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siochi Aug 29th 2011, 12:01pmIn Greek mythology, A Centaur is a member of a composite race of creatures, part human and part horse. In early Attic and Boeotian vase- paintings, as on the kantharos (illustrated below left), they are depicted with the hindquarters of a horse attached to them; in later renderings centaurs are given the torso of a human joined at the waist to the horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be. This half-human and half-animal
composition has led many writers to treat them as liminal beings, caught between the two natures, embodied in contrasted myths, both as the embodiment of untamed nature, as in their battle with the Lapiths, or conversely as teachers, like Chiron. The centaurs were usually said to have been born of Ixion and Nephele (the cloud made in the image of Hera). Another version, however, makes them children of
a certain Centaurus, who mated with the Magnesian mares.
Famous Centours
*Asbolus * sooty *
*of-prophecy.php">Chariclo *the gift of prophecy*
*Chiron *The hand*
*Eurytion * widely-honoured *
*Pholus *friend of Heracles*
*Nessus *famous Centaur killed by herakles*
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kyfer Aug 29th 2011, 12:03pmgaling aman naicp mu un
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dab0dab Aug 29th 2011, 02:45pmw0w brad 0king 0k nga
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soichiro_arima Aug 29th 2011, 03:00pmipaglaban si chron..
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ninetailedfox Aug 29th 2011, 03:03pmmdalas ko mrinig
ang mga centaurs!
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quiterzz16 Feb 25th 2012, 11:29amdiba c centur sa dota un??
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