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His father was the multi snake-footed Typhon, [11] and Cerberus was the brother of three other multi-headed monsters, the multi-snake-headed Lernaean Hydra; Orthrus, the two-headed dog that guarded the Cattle of Geryon; and the Chimera, who had three heads: that of a lion, a goat, and a snake. [12]
In addition, the Greek titan is a three-headed hellhound resembling Cerberus, the hellhound that guards the Greek underworld. [29] Hellhounds appear in the MMORPG Anarchy Online as strong white dogs that are hard to defeat. "Heck Hound," a child-friendly name change of the hellhound, is the name of a Fire spell in the MMORPG Wizard101. In the ...
Multi-headed Dogs Cerberus : the three-headed giant hound that guarded the gates of the Underworld. Orthrus: a two-headed dog, brother of Cerberus, slain by Heracles. Nymph; Odontotyrannos: a beast with a black, horse-like head, with three horns protruding from its forehead, and exceeded the size of an elephant.
According to Hesiod, Cerberus, like Orthrus was the offspring of Echidna and Typhon. And like Orthrus, Cerberus was multi-headed. The earliest accounts gave Cerberus fifty, [20] or even one hundred heads, [21] though in literature three heads for Cerberus became the standard. [22] However, in art, often only two heads for Cerberus are shown. [23]
The etymology of the name Garmr remains uncertain.Bruce Lincoln brings together Garmr and the Greek mythological dog Cerberus, relating both names to a Proto-Indo-European root *ger-"to growl" (perhaps with the suffixes -*m/*b and -*r). [1]
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He is the hound of Hades, a multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving. He was the offspring of the monsters Echidna and Typhon , and was usually described as having three heads, a serpent for a tail, and snakes protruding from his body.
Three-headed monster may refer to: Azi dahaka, a three-headed dragon in Persian mythology; Cerberus, a multi-headed (usually three-headed) dog in Greek and Roman mythology; Zmiy Gorynych, a multi-headed (usually three-headed) Slavic dragon; King Ghidorah, a three-headed dragon in the Godzilla franchise