2000 Year Old Tomb of Cerberus Was Discovered (Mythology and the Collective Unconscious)

An ancient 'Tomb of Cerberus' was discovered in Italy. Its an interesting find because it is well preserved and the art is for the most part insightful into beliefs. What we learn about these things is that people back then, and today, created a conception of life and death based on mythology. One might make the argument that all mythology is unconscious collective projections. Jung and Mythology.

Archeology teaches us that myths have a purpose in helping us understand the world around us. Cultures are based in deep myths and those myths come not only from our understanding of the world but also from the world in which they experienced it. It is one of those things that we rarely think about on a conscious level but is deeply embedded into our symbolism.

For example, the same phenomenon might be seen or understood differently depending on one's culture and the underlining mythologies that help create that culture. Culture as seen as a programing of the brain and impacts how we understand events. Most of us are fish in a fishbowl who often fail to recognize the perspective of others but also how other cultures might have a different but valid perception. It is difficult to step outside of one's fishbowl of cultural/symbolic anchorage.

As with most things in the world, understanding different cultures and where they are similar often helps us to further understand the central shared universal beliefs of people that are cross-cultural in every society. At our root we are the very same and want very similar things out of life. We have not found in the Cerberus tomb an artifact of the way in which they constructed their world and in turn its influence culturally on the way in which we understand the world. 

You can read an article about the discovery in Sealed 'Tomb of Cerberus' Discovered in Giugliano Italy as well as the history of mythology in Cerberus (I have a one headed Shitsu that guards his spot on the couch probably as much as the Hell Hounds of yesteryear protected the gates of Hades! Most people can sneak past with a treat. He is not an attacker but a muller of slobber.)