Side by side, from the sources
Abaddon vs Hades
These two are identified with one another in the record, which is not the same as being the same figure. The Greek of Revelation puts Abaddon and Hades in adjacent roles.
Demonic · Infernal Court · c. 400 BCE
Abaddon
also called Apollyon, The Destroyer
A place-name in the Hebrew Bible — 'destruction', a synonym for the grave — that Revelation personifies as the king of the locusts of the pit.
- Alignment
- Disputed
- Rank
- Angel of the Abyss
- First attested
- Hebrew Bible & Deuterocanon · c. 900–100 BCE
- Named there as
- Abaddon
- Texts naming it
- 2
- Powers attributed
- 3
Deity · Greek · c. 700 BCE
Hades
also called Aidoneus, Plouton, Pluton
Ruler of the dead by lot rather than by punishment — a god of the underworld who is not evil, a distinction Christian cosmology cannot express.
- Alignment
- Disputed
- Rank
- Lord of the Underworld
- First attested
- The Iliad · c. 750 BCE
- Named there as
- Aïdes
- Texts naming it
- 4
- Powers attributed
- 3
Where do they actually overlap?
Texts naming both
None. The two never appear in the same text in this corpus, which is worth knowing before accepting any confident claim that they are one figure.
Powers credited to both
No shared office is recorded. Where two figures are said to be the same and share no job description at all, the identification is usually doing polemical work rather than descriptive work.