1/9/2024 0 Comments Hades dog name![]() Nam Cerberus terra est, id est consumptrix omnium corporum. This is where Cerberus is also said to be from, just as kreoberos, that is “devouring flesh”: from here we also get “reclining over bones”, for the earth does not consume bones quickly” “For Cerberus is the earth, that means the consumer of all corpses. Servius, Commentary to Vergil’s Aeneid 6.395 Others say that Kimmê is as place in Hades. ![]() And some call their city Kerberia, but others call it Kimmeria. They also call the Kimmerians Kerberians. For the dog in Hades had three heads, as the story goes about the dog Kerberos. Kerberos: From “ karbaros” which is from having a heavy head. There are etymological and allegorical interpretations to entertain us. Trying to make sense of the dog’s name has good precedent in antiquity.
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