Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx the Peloponnesus, in an inlet still visible on the Cape Matapan. In front of the gates is Cerberus, a three-headed dog, who guards the entrance of the gate and frightens all the potential souls who enter into Hades. The soul in the boat ultimately chooses his destiny by looking toward Hell and ignoring the angel on the river-bank in Paradise that beckons him to the more difficult path to Heaven. Patinier utilised a "Weltlandschaft" ("world landscape") composition with a three-colour scheme typical of his work, moving from brown in the foreground, to bluish-green, to pale blue in the background). This
Gate deities of the underworld whips, four falcon heads and four human heads. This is an enigmatic and barely understandable point. 8th gate: this access is inhabited by a flaming snake who burns up the enemies of Osiris. 9th gate: here stand Horus and Set on a hawk-headed lion. 10th gate: Apep appears again, but chained in order not to harm Ra in his transit. 11th gate: this gate is called "Mysterious Of Approaches" and is overseen by the cat-headed god Meeyuty ("meow" onomatopoeia). 12th gate: here stand the goddesses Isis and Nephthys in the form of snakes: the journey through the gates of the