Half human, half beast characters have been present in popular mythology for thousands of years, and likely will be for thousands more.
Centaurs may best be explained as the creation of a folktale in which wild inhabitants of the mountains and savage spirits of the forests were combined in half-human, half-animal form. In early art they were portrayed as human beings in front, with the body and hindlegs of a horse attache...
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104, &c.) Now, in these earliest accounts, the centaurs appear merely as a sort of gigantic, savage, or animal-like beings; whereas, in later writers, they are described as monsters (hippocentaurs), whose bodies were partly human and partly those of horses. This strange mixture of the ...
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b—human tooth. d—beads. 2—gold plaques, recorded during the clearing of the burial. 3—general view of the burial. Drawing and photograph by Iryna B. Shramko, Stanislav A. Zadnikov. Probably, triangular plaques with impressed concentric circles or in the form of three triple circles ...