The Winds of Wonder

Cerberus: The Three-Headed Dog of Greek Mythology 

Cerberus, the hound of Hades, was the three-headed guard dog of the Underworld. He was Hades’s beloved pet, entrusted with guarding the gates of the realm of the dead. Under Cerberus’s vigilant watch, he prevented the souls of the deceased from escaping back to the land of the living. Although no souls succeeded in passing Cerberus, the hero Heracles captured him as part of his final labor, and the legendary bard Orpheus also managed to subdue him.

The featured image is Blake’s Hound of Hades.

Courtesy: https://www.thecollector.com/cerberus-origins-key-myths/

Savitri Book II Canto 8

In menacing tracts, in tortured solitudes

Companionless he roamed through desolate ways

Where the red Wolf waits by the fordless stream

And Death’s black eagles scream to the precipice,

And met the hounds of bale who hunt men’s hearts

Baying across the veldts of Destiny,

In footless battlefields of the Abyss

Fought shadowy combats in mute eyeless depths,

Assaults of Hell endured and Titan strokes

And bore the fierce inner wounds that are slow to heal. ||64.26||

In men|+ac+ing tracts,} in tor|+tured sol|+i+tudes|

Com+pan|+ion+less| he roamed| through des|+o+late ways|

Where the| red Wolf| waits by| the ford|+less stream|

And Death’s| black ea|+gles scream| to the prec|+i+pice,|

And met| the hounds| of bale| who hunt| men’s hearts|

Bay+ing| a+cross| the veldts| of Des|+ti+ny,|

In foot|+less bat|+tle+fields| of the| A+byss|

Fought shad|+ow+y com|+bats in| mute eye|+less depths,|

As+saults| of Hell| en+dured| and Ti|+tan strokes|

And bore| the fierce| in+ner wounds| that are slow| to heal.|64.26

Savitri Book 2 Canto 7 – The Descent into Night

He mastered the tides of Nature with a look:

He met with his bare spirit naked Hell. ||60.20||

Painting by Huta with the sketch by the Mother