What is a person called with the body of a horse? Centaur

Images of gods with the heads of animals and human bodies, or vice versa with the bodies of animals and the heads of people, are found among different nations. It is possible that these creatures are the fruit of genetic experiments by aliens.

Australian sensation
A joint Australian-American expedition that studied cave paintings of primitive people in Australia and South Africa recently discovered more than five thousand Stone Age images, among which there are sketches of half-humans, half-animals: with the body of a horse and the head of a man, or with the head of a bull and a human torso. Drawings of these unknown creatures were made no less than 32 thousand years ago.
Cambridge anthropologist Christopher Chippendale and Sydney historian Paul Tacon, who studied ancient petroglyphs, came to the firm conclusion that primitive artists painted mysterious creatures “from life,” that is, they depicted what they saw with their own eyes. It is noteworthy that prehistoric Australians and Africans, who lived on different continents, decorated their caves with drawings of the same creatures. What is especially surprising, however, is that in Australia scientists have found images of centaurs.

It is reliably known that horses have never been found on this remote continent. How the Australian aborigines managed to depict a horse with a human torso is unknown.

It remains to be assumed that in time immemorial, hybrids of humans and animals really existed on our planet. And it is by no means excluded, ufologists believe, that these mysterious creatures are the result of genetic experiments by aliens.

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The hybrids created in vitro, or at least many of them, were intelligent. For example, the god Thoth, who was depicted with the head of an ibis or a baboon, was considered by the Egyptians to be an outstanding scientist: “He knows the heavens, is able to count the stars, list everything that is on earth, and measure the Earth itself.”

The son of the god Cronus and Philyra, the centaur Chiron, trained by Apollo and Artemis in hunting, healing, music and divination, was the teacher of the heroes of Greek myths - Achilles, Asclepius, Castor, Polydeuces, Jason. Legends say that horse people came to Greece from the mountains, but due to an excessive craving for alcohol, they were expelled from Hellas by people.

Human-beast hybrids or animals endowed with intelligence could be a kind of service personnel and perform some economic functions. In Egypt, near the village of Deir el-Medine, a settlement for the builders of the Theban necropolis was opened. Among them were scribes and artists who painted the walls of the tombs. During excavations, about 5 thousand drawings were discovered depicting scenes from the life of the Egyptians. Many of them baffle scientists.

For example, on an Egyptian papyrus kept in the British Museum, jackals are depicted guarding kids. Both “shepherds” walk on their hind legs, carrying baskets behind their backs. The procession is closed by a jackal playing the flute. In front of the whole group, a cat stands on its hind legs and chases the geese with a twig. Another drawing even depicts a “chess tournament” between a lion and a gazelle: they are sitting in chairs in front of the board; the lion bared its teeth, as if saying something, making a move; The gazelle clasped its hands" and released the figure. Jean-Francois Champollion, who was the first to decipher and read Egyptian hieroglyphs, believed that such drawings were a kind of political satire. But there is no evidence of the existence of this literary genre among the ancient Egyptians.

Anubis, in the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians originally the god of death, the patron of the dead, as well as necropolises, funeral rites and embalming, was usually depicted in the guise of a man with the head of a jackal. Pliny, Paul the Deacon, Marco Polo, and Adam of Bremen wrote about people with dog or jackal heads as real beings. People with a dog's head are also on old Orthodox icons - this is how, in particular, St. Christopher was depicted.

"Mass Graves"
" In the early 1960s, during the construction of a highway in Crimea, a bulldozer turned a stone “box” onto the surface of the earth. The workers opened the lid of the sarcophagus: it contained a human skeleton with the head of a ram, and the skeleton was solid, the head was integral with the skeleton. The road foreman called archaeologists, whose expedition was working nearby. They looked at the bones and decided that the road workers were playing a joke on them, and they immediately left. After making sure that the find did not represent any historical value, the workers razed the sarcophagus to the ground.
Archaeologists sometimes find ancient burials in which the skeletons of animals and humans are mixed, and often the human head is missing from the grave, and the set of animal bones is not complete. It is believed that these are the remains of sacrificial gifts. But it is quite possible that these are actually hybrids created by aliens.

The aliens apparently conducted experiments on the hybridization of a variety of animals. Doctor of Biological Sciences P. Marikovsky, studying Stone Age rock paintings in the western spurs of the Dzungarian Alatau in the territory of Mesopotamia, discovered images of obvious mutants: mountain goats with two heads; goats with long tails like wolves; unknown animals with straight, stick-like horns; horses with humps like a camel; horses with long horns; camels with horns; centaurs. In 1850, the famous French archaeologist Auguste Marriet discovered huge vaulted crypts (so-called crypts) in the area of the Saqqara pyramid, in which hundreds of sarcophagi, carved from solid pieces of granite, were preserved. Their dimensions surprised scientists: length - 3.85 meters, width - 2.25 meters, height - 2.5 meters, wall thickness - 0.42 meters, cover thickness 0.43 meters. The total weight of the “coffin” and the lid was about 1 ton!

