Guard dog of the Underworld
Cerberus guarding the Gates to the Underworld Well all know what the underworld holds and who is the king of teh Underworld, that being Hades, who rules alongside his beloved Persephone during 6 months of teh Year of which we call Autumn and Winter. There is no denying how powerful Hades really is, but to be able to get to him, you have to surpass his ever loyal and fierce Guard Dog CERBERUS. What is Cerberus and where did he come from? Cerberus guards the gates of the Underworld , to prevent those who have crossed the river Styx from ever escaping. " Cerberus was the offspring of Echidna , a hybrid half-woman and half-serpent, and Typhon , a fire-breathing giant whom even the Greek gods feared. Its brother is Orthrus , always depicted as a two-headed hellhound . The common depiction of Cerberus in Greek mythology and art is as having three heads. In most works the three-heads each respectively see and represent the p...