as the lord of the dead, hades was greatly feared by the greeks, and he had few temples or shrines dedicated to him. he was married to the goddess persephone, the daughter of zeus and demeter. hades’ symbols were the cornucopia, a sceptre, the cypress, narcissus, poplar and his helm of darkness; the screech owl was his sacred animal. his sacred fruit was the pomegranate, the fruit that persephone ate one- third of when she was kidnapped and in the underworld.