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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2025 8:55 am
Also even before the ninth volume, what was mentioned — it is that I was comprehending different worlds in the previous volumes: in the fourth volume, in the fifth volume, in the eighth volume. And once again I simply want to remind myself, including the readers. I compared my journey, my adventure with the twelve labors of Hercules, and that in fact in all other mythological tales everything is the same, similar, just as, consequently, with Buddha before this enlightenment took place, just as, consequently, with Jesus there were all these temptations, and how he too descended into the underworld and from there resurrected the dead, as if leading people out of the underworld, guiding them behind him like with a lamp, the Hermit from the Tarot cards. And I decided once again to recall in general who Cerberus is, because it seemed to me that precisely Cerberus — perhaps it is the same Mara, from under whose influence I emerged, it turns out, overcame, upon which, in principle, Volume Eight of “Alternative History” ends, and Volume Nine — this is already as if what comes after that.
And so once again I want to refresh my memory and look, to read aloud from Wikipedia, what I will now pay attention to if one reads an article about who or what Cerberus is. “Cerberus is a three-headed dog guarding the exit from the realm of the dead, Hades, the offspring of Typhon and Echidna. He does not allow the dead to return to the world of the living, nor the living to visit the world of the dead. In one of the myths, the dog was charmed by the singing of Orpheus, who descended into Hades for his wife Eurydice. The abduction of Cerberus became the last labor of Hercules. The hero descended into the realm of the dead, received permission from the gods of the underworld to bring out the three-headed dog on the condition that he would be able to overcome him with his bare hands. Hercules was able to subdue Cerberus, after which he brought him to Eurystheus and, showing the monster to the king of Mycenae, returned him back to the realm of the dead.” You see, it turns out that in the underworld there is something that guards the entrance and the exit there. It turns out that since I now, before leaving the underworld, or more precisely from the realm of the dead in general, encountered this Mara, who precisely does not let anyone out, and I overcame her, then I have such a comparison, I draw such an analogy, that Cerberus is, in principle, also Mara.
And so once again I want to refresh my memory and look, to read aloud from Wikipedia, what I will now pay attention to if one reads an article about who or what Cerberus is. “Cerberus is a three-headed dog guarding the exit from the realm of the dead, Hades, the offspring of Typhon and Echidna. He does not allow the dead to return to the world of the living, nor the living to visit the world of the dead. In one of the myths, the dog was charmed by the singing of Orpheus, who descended into Hades for his wife Eurydice. The abduction of Cerberus became the last labor of Hercules. The hero descended into the realm of the dead, received permission from the gods of the underworld to bring out the three-headed dog on the condition that he would be able to overcome him with his bare hands. Hercules was able to subdue Cerberus, after which he brought him to Eurystheus and, showing the monster to the king of Mycenae, returned him back to the realm of the dead.” You see, it turns out that in the underworld there is something that guards the entrance and the exit there. It turns out that since I now, before leaving the underworld, or more precisely from the realm of the dead in general, encountered this Mara, who precisely does not let anyone out, and I overcame her, then I have such a comparison, I draw such an analogy, that Cerberus is, in principle, also Mara.