Pluto represents powerful, hidden forces beyond our control and is named after the Roman god of the uderworld. It is associated with life, death, and renewal (Bruce-Mitford 113).

Hades was the sovereign of the underworld, and was also called Pluto (see below under the Roman section). He ruled as absolute master over his domain, and was quite happy there. He would, however, come out from the Underworld when he had the impulse to. But he would remain unseen because his helmet made him invisible (on an interesting note, his name broken down refers to the verb "so see" and the privative prefix "a") (Hamlyn 189).


Source: Dr. Vollmer's Wörterbuch der Mythologie aller Völker.
Stuttgart: Hoffmann'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1874.

Pluto is the Greek god of the underworld. His name was derived from the word meaning "riches." He would receive all buried treasure and was then considered the god of agricultural wealth where he would have great influence on cultivation and crops (Hamlyn 189).

People were afraid to say his real name because they were afraid it might attract his attention. Black sheep were offered to him as sacrifices. Pluto was known as a pitiless god because if a mortal entered his Underworld they could never hope to return (Lindermans "Pluto").