High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A bident is an instrument or weapon with two prongs. The bident is the traditional weapon of Hades, Greek God of the dead. Considered not evil, death was claimed to be caused by this. The bident is not to be confused with the trident, the similar three-pronged weapon, said to be traditional of Poseidon, god of the sea and earthquakes. In Greek mythology, the trident is thought to be a sea-green, while the bident is supposedly black. The bident was never used by anyone other than Hades