Centaur

Origins Of Centaurs

The most common theory behind centaurs, and how they first emerged as a type of creature, is pure and simple shock. The idea is that a non-riding culture, or a society of men and women who had never seen horses, or at last never seen men riding them, naturally thought that what they were seeing ...
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Centaur Mythology

How did centaurs evolve, mythologically? Like many lower creatures, not immortal, gods, though not human, in the Greek mythology structure, it’s almost as if the historians are saying, “they could be anybody’s kids.” One theory, is that they are the children of Ixion and Nephele. Ixion, was the king of the Lapith tribe, or just ...
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Centauroid Creatures

Centaroid is not a euphemism for alien cntaurs from outer space; actually it could refer to normal centaurs too. Centauroid describes any bast and male combination, with four legs, -that of an animal, and the upper torse of a man or woman, resulting in six appendages, and two ribcages. One also wonders if this means ...
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Centaurs In Fiction

Though centaurs in their original Greco-Roman mythology were not lovable, kind-hearted frolicking types, modern fiction paints a much more easily digested image of the creatures consistently. Generally, in Greek and Roman tradition, centaurs were everything wild, barbaric, filthy, and so on. They took what they wanted, usually nymphs, or mortal women, food, and they were ...
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Female Centaurs, Kentaurides

Kentaurides, or Centaurides, are female centaurs, and aren’t actually a part of th major centaur mythology. They didn’t really show up in Greco-Roman mythos until much later, and were rarely present in art until around 400 BC. They do eventually appear in literature, however. One particulalry romantic story is of Hylonome and Cyllarus. Hylonome was ...
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