In the game Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, the character Shanoa uses magical glyphs to summon Cerberus' heads as weapons and defense.Cerberus appears as a boss in several games from the Castlevania series.It sometimes is described with a mane of fire.It sometimes is described with fifty heads or a thousand heads.It also represents birth, life, and death. Each of Cerberus's heads represent something the first, birth, the second, youth, the last, old age.The poison that drips onto the ground sprung up as a plant that is known as a wolfsbane. In some accounts it was said that Cerberus had a poisonous bite. It is also very large, and ferocious, with sharp teeth that can slice flesh.
His looks could frighten many mortals and demigods. Herakles then returned Cerberus to Hades, and went back to the surface world.Ĭerberus' most potent ability is its looks: It has a mane of snakes, three heads, and a tail which was a living serpent. However, while outside of his palace, Cerberus awoke, which scared Eurystheus so much he jumped into a pithos. Herakles dragged the unconscious dog to King Eurystheus. Cerberus charged at Heracles, but Heracles had such incredible strength, he lifted Cerberus and tossed him over his back, causing him to faint. Heracles asked Hades if he could bring Cerberus to the surface, and Hades agreed. Heracles went into Hades with the help of Hestia, and went to the castle to which Hades resided. 550–500 BC) attributed to the Leagros Group (Louvre CA 2992).Ĭapturing Cerberus without using any weapons or receiving any help was Herakles's final, twelfth labor he needed to complete. Hades saw this, and fled to Egypt with the Olympians, save for Zeus.Īthena, Hermes and Heracles, leading a three-headed Cerberus out of the underworld, as Persephone looks on. Cerberus was afraid of his father, and did not want to fight him. When Typhon threatened the gods, Hades went into battle with Cerberus.
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While in the underworld, Heracles met the heroes Theseus and Pirithous, where the two companions were being held prisoner by Hades for attempting to carry off Persephone, and, along with bringing back Cerberus, Heracles also managed (usually) to rescue Theseus, and in some versions Pirithous as well. According to Apollodorus, Heracles found Theseus and Pirithous near the gates of Hades, bound to the "Chair of Forgetfulness, to which they grew and were held fast by coils of serpents", and when they saw Heracles, "they stretched out their hands as if they should be raised from the dead by his might", and Heracles was able to free Theseus, but when he tried to raise up Pirithous, "the earth quaked and he let go." However, the Greeks did note in their myths that Cerberus was a fan of sweet things like honey cakes and music, and this became his undoing the great musician Orpheus charmed it with his lyre, and both the beautiful maiden Psyche and the Trojan prince Aeneas were able to pacify Cerberus with a honey cake and thus continue their journey through the underworld. Only a few heroes ever escaped Cerberus's guard. Cerberus' job was to make sure the dead stay within the gates and the living stay away from them.
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