Talk:Hercules (Mythology)/@comment-5232784-20130513065526

Actually: though the Hercules used here is indeed not a God, but a Demigod (as Drao correctly noted when he edited this page), in the myths, Hercules (the Roman name; in ancient Greece, he was Herakles) upon his death plit into two essences: one a ghost or shade of the underworld, the other half, the divine half, was taken to Olympus and indeed became a deity, one of the Olympian Gods. It was said that when this happened, Atlas was momentarily shaken by the weight; Hercules had his own cult in the ancient world.

Nevertheless, the Hercules we have here on DF is pure Demigod, and is also the version of Hercules that had the famous journeys, battles, advantures that most know about, so It fits better with this site than the pure godly Hercules/Herakles.