The Goddess of Perpetual Purity and Virginity

“You were originally going to be the Goddess of Perpetual Purity and Virginity—sort of a “Mary” type.”

“Your singularity was that you were to encompass and unite both the urgency of desire and the primacy of purity. So you—in all your glory—would eventually become a target for Hades. But we were all beginning to realize we all might be targets for Hades.”

“Then Hera and I began to think seriously. What would happen if we offered you to Hades? He’d eventually get you anyway—as we feared he’d get all of us—but if we offered you to him first, what would the effect be on him?”

“Would having you calm him down?”

“Would we—by offering you to him—gain the power that we needed to protect ourselves from him? The more we thought about the plan, the more attractive it became to us.”