Hades MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Hades? Hades is an INTJ personality type in MBTI, 5w4 - sp/sx - 549 in Enneagram, RCUEI in Big 5, ILI in Socionics.
The reason why it is extremely easy to confuse him with an ISTJ is that the individual is concerned with his duties - and because he is sometimes confused with Thanatos, but that is another discussion! But if you think about it, he is the one who actually invented the laws on which the Underworld works, or that his entire attraction to the dead can be perceived as an obsessive thing; * cough * quite typical for INTJs * cough *. Ni-Te: The main problem is that Hades is usually mentioned in myths rather than making an active appearance, which is why his Ni may seem quite blind. That's why you have to focus on every action he takes in order to realize that behind all his decisions is actually a well-developed strategy or plan: It is said that at the beginning of his reign the souls of mortals tried to get out of the Underworld. What did he do? Well, he tamed a huge three-headed dog and had him guard the entrance. Pirithous once tried to kidnap his wife along with Theseus. His reaction? He chained them both to chairs with snakes after a polite serving and then threw them into Tartarus for eternal torture - at least the first one. Sisyphus was considered a cunning and intelligent king who managed to fool even death. That is, until Hades managed to make him give up and then forced him to spin a boulder to the top of a mountain indefinitely. Fi: His Fi is especially reflected in his relationship with Persephone, which is slightly ironic considering that her abduction and consumption of pomegranate seeds was most likely another plan of his. But given that it was probably the first time he had dealt with love, we can understand why the goddess came to love him only in time... or that the whole plot of the myth can be resumed as ''INTJ trying to do their feelings''. Se: Well... let's get serious now! Hades remained forever in the Underworld, avoiding any contact with humans or other gods except those he worked with and legends claim that in all his eternity he would have left his kingdom only twice. If this is not inferior undeveloped Se, then I don't know what else it could be...
Biography
Hades (pronounced hay-deez), the god of death and wealth, stands apart from the standard run of the Olympians, he's the dark half they don't usually acknowledge, because, for all of their faults, they embrace life with a passion. Hades is one of the six children of Cronus and Rhea, and the oldest of the Olympian deities. Hades appears as a large, powerfully built man, with a bushy black beard and black eyes, and he wears gold jewelry symbolizing his control over wealth. While his brothers Zeus and Poseidon rule the sky and the sea respectively, Hades is the ruler of the underworld and has some control over the earth as well. It's not a job he particularly likes, but his personality seems remarkably well suited for it. Long ago, the god of death abducted Persephone, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, and before she was rescued from his clutches, she ate of the food of the realm. Thus it is that Persephone must spend half her time in the dreary Underworld, ruling at Hades' side, and half in the exuberant world of Olympus above. Hades himself doesn't take much of an interest in anything except for Persephone. He's content to sit and brood and gaze on the shuffling masses of the countless dead, and set forth the punishments decreed by the other Greek deities on those who dared to steal glory from the gods. Unlike some deities whose portfolio includes death, Hades is not particularly malicious or hateful toward the mortals whose souls come to his realm. Death, he teaches, is the lot of all mortals, the thing that sets them apart from deities, and it must be accepted even if it brings grief. The Underworld is lifeless and dull. The Rivers Lethe and Styx flow through it, promising forgetfulness and oblivion to those who sample their waters, though few dare. In the center of the realm is a palace of gray marble, and in the audience chamber sit Hades and Persephone, waiting to deny supplicants their hearts' desires. Mortals on this or that quest sometimes ask to use Hades' helm of invisibility, forged for him by the Cyclopes in the war against the Titans. He keeps it constantly at his side, but rarely uses it. It's said he lends it out to heroes sent by other deities, but no living person has ever reported being able to gain it.
