The Fifth Head of Cerberus and Mr. Million, adding that its "unseen" heads are his brother David as fourth and, by implication, the fifth and final the narrator's own. Following this logic, the title of the novella therefore refers to the narrator himself, whose story we read. Further parallels between the narrator's family and the mythology of Cerberus can be drawn in numerous other ways throughout this novella. For example, a statue of this mythological creature exists at the front, or "gates" of their family home, which is itself located at 666 Saltimbanque, this number having associations with the underworld dating back to the Greek
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