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As the hound of hades cerberus was one of many of his type. Cerberus also known as the hound of hades was the multi headed dog who guarded the gates of the underworld preventing the dead from leaving and making sure that those who entered never left.
The association between dogs and the underworld is common in world religions and creates an archetype that is familiar across several cultures.
Cerberus hades. Cerberus cerberus is a mythological three headed dog guard of the underworld. In a fragment from a lost play pirithous attributed to either euripides or critias heracles says that. There are many reasons canines were associated with the lands of the dead.
Often these dogs are presented as guards or gatekeepers. Cerberus is a massive three headed dog charged with guarding the gates of the underworld to prevent the dead from escaping. Cerberus only mythology concerns his capture by heracles.
As early as homer we learn that heracles was sent by eurystheus the king of tiryns to bring back cerberus from hades the king of the underworld. A child of typhon and echidna he was part of a monstrous family which included orthus the lernaean hydra and the chimaera as well. When zagreus left the house for the first time cerberus threw a tantrum that wrecked the house s lounge area.
According to apollodorus this was the twelfth and final labour imposed on heracles. He s the pet of both hades and zagreus having some affinity for the latter. He is a household pet companion for hades and zagreus and a very very very very very good boy.
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