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by wickedwillie on January 23rd, 2004

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What is a 'centaur'?

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  • by pjchik on February 1st, 2004

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    A centaur is a half man/ half horse. The head and torso are human, the rest is the body of a horse. Hehehe...there are SO many jokes I could make about that.

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  • by iwnit on April 21st, 2007

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    Half man, half horse.
    But they usually do not have the head and torso of a horse, and the rest of the body of a man, even though this would be great fun too. (similar to minotaurs).
    Curiously, the word "centaurus" also includes "taurus", which means bull and not horse.

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  • by dragonfreak on March 29th, 2007

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    centaurs are half man/half horse

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  • by Yoyo Head on March 2nd, 2004

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    Yes, they had the torso and head of a human and the legs and trunk of a horse.
    Centaurs are creatures of Greek myth, as opposed to Celtic or Nordic myth. They are followers of Dionysius, the god of wine. They were famous for drunkenness and carrying off young maidens. Most famous was the centaur Chiron, who was a teacher of the heroes Achilles and Jason.

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  • by Anonymous on April 21st, 2007

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    In Greek mythology, the centaurs (Greek: Κένταυροι) are a race of creatures composed of part human and part horse. In early Attic vase-paintings, they are depicted as the torso of a human joined at the (human's) 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, and as the embodiment of untamed nature, as in their battle with the Lapiths, or conversely as teachers, like Chiron.

    The centaurs descended from Centaurus, who mated with the Magnesian mares. Centaurus was the son of either Ixion and Nephele (the cloud made in the image of Hera) or of Apollo and Stilbe, daughter of the river god Peneus. In the latter version of the story his twin brother was Lapithus, ancestor of the Lapiths, thus making the two warring peoples cousins.

    Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur

    A bronze statue of a centaur below:

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