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Cerberus had several multi-headed relatives. 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]
The Mummy Returns features an army of jackal-headed warriors called the Army of Anubis. Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker trilogy includes a cynocephalic half-man named Tool. Saturday Night Live has a sketch about a man who attaches his dog's head to a deceased relative's body. The Dog Man series by Dav Pilkey features a dog-headed policeman as ...
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
Ox-Head – An ox-headed guardian or type of guardian of the Underworld in Chinese mythology. Penghou – A Chinese tree spirit with the face of a human and the body of a dog. Pratyangira – A Hindu Goddess having the head of a lion. Sekmet – The lioness-headed Egyptian Goddess. Set – The dog-headed Egyptian God.
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
10. Catahoula Leopard Dog. This breed is thought to be one of the first dogs bred in the U.S. and confirmed to be the first Louisiana-bred dog. Named after the Choctaw word for “sacred lake ...
Heracles is on the left, wearing his lion-skin, fighting a three-bodied Geryon to the right. An Attic black-figure neck amphora, by the Swing Painter c. 550–500 BC (Cab. Med. 223), shows a two-headed Orthrus, at the feet of a three-bodied Geryon, with two arrows protruding through one of his heads, and a dog tail. [13]
Dogs were closely associated with Hecate in the Classical world. Dogs were sacred to Artemis and Ares. Cerberus is a three-headed, dragon-tailed watchdog who guards the gates of Hades. [2] Laelaps was a dog in Greek mythology.