Half human, half beast characters have been present in popular mythology for thousands of years, and likely will be for thousands more.
horse's body it cut of everything down to the navel and joined the rest to the human figure, as though the horse desired the head, the neck-sinews and that part of a man's back which broadens as it descends, while the man sought the firm support of a horse from the navel to the...
【题目】Mermaids-underwater creatures(生物)that are half fish and half human-existonly in people's imaginations. However, they have a long history and are known all over theworld. T he e_ 1 mermaids are part of Greek mythology(神话)from over 3,000 years ago. Some of these mermaids were...
which originated in aerosols and refrigerators at the time, were destroying the ozone layer. It also showed that pesticide residues exist in the tissues of virtually all living creatures, from penguins in Antarctica to human breast
In a related manner, the different races have quite different sets of myths pertaining to the creation of their habitat and world. For sea-dwelling creatures, these are often more limited than those of land- and air-dwellers, not the least because of the fact that most of them have virtual...
The Fighting Fowl series comprises 26 black and white images photographed in either 1981 or 1988. The photographs make an astonishing visual statement of the ferocity of animals. In these bodies of work, taken over ten years, Hiro marvels at the survival instincts of these crea...
Anjali Sachdeva notes, “As González’s characters navigate a world where plants inspire revolution and animals are possessed by homicidal rage, they ask us to consider whether human beings are perhaps the least natural creatures this planet has to offer.” (Zoë) The Upstairs House by Julia...
The novel is a 1,280-page mythology in which, in its publisher’s words, “a different kind of human time is happening, a soiled simultaneity that does not differentiate between the petrol-colored puddles and the fractured dreams of those who navigate them.” Also: it features “an infant...
Centaur, inGreek mythology, a race of creatures, parthorseand partman, dwelling in the mountains of Thessaly and Arcadia. Traditionally they were the offspring ofIxion, king of the neighbouringLapiths, and were best known for their fight (centauromachy) with the Lapiths, which resulted from th...