Hound of hell. Cerberus (monstrous dog) guards the bridge to the lower world

Motif

Hound of hell. Cerberus (monstrous dog) guards the bridge to the lower world.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · Nature of the lower world. · view the constellation · filed as A673

Filed across the traditions

Greek Fox 88
Norse Herrmann Nordische Mythologie 599ff., MacCulloch Eddic 303f.
general *Encyc. Rel. Ethics I 493a
general *Fb "hund" III 678b. – Gaster Thespis 214
general Frazer Apollodorus I 232 n. 1 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. V
general Persian and Hindu: Keith 69. – Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 326, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 165.

Within the index

Filed under Nature of the lower world.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Dogs in hell Cock of hell

Filed beside it

Hell. Lower world of torment Stygian river. River in lower world. In Greek myth five such rivers in Hades, Styx (hate), Acheron (mourning), Kokytus (lamentation), Lethe (forgetfulness) and Pyrephlegethon (flame) Judges in the lower world Ship of hell Workmen and tradesmen of hell In other world one room contains the dead, another contains souls of the unborn waiting to enter the wombs of women, and a third contains all the evil spirits Sun in the underworld Hole to lower world up which people come Nature of the lower world – miscellaneous

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Dogs in otherworld. (Cf. A673.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Two-headed dog Hydra: nine-headed monster. Middle head immortal Man-eating mares Centaur: man-horse. Trunk and head of man, body of horse Hind with golden horns Transformation to animal to seduce woman Magic goblet (glass) Transportation by magic goblet. (Cf. D1171.6.2.) Immortality exchanged. Wounded Centaur immortal but cannot be cured. He gives away his immortality to Prometheus and is thus allowed to die Person with three bodies. Body of three men grown together in one at waist but parted in three from flanks and thighs Tasks imposed. A person's prowess is tested by assigning him certain tasks (usually impossible or extremely difficult) to be performed either to escape punishment or to receive a valuable reward Task: cleaning Augean stable. Stable has not been cleaned in years. Must be done in one night. River turned through it

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