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the three-headed proof that one guard dog was never quite enough.
means In Greek and Roman myth, the monstrous multi-headed dog who guards the gates of the underworld, keeping the dead in and the living out.
from From Greek Kerberos, the hound of Hades, latinized as Cerberus. The name's deeper roots are murky — one much-repeated suggestion links it to a Sanskrit word for 'spotted,' as if Cerberus meant something like 'the spotted one,' but that connection is speculative and far from settled. What's certain is that the Greeks gave him three heads (sometimes more, in the telling), a serpent's tail, and an appetite for keeping souls firmly on the wrong side of the door.
- job title
- keeps the dead in, not strangers out
- only weakness
- a lyre and a decent lullaby
- family tree
- sibling to the Hydra and Chimera
- final indignity
- dragged to the surface by Hercules
- snake bonus
- often drawn with a serpent for a tail
cerberus greek mythology — three-headed dog guarding the gates of hades in ancient greek underworld mythology
cerberus satellite — nasa's gamma-ray burst monitor launched on swift observatory in 2017