credited with holding the keys to death and hell which were taken from him by the Christ following His death at Calvary. Hell, as opposed to the myth of hades, is a place prepared by God for the devil and his angels- not a place over which Satan rules. Satan was, however, the gatekeeper.

The word hell stems from the Hebrew Sheol and also the word Gehenna, The confusion on this stems from the introduction of the Greek word Hades in the New Testament and context shifts in passages when the word Sheol is found..

Sheol can be termed the place of the dead much like Hades.
The two words sometimes only refer to the grave and in general to the unseen world. Hades is thus used in the New Testament.

The place of punishment however is Gehenna.

Use of the word hell in the Bible can be somewhat misleading because Sheol in some Old Testament passages seems also to imply some type of punishment. Therefore the translators sometimes translated shoel as the grave and other times as hell.

As Popeye, I believe, said. "Yuh puts your money down and yuh takes your choice."

Bottom line: Satan and Hades are not the same thing whether they be beings or places of abode. Regardless of your beliefs don't confuse your story lines. My comments are "down and dirty" but I think Wikipedia may need a rewrite on this subject.

Spell check is not working and I can't hang longer. Forgive sp please.

Answer 5

Apart from Satan being christian and Hades being Greek, Yes. Oh, and Hades is more of a person with a History, whereas Satan is a bit of an idea.

Answer 6

Satan is to Hades as George W is to the White House

Answer 7

In Greek mythology Hades is the RULER of the underworld. Other interpretations identify Hades as the place and Pluto and Pesephone as the rulers. In the case of Satan, he is defined in Jewish and Christian literature as one of God's own who went bad and became an active enemy against God and good. So he is not just a ruler of an underworld where the fallen suffer - but rules evil everywhere and has an agenda to battle that which is good. Confusing, huh?

Answer 8

Satan is the embodiment of pure evil, a fallen angel, in Christianity. Formerly known as Lucifer, the Light-bearer, he told God "I will not serve" and "Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven." He is the ruler of Hell, a location/state of being of pure damnation.

Hades, on the other hand, is a neutrally moral Greek god, who rules over the morally populated but amorally ruled realm of Tartarus, guarded by Cerberus. In Tartarus exist shades, spirits of men who have died, who live in the lonely realm. They are not necessarily damned, however; such a thing is the will of the Greek gods, and therefore is case by case, even in Tartarus.

So they are different. Satan is evil and rules a torturous realm, whereas Hades is semineutral (although a bad egg, to be sure) and runs a sort of "waiting for the final verdict" afterlife.

I suggest that people stick to saying how they are different and avoiding discussion in this topic of whether what they represent to the human mind really exists or not.

Answer 9

In a strictly literary sense - no. Satan is a name for the devil and Hades is a name for hell.

In a philosophical sense, they may be the same thing. Both words represent evil and have come to mean a much larger concept than just their original name connotations.

More interestingly, do they even exist? Is the concept of evil something that humans have invented to manifest their innermost fears? Before you jump up and yell "NO!", think back through history and some of the ludicrous things that have been labeled evil throughout the centuries, things which appear incredibly non-evil to us today. Just as examples, the study of science (The Church: witchcraft, evil), the concept of women being educated (depending on which historical period, corrupt, blasphemous, heresy, etc.). Does the concept of evil begin where our understanding ends and our fears take over?

Answer 10

Satan is a dude, Hades is a place. Also.. I have to correct tihs.. Hades is NOT hell! Hades is where ALL of the dead go in Greek Mythology, and in Hades there is both Elysium (heaven) and Tartarus (Hell) in it!

I guess Technically Hades/Pluto is a dude also, but Still, he is the king of the underworld, not only Tartarus (hell)