The Underworld.
Myth does not say.His name curiously means Fierce Brightness.However he is a son of Nyx and Erebus, who dwell also in the deep region of the Underworld.
Osiris is the Egyptian god of the underworld.
Hades is a term that can be applied to the Underworld (the abode of the dead) or as a name of the God of the Underworld. There are five rivers in the Underworld, but the most well known is the river Styx. The other four are Acheron, Cocytus, Lethe, and Phlegethon.
The Greek land of the dead was sometimes called the underworld, the land of Hades, (the god who oversaw the dead), or sometimes just Hades.Hades
The Underworld
Hades Asphodel Tartarus Elysian
Myth does not say.His name curiously means Fierce Brightness.However he is a son of Nyx and Erebus, who dwell also in the deep region of the Underworld.
There is a Greek goddess of ghosts that lives in the Underworld. Her name is Melinoe.
In Greek mythology the dead go to the Underworld which is sometimes called Hades. Hades is also the name of the Greek god of the Underworld.
Osiris is the Egyptian god of the underworld.
Hades was the god who ruled over the dead as well as the Underworld, which bore his name.
Hades was the underworld; the ruler of Hades was Pluto.
Another name for the land of the dead in the Odyssey is "Hades" or the "Underworld."
Pluto
Hades was both the King of the Underworld and another name of the Underworld in which the dead resided: it was both a place the dead resided in after death, and the ruler of that place.
Hades is a term that can be applied to the Underworld (the abode of the dead) or as a name of the God of the Underworld. There are five rivers in the Underworld, but the most well known is the river Styx. The other four are Acheron, Cocytus, Lethe, and Phlegethon.
Common misconception: Hades was not the name of the god, but rather the name of his realm, the Underworld. The god's name was Pluton (latinized to Pluto) and he was lord of the underworld and all that was in it, including the dead.