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Podcast: The Dollar Vigilante
Episode: Welcome to the Gates of Hell, Guarded By A Three-headed Sociopathic Mass Murdering Megalomaniac
Description:
Imagine, if you will, a monster so evil, so malevolent, that the Greek scribes pictured it as “almost indescribable”.
Meet Cerberus – also known as the “hound of Hades” – the multi-headed dog who guarded the gates of hell, preventing the dead from leaving.
Cerberus was a “many-headed, relentless and strong creature who fed on raw flesh”… who in art is almost exclusively shown with three dog heads, the rest of them being the heads of snakes spurting from his back, with a venomous one also serving as his tail.
Moreover, he/she/they/them/it (ring a bell?) ha...