leading from
The Occator crater lights on the Ceres planetoid
a)) description: Heracles drags Cerberus, the hound of Hades, from the underworld on a lead as one of his twelve labours. (ca. 525 - 520 B.C) by Paseas (aka the Painter of the Cerberus Plate)
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b) References Occator crater on the Cees -lane tour that wasn’t photographed until 2015, by the Dawn space probe?
Don’t ask me how , but it seems to have got into the human consciousness a little over the centuries one way or another. I don’t expect Martians in rocket ships to have stopped by and constantly flashed maps of the place to passing artists and craftsmen. We might have a suitable answer one day from PIA20350, image released on 22nd March 2016
Occator Crater from PIA20350, image released on 2016-03-22
c). The Cerealia Facula becomes the three heads of Cerberus and the bearded man's kilt/ skirt
d) The main stretch of Vinalia Faculae becomes Hercule's upper torso. The bearded man's raised lower arm and hand becomes the area associated with what NASA refer to as the "Stars" which is the near vertical chain of lit forms on the left Vinalia Faculae
e). Area that becomes the bearded man's neck , face and hat
f) Upper left area of Cerealia facula becomes the three heads of Cerberus while the row of finger like forms become the strip of hair sloping down to the right going across the neck at the base of the skull
g) The row of dark areas around the tholus here become the lead that Cerberus is being dragged by
h) Triangular area with a face like form looking upwards for Pareidoliacs to get excited about becomes the bearded mans bent arm on the right
“Occator Crater: Echoes in plate featuring Heracles dragging Cerberus, the hound of Hades, from the underworld on a lead as one of his twelve labours. (ca. 525 - 520 B.C) by Paseas (aka the Painter of the Cerberus Plate)?” was posted 28th February 2025
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