Inside the sarcophagi were crushed animal remains mixed with a viscous liquid similar to resin. After studying fragments of bodies, Marriet came to the conclusion that they were hybrids of a wide variety of animals. The ancient Egyptians believed in life after death and were convinced that a living creature could only be reborn if its body was embalmed and retained its appearance. They were afraid of the creatures created by the gods and, in order to prevent the monsters from being resurrected in a new life, they dismembered their bodies into small pieces, placed them in coffins, filled them with resin, and covered them with massive lids on top.

Mysterious cuckolds
During excavations in the Gobi Desert, the Belgian scientist Friedrich Meissner discovered a human skull with horns. At first, he assumed that the horns were somehow embedded in the skull, that is, they were implanted. However, studies by pathologists have shown that these are natural formations: they formed and grew during the life of this creature.

Several human skulls with horns like this one were discovered in a burial mound in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in the 1880s. With the exception of bony projections located about two inches above the eyebrows, the people to whom the skeletons belonged were anatomically normal, although they were seven feet tall. The bodies were buried around 1200 AD. The bones were sent to the American Exploration Museum in Philadelphia.

Similar skulls were found by an Israeli archaeological expedition led by Professor Chaim Rasmon during excavations of the ruins of Subeit. In the lowest cultural layers dating back to the Bronze Age, archaeologists discovered human skeletons whose skulls were crowned with horns. They were held in the skulls so firmly that experts could not come to a clear conclusion whether the horns grew naturally or were somehow “implanted.” Images and reliefs of people with horns are also found in other regions of the world, for example, in Peru.

Are the experiments ongoing?
Perhaps the aliens conducted genetic experiments to create humanoids, as well as various hybrids of humans and animals in the Middle Ages. In the chronicles of the Mongols, curious evidence of unusual children has been preserved:

“To a khan named Sarva, the youngest of five sons was born with turquoise-colored hair, his arms and legs were flat; his eyes closed “from bottom to top...”; “since Duva Sokhor had a single eye in the middle of his forehead, he could see a distance of three migrations." Medieval scientists reported about the birth of various freaks: Ambroise Pare, Hugo Apdrovandi, Lycosthenes. There is information about the birth of children with the head of a cat, a dog, and also with the body of a reptile.

Defects transmitted over centuries

What about hermaphrodites? As you know, Hermaphroditus was the son of Hermes and Aphrodite. The legend tells that while traveling, he once stopped at a lake, wanting to swim. The nymph Salmakis, seeing a naked young man, fell madly in love with him, however, not achieving reciprocity, she turned to the gods with a prayer to unite their bodies forever...

There are many bisexual creatures known in Greek mythology. Aesop explained their appearance this way: “One night, after staying with Bacchus, a drunken Prometheus began modeling human bodies in clay, but made several mistakes...”

“First of all, there were people of three sexes, and not two, as today; the third sex combined the qualities of both men and women at the same time; The name that has become abusive remains from him - androgyne, although he himself has disappeared. Terrible in their strength and power, these people harbored great plans and even encroached on the power of the gods: they tried to ascend to heaven in order to attack the inhabitants of heaven.

And then Zeus found a way to save people and put an end to their rampage. He cut them in half, and then they became weaker and more useful to God, because their number increased. When the bodies of these people were cut in half, each half rushed with lust towards its other half, they hugged, intertwined and, passionately wanting to grow together, died of hunger and generally from inaction, because they did not want to do anything separately...

One of the most famous androgynists was Charles d'Eon de Beaumont, also known as Genevieve d'Eon de Beaumont. Born in France at the beginning of the 18th century, this hermaphrodite was raised as a girl until she was three years old, but then decided she wanted to be a boy and spent most of her life disguised as a man.

De Beaumont graduated from military school and achieved considerable success in his army career (possessing, by the way, a magnificent female figure). As a secret agent, he was sent to Russia to spy on Empress Elizabeth, and at the Russian court the androgynous figure appeared as... a maid of honor.

Contemporaries recalled that the bisexual Frenchman had a tremendous influence on the political life of Europe at that time. The benefit he brought to his native country was so great that the great Beaumarchais himself exclaimed: “D"Eon is the new Joan of Arc!" By the way, Beaumarchais saw a woman in Charles and even wanted... to marry him. De Beaumont spent his last years in London, where he lived as a woman, but at the same time earned his living... by fencing lessons.

It is known that the mythical hermaphrodites were indeed happy with their bisexual appearance, but their earthly counterparts, who, by the will of fate, came into this world with abnormalities of the genital organs, can hardly be called happy. After all, the idea that a hermaphrodite is a creature with two full-fledged genital organs, which he can “act” with equally dexterity, is far from the truth.

Program failure or echo of old experiments?

This is what is around us. Transsexuals are people with a discrepancy between the anatomical sex of an individual and his gender identity (mental sex), there are millions of them, they are among us.

In recent decades, more and more evidence has been accumulating that the structure of some areas of the brain of transsexuals differs from the structure of the corresponding areas of the brain of ordinary men and women and is close (though not identical) to the structure of these areas in people of the opposite anatomical sex. There is an assumption that the phenomenon of transsexuality is connected precisely with this.

