Thread:Mesektet/@comment-3581997-20160615160106/@comment-3581997-20160926195819

Truth is if you were to associate Hades to any modern Christian entity he would be closer to a combination of The Grim Reaper and St Peter, Reaper + Impartial Judge. The Underworld was also located bellow the ground so that became an easy short hand for Hell. Add to that how Christianity demonized other religions as false gods and then tied all false gods to being farces of Satan and you have a pretty good outline of what happened to popular opinion regardless of previous doctrine.

Also keep in mind that at the time Christianity was taking hold over Polytheism it was the Dark Ages, the laid-man was unable to read or write and most of the old stories were little more than gossip and folktales so many of the old stories became warped by the newly strengthen Christian dogma.