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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]
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.
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 ...
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]
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
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]
Cerberus – Three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld; Cercopes – Mischievous forest spirit; Cericopithicus (Medieval Bestiary) – Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates; Ceryneian Hind – Hind with golden antlers and bronze or brass hooves; Cetus; Chakora – Lunar bird