Cerberus Biography

Cerberus – (correct Kerber, Cerberus, KerberoV) – in Greek mythology, the underground the dog guarding the entrance to the kingdom of Hades. Homer, a dog is already known, but the name TS. he first mentioned by Hesiod. With the passage of the shadows in the underworld TS. gently wags his tail, but those who are trying to get out, he devours. Later arose the idea that he was scared and all included in a future abode, and even the name of the ancient Kerber made from words khxeV; (souls) and bibvscw (devour) or seen in the name synonymous with danger (Gezihy). According to popular conception (unlikely, however, very old), to propitiate the monster were part of the underground kingdom offered him honey cakes. On vase drawings and other works of art TS. depicted as an evil shepherd, in a more ancient time TS. usually depicted two-headed snake and a tail (like a dog Gerionova Orfra, which was originally identical with the u), and sometimes – with one head; but with snakes on your back, neck and abdomen and later established an idea of TS. as three-headed pse, and (in the Roman era), the average of his head sometimes depicted a lion. In Geziodovoy feogonii TS. is the son Tifaona and Ehidny. Heracles, on the orders of King Eurystheus, was to deliver TS. of the Underworld on the ground that he and udayus perform, while at the locations where the foam fell from the jaws of a monster, a poisonous monkshood grows.