Naming of moons underworld, and Nix (a respelling of Nyx), mother of Charon, is the goddess of darkness and the night. Kerberos is a giant three-headed dog who guards the entrance to the underworld. The fifth moon is named for the river Styx that forms the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead. The name of Eris's moon Dysnomia was suggested by its discoverer Michael E. Brown, who also suggested the name of the dwarf planet. The name has two meanings: in mythology Dysnomia (lawlessness) is the daughter of Eris (chaos). However, the name is also an intentional reference to
Gate deities of the underworld afterlife is finished and the sun rises on the world in the form of a sacred scarab (Khepri, deification of the morning sun). The British egyptologist George Hart thus outlined, in his "Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses" (1986), the evocative names of these deities and their positions in the netherworld as described in the funeral papyri known to scholars: Gate deities of the underworld The Gate deities of the underworld were ancient Egyptian minor deities charged with guarding the gates of the Egyptian underworld. The Egyptians believed that in the netherworld, the Duat, there were various gates, doors and