Three-headed Deities
Further information: Polycephaly- In Hindu mythology, Trisiras and Dattatreya are explicitly tricephalous deities, but other instances of three-headedness are also found in Hindu iconography, for example in depictions of goddess Durga.
- The smaller Gallehus horn has a three-headed figure, holding an axe in its right hand and a rope tethered to the leg of a horned animal in the left.
- The hound Cerberus in Greek mythology is often depicted with three heads.
- Geryon has been depicted as three-headed on the Herculean Sarcophagus of Genzano currently held at the British Museum.
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