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Cerberus


~ CERBERUS  or KERBERUS
^u          id+ | ULTIMATE WATCH DOG |
  ply> | THE MANY HEADS OF CERBERUS
         GAVE AN ULTIMATUM TO THOSE
         TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM HADES or HELL |
  biol> in genetics
        CERBERUS MESSENGER ARE RNA or mRNA MOLECULES
  THAT CAN INDUCE THE FORMATION OF
  ECTOPIC or OUT OF PLACE REPLICAS
  note CERBERUS EXPRESSING CELLS ARE CARDINAL IN
       EMBRYONAL DEVELOPMENT OF MANY ORGANS
  note CERBERA to denote SERPENT SHAPE
  note A BLISTER BEETLE CONSIDERED TO BE INFERNAL or
       LYTTA STYGICA
  sug> STYGIAN sug> STYX  sug> HADES  sug> HELL
  med>  THE CAUSES OF DUPLICATION AND MALFORMATION OF
        HUMAN ORGANS REFLECTS PATHS
  FOUND IN OTHER SPECIES
  myth> MONSTER IN THE SHAPE OF A DOG
        GUARDING THE GATES OF HADES WHICH INCLUDED
  HADES or HELL and the ELYSIAN FIELDS or ELYSIUM
  sug> STYX  sug> STYGIAN
  CERBERUS WELCOMED THOSE WHO ENTERED BUT
  SHOWED HIS TEETH TO THOSE WHO TRIED TO LEAVE
  AN OFFSPRING OF TYPHAON & ECHIDNA THE SERPENT WOMAN
  CERBERUS HAD THREE OR FIFTY OR
  EVEN HUNDRED DOG LIKE HEADS AND A BODY LIKE A SERPENT
  THE EGYPTIAN VERSION OF A WATCH ANIMAL OF HELL
  WAS MORE FORBIDDING
  IT WAS A SPHINX WITH A TRUNK AND LEGS
  OF A HIPPOPOTAMUS AND A HEAD OF A CROCODILE
  CERBERUS WAS THE SYMBOL OF
  THE ETERNAL DARKNESS OF HADES
  THE 12th TASK OF HERAKLES or HERACLES HERCULES
  WAS TO BRING CERBERUS TO THE UPPER WORLD
  RULED BY ZEUS
  THE GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD PLUTO
  AGREED THAT HERCULES MIGHT TAKE CERBERUS
  PROVIDED HERCULES DID NOT USE FORCE
  HIS SIBLING WAS see> ORTHUS
  ALSO A MULTIHEADED DOG LIKE MONSTER
  art> MANY AMPHORAS SHOW HERCULES
       STEALING CERBERUS FROM HADES
  hx>  THE HABIT TO APPEASE CERBERUS
       WITH CAKE SOAKED IN HONEY
  PERSISTS TO THIS DAY IN MANY CULTURES    see> HADES
  A CAKE IS PLACED IN THE MOUTH OF A DECEASED
  ALONG WITH A COIN FOR THE FERRYMAN CHARON
  lit " GIVE A SOP TO CERBERUS " refers to
        " APPEASE SOMEONE WITH A GIFT "
  id+ | HELP THE CROSSING OF THE RIVER STYX
        AND THE ENTRY TO HADES | from
  eng STYGIAN = HELL or HADES  as in
  ukr HADES     THE UNDERWORLD
      HAD       VIPER  EVIL  REPTILE
      HADKO     REPULSIVE
      HADY      REFLECTION
      HADKA     THOUGHT  IDEA  OPINION  SUPPOSITION  PUZZLE
      HADAI     THINK
  note STIGIAN WATER is used to imply
       FATAL WATER REFLECTIONS as in
  NARCISSISM NARCISSUS etc
  note IN MANY CULTURES IT IS BAD LUCK
       TO GAZE AT A SELF REFLECTION IN A BODY OF WATER
  ply> | CROSSING THE STYX IS
         TO ENTER THE OBLIVION OF HADES |  

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