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Artemis for Kennebec7 (#2)

By Peter Alexander of Kennebec Entertainment

(The Decline and Fall of Hades)

Part 1

I am back to speak to you once again due to the whining of sister Persephone who has been off and on your planet more times than you can count due to her numerous earthly experimentations with love and death. She has feelings for you mortals, having been one on many occasions since she escaped Hades and renounced her queenship of that moldy and tenebrous domain.

Persephone, ‘Goddess of Innocence and Queen of the Underworld.’ How’s that for an oxymoron? No wonder the girl has always been so confused.

In case you’ve forgotten the story, or never heard of it, educational standards resting in the pits as they are, Persephone was a twelve--year old lass who didn’t even have a real name yet. Our mother was Demeter, responsible goddess that she was, who taught humans how to take seeds and grow food. ‘High concept,’ that was, back in the day.

My uncle Hades, meanwhile, had been shunted to his Kingdom beneath the earth by his brother Zeus. Imaginatively, Hades named his kingdom after himself. Something was amiss, Hades realized. The light bulb flashed above his head. Brother Zeus was up there in the world of light with maidens and all sorts of animals he could screw, while Hades waited in the dark for dead people to be brought to him.

Hapless Hades, lonely in the Underworld, rather ugly by the standard of Greek gods, saturnine and mean-spirited, got off for a while by lifting weights. Large stones. But that got old rather quickly. He bitched to Zeus. He wanted a wife. Dear Dad, the big Z, he had about a hundred of them, not all of them human.

No goddess wanted to marry Hades, so the King of the Underworld resolved to take a girl by force. He fancied Seph. No matter that he was Persephone’s uncle and she was a daughter of Zeus. He went to Big Daddy and Zeus said, Why not?

Seph, meanwhile, unwitting fawn that she was, was merrily engaged in picking flowers on the island of Sicily with her chums, the Oceanids, when a chariot driven by her uncle burst through the earth, and he snatched her.

Most of this, by the way, is in Burning Memory, the movie script Kennebec Entertainment is hoping to make into a film. They implore me not to tell too much, and spoil the surprises they have in store in this story, which is already well known ‘mythology,’ although I guarantee to you that Persephone suffered many a real heartache on earth due to the trauma induced by that reprobate husband/uncle, the Rapist. He thought Seph might stop bawling, tearing her hair out, rending her garments, if he officially made her Queen of the Damned. Mr. Sensitivity.
Well let me tell you the back story…or the anti-climax, whatever you prefer.

Years after the Greek Gods faded from the scene, they did not cease to exist. Christianity and Islam came in, for better or for worth. I’m not going to address that sore subject today. However, Hades was immortal, or almost, and the hellhole still kept operating. Daddy Z, in fact, had an office in San Francisco, which served as a sort of Amnesty center for confused gods like Apollo. I stayed out of it, playing in my own universe, only occasionally visiting earth. Seph fell in and out of love with a number of mortals, always looking for that real thing that poets claim is extant. (Let’s hear it for Eros! He’s actually an obese child these days.)

Zeus, now operating as ‘Zeke’ closed his office for lack of business and retreated to Hades, where my uncle was calling himself ‘Hal.’ What a rat trap Hades had become.

Let me use Kennebec’s description of Hal because it’s pretty close to the real thing: An unfiltered cigarette dangling from his lips, Hal, a sharp-faced man with long white hair tied in a ponytail and a naturally shifty smile on his face, drinks beers with two elderly men, who are among the living dead. They sit in a sleazy tavern with folding chairs and stained Formica tables. The sparse clientele consists of strange-looking rural men (Think ‘Deliverance’) mostly intoxicated and over sixty-five. A TV in the background shows a female mud-wrestling event.

That’s what had become of Hades in the modern age. However Hades remained dangerous despite his good-ole-boy guise. When Zeke rejoined him, Hal saw an opportunity to rejuvenate his realm.

This is not what the Universe intended. Not for today. I gathered up Persephone, immersed in her earthly doldrums, and set out for Hades (Both of them). To make things right once and for all. And that event shall be a story for another day.

Artemis
Out of this World
04/14/2010

Contributor's Note

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It will be interesting to read how you make Hades right once and for all.
Thank you for sharing.
Keep up the good work.
Best wishes.
Frederick

Thanks Frederick for following our adventures. In the next installment, I can't tell you precisely how Artemis deals with Hades, because that would spoil the surprise that is in our movie project. However, there are hints. -Peter

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