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“Stern, not wicked.” Hades, Plouton, the Giver of Wealth.
The story behind the line. Hades is the Greek king of the underworld, brother of Zeus and Poseidon. The old stories make him stern and unmoved by prayers, but not evil: he rules the dead, he doesn't torment them. He got mixed up with the devil partly because Greek translations of the Bible used the word 'Hades' for the Hebrew Sheol.
Hades (Ἅιδης) is the ancient Greek king of the underworld, brother of Zeus and Poseidon and husband of Persephone. The Greeks called him 'the Unseen' and often addressed him as Plouton, the Wealthy One, because grain and metal rise from the earth he rules. He is stern and unmoved, not wicked: the ruler of the dead, never the Christian devil. Vase painters show him as a bearded king enthroned in a long robe, holding a sceptre and a horn of plenty.
The design and its line printed in a single ink on a heavyweight garment-dyed Comfort Colors tee in soft, lived-in colours: gold on the deep dyes, warm ink on the pale ones.
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Three ways to wear it: the classic tee is soft and lightweight ($29); the garment-dyed tee is heavier, with a softly faded, lived-in colour ($36); the garment-dyed one-ink tee prints the design and its line in a single ink, in soft earthy colours ($34).
