In the world of football, this word, goalkeeper, has been chosen to designate that player who keeps the most precious thing on the field: the goal.
There are many unique creatures mentioned in Greek mythology . One of the best known is precisely Cerberus. The Greeks had a deep respect and fear of wild dogs.
According to Greek mythology, Typhon was the father of Cerberus. It was a great fire-breathing dragon (and god). It had large bright red eyes, a hundred wings, and hundreds of heads. The gods who lived on Mount Olympus were extremely afraid of this character.
Typhoon’s life mission was to destroy the world and put obstacles in the way of Zeus who was trying to advance towards the Kingdom of Heaven. Typhoon was known for his ability to cause fear and spread disaster.
Cerberus’s mother was Echidna. She was a half-serpent, half-human-woman creature. She had the head and torso of a beautiful woman and was known for her deep black eyes. The lower part of its body was that of a snake. He lived in a cave and lured men there before he consumed them.
The word ‘keeper’ comes from Greek mythology . At the gates of Hades, hell, lived a monstrous beast. It was called Kerberos in Greece and Cerberus in Rome and it had three heads and a tail made of a serpent. The back was covered with countless heads of serpents. This hideous creature was the daughter of Typhon and Echidna, as we have seen, and its bite was said to be terrible. Cerberus stroked those who entered hell with his head, but then he would not let them out and, always on the prowl, devoured those who tried to flank the gates of Hades. It also drove away the living who wanted to enter the world of darkness. He is relentless, although some have managed to avoid his bites, such as Orpheus, who put him to sleep with his lyre when he went to rescue his wife Eurydice.
Cerberus is most often depicted moving along the banks of the River Styx. This river was the limit established between the dead of the underworld and the life of the earth. Cerberus was responsible for protecting the gates of the underworld.
The truth is that this three-headed dog was very kind and friendly with the dead, as well as with all the new spirits that entered the underworld. Mind you, it would eat any of them who tried to leave and return to the land of the living.
Therefore, the guard dog is the Can Cerbero , which has served to name the football goalkeeper. In South America they are also called archers because the goal is called a bow.
