id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 19119 Bloomfield, Maurice Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea .txt text/plain 7383 488 79 comes the familiar description: Kerberos now has three dog heads, a two dogs of Yama, the dark and the spotted, that guard the road (to road-guarding, man-beholding watch-dogs entrust him, O King Yama, and Therefore (the two dogs of Yama) Çy[=a]ma and Çabala (the dark dogs of Yama are sandwiched in between sun and moon on the one side, the _Atharva-Veda_ says: "The four-eyed dog (the moon) surveys by night both moon and sun by their ancient names and in their capacity as dogs (the sun-dog): "From Çy[=a]ma (the moon) do I resort to Çabala (the two dogs of Yama are, but yet, too, sun and moon. Çy[=a]va), "the black," is the moon dog, and that Çabala, "the spotted, his heaven become Pluto and hell, then, and only then, Yama's dogs are to another in the myth of Cerberus; that is, the notions of sun and moon ./cache/19119.txt ./txt/19119.txt