What is the dog that gaurded the enterence of hell?

Answer 1

KERBEROS (or Cerberus) was the gigantic hound which guarded the gates of Hades or Hell. He was posted to prevent ghosts of the dead from leaving the underworld. Kerberos was described as a three-headed dog with a serpent's tail, a mane of snakes, and a lion's claws.

Answer 2

Cerberus.

Cerberus is a three-headed dog that guarded the entrance of the underworld.

Cerberus' mythology is Greek and Roman mythology.

Here's Cerberus's Greek name: Κέρβερος (Kerberos).

Here's more about Cerberus's mythology: Cerberus was the offspring of Echidna, a hybrid half-woman and half-serpent, and Typhon, a gigantic monster. It's siblings are the Lernaen Hydra, a serpent woman; Orthus a 2-headed hellhound; and the Chimaera, a 3-headed monster. The common depiction of Cerberus in Greek mythology and art is having three heads. In most works,the three heads of Cerberus each respectively represent the past, the present, and the future, while other sources suggest the heads represent birth, youth, and old age of Cerberus. Although, it's said that each of Cerberus' heads to have an appetite of only meat and thus allow only the spirits of the dead to freely enter the underworld, but allow none to leave. Cerberus was always employed by Hades loyal watchdog, and guarded the gates that granted access and exit to the underworld. Also, capturing Cerberus without weapons was the final labor assigned to Heracles (Hercules) by King Eurystheus, in recompense for the killing of his own children by Megara after he was driven insane by Hera, and therefore was the most dangerous and difficult. Also,Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's lliad. Now, the name "Cerberus" is a Latinized version of the Greek "Kerberos", which may be related to the Sanskrit word "सर्वरा " (Savara), used as an epithet of one of the dogs of Yama, from a Proto-Indo-European word kerberos, meaning "spotted."

Answer 3

In Greek and Roman mythology, Cerberus guards the gates to the Underworld.

Answer 4

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