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  2. Cerberus - Wikipedia

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    Apollodorus' Cerberus has three dog-heads, a serpent for a tail, and the heads of many snakes on his back. [122] According to Apollodorus, Heracles' twelfth and final labor was to bring back Cerberus from Hades. Heracles first went to Eumolpus to be initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries.

  3. Category:Cerberus - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Hellhound - Wikipedia

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    Goddess Hel and the hellhound Garmr by Johannes Gehrts, 1889. A hellhound is a mythological hound that embodies a guardian or a servant of hell, the devil, or the underworld.. Hellhounds occur in mythologies around the world, with the best-known examples being Cerberus from Greek mythology, Garmr from Norse mythology, the black dogs of English folklore, and the fairy hounds of Celtic mythol

  5. Greek underworld - Wikipedia

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    Hades with Cerberus. Cerberus (Kerberos), or the "Hell-Hound", is Hades' massive multi-headed (usually three-headed) [78] [79] [80] dog with some descriptions stating that it also has a snake-headed tail and snake heads on its back and as its mane. Born from Echidna and Typhon, Cerberus guards the gate that serves as the entrance of the ...

  6. List of Greek mythological creatures - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Hades - Wikipedia

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    Even if the doors were open, Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog of the underworld, ensured that, while all souls were allowed to enter into the underworld freely, none could ever escape. [109] Cerberus is a very integral symbol of Hades so much so that when Cerberus is depicted, the depiction very rarely portrays him without Hades.

  8. Orthrus - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Category:Mythological dogs - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of dogs from mythology, including dogs, beings who manifest themselves as dogs, beings whose anatomy includes dog parts, and so on. ... Cerberus (27 P ...