Cerberus

Heracles, wearin his characteristic lion-skin, club in richt haund, leash in left, presentin a three-heidit Cerberus, snakes coilin frae his snoots, necks an front paws, tae a frichtened Eurystheus hidin in a giant pot. Caeretan hydria (c. 530 BC) frae Caere (Louvre E701).

In Greek meethology, Cerberus (Greek: Κέρβερος Kerberos [ˈkerberos]), eften cried the "hoond o Hades", is a monstrous multi-heidit dug, wha guards the gates o the unnerwarld, preventin the dead frae leavin.