Cerberus

**Cerberus**

Cerberus Summary: Cerberus is a Greek and Roman mythical creature that is a 3 headed hound (or 50 heads) with snaky extremities and a snake for a tail along with venom dripping down his fangs and a swarm of snakes growing out of his back. The Cerberus was to be an offspring of two monsters; Typhon a fire breathing serpent and Echidna portrayed as a beautiful woman and deadly snakes also mother of Sphinx. The Cerberus was the watchdog for the Greek underworld and servant to Hades, the Cerberus was in charge of devouring anyone trying to return to the land of the living and refused humans from entering. Cerberus was so dreadful that if anyone looked the Cerberus in the eyes they'd turn into stone. The Cerberus only weakness was that he could be calmed and put to sleep by different forms of music. Cerberus has several mythical stories in the roles of the watchdog for Hades. One story has to do with Thracian singer, Orpheus who was revered with ancient Greece he married a nymph Eurydice. One day she died due to a snake bite and Orpheus was so hit by the death that he never sang or played an instrument again. He decided to risk his own life to go to the underworld to bring Eurydice back from the dead. Orpheus used his music to charm the boatman that crosses the river of the underworld and he managed to get Cerberus to leave his position in guarding to go to sleep with the music Orpheus played. Orpheus reached Hades and he proposed to Orpheus he could take Eurydice back to the surface but he could not to look back at her until she out on the land. Orpheus could not resist and took a quick glance and she became a ghost going back to the underworld. The Cerberus related with Heracles 12 labors, Heracles had to killed the Cerberus with nothing but his hands. In the movie "Hercules" the Cerberus is shown in the scene where Hercules comes to the underworld to save the girl that Hades captures and kills. [|Cerberus 1] [|Cerberus Wiki]