We have what we have

Nowadays, the media provides numerous information about the birth of deformed children with gills, with cat-like, vertically located pupils, cyclops with one eye in the forehead, with membranes between the fingers and toes, with green or blue skin.

In March 2000, a message appeared that in India, in one of the hospitals in the city of Pollachi (Tamil Nadu), a “mermaid” was born - a girl with a fish tail instead of legs. She lived very briefly; her body was transferred to one of the medical institutions for study.

The image of a centaur came to the modern world from ancient Greek myths. The unusual supernatural creature amazed with its savagery and violent disposition. These heroes of myths lived in dense impenetrable forests and high mountains. Because of their belligerence, centaurs symbolize the animal side of man.

Centaur - who is it?

Intemperance and unprecedented cruelty are the main differences between the centaur; being huge in size, this creature was the embodiment of power and mighty strength. A centaur is a large mythical, fairy-tale creature, half-man, half-horse. Living in a herd, they constantly fought with those who lived next door, denied all manifestations of civilization and... In the paintings, centaurs can be seen with the gods of winemaking Dionysus and love Eros. This once again speaks of their promiscuity in love and penchant for alcohol.

Did centaurs exist?

When wondering whether such creatures could exist in the real world, it is difficult to come to a consensus. Plutarch, the philosopher of Ancient Greece, once described the story of how a shepherd handed him a foal that a horse had just given birth to. What was unusual was that the cub had the head and arms of a human. It turns out that centaurs existed, because Plutarch is a serious philosopher, but at the same time, he really loved to joke. So this story could be a good joke for posterity. Were there really centaurs? This question remains a mystery, like the mystery of the Egyptian pyramids.

What does a centaur look like?

In many sources, the description of this unusual creature is somewhat different from each other. A centaur is a mythical creature that contains two different species at the same time - a man and a horse. The resemblance to a person is noted in the head and body to the waist, the centaur has human hands, the body, muscular strong limbs, hooves and a tail were inherited from the horse. On the face of the centaur is written the rudeness characteristic only of animals; they have long hair and a thick beard, and ears can be seen, like those of a horse.

There is no contrasting transition between the body of a man and a horse, since the centaurs were considered bay horses, and their human body was tanned in the sun. It is generally accepted that centaurs were only male representatives. And ancient images show that they had both human and stallion genitals. Almost nothing is known about female centaurs.

How did centaurs appear?

Mythology says that these unusual creatures trace their ancestry to the Lapith king Ixion and his mistress, the goddess Nephele. As a result of this love, the first representatives of this species appeared in the Pelephronian cave. On Mount Pelion they were raised by nymphs, and upon reaching maturity, the young centaurs entered into a relationship with mares. This is how the centaur in mythology began his history.

Types of centaurs

In addition to the classic appearance, there are other variations of these creatures. But the features of a person are always preserved in conjunction with some kind of animal.

Centaurs are creatures from Greek myths, mixanthropic and powerful. Their human head and torso are connected to the body of a horse. Centaurs live in the mountains and forest thickets, often, together with nymphs and satyrs, they are part of the retinue of Dionysus.

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Centaurs and their origins

The main distinguishing feature is a violent temper and intemperance. According to some sources, centaurs initially appeared as the embodiment of stormy mountain rivers and rapid streams. Heroic myths divide centaurs into two types - benevolent sages, educators of heroes, and hostile savages.

The word “centaur” itself, or its Latinized counterpart “centaur”, is divided into two Greek roots - “ken”, that is, “to chop”, And "tauros" - "bull". Many nations have an image of such a creature. It probably appeared after the collision of sedentary civilizations, which had no traditions of horse riding, with nomadic ones, where horse riders were an integral part of the culture. These were the northern nomadic tribes: Scythians, Kassites, Taurians. Hence the common feature of all centaurs - their ferocity, as well as a traceable connection with bulls, since cattle breeding forms the basis of the nomadic economy.

The euhemeric interpretation of ancient times attributes the appearance of centaurs to two settlements. In the first of them, the village of Tucha, lived young men who saddled horses for the first time. They became skilled riders and destroyed all the wild bulls that lived nearby. In the second city, Pelephronia, people learned to tame horses earlier than the inhabitants of the surrounding settlements.

Another interpretation attributes even greater antiquity to the centaurs: supposedly their appearance occurred during the period of the Indo-European language and the collapse of the unity of the Greco-Aryan dialect. According to this theory, the word "centaur" is a modified version of "gandharva". Vedic mythology speaks of the Gandharvas as minor gods, drivers of the solar chariot. The theory is partly confirmed by archaeological finds: two figurines of centaurs were discovered during excavations in Ugarit among Mycenaean ceramics. This suggests, at a minimum, that centaurs were known back in the Bronze Age. The “Hero’s Tomb” in Lefkandi is decorated with a terracotta centaur - this is also a famous monument with a similar mythical creature.

Greek mythology and centaurs

Half-human, half-horse people in Greek legends have varied origins. Otherwise it gave birth to them cloud with the appearance of Hera with whom he copulated King of Thessaly Ixion, son of Ares, or else Kronos and Philyra, not that Apollo from one of the nymphs. Could give birth to this tribe and Poseidon, the first creator of horses in the Greek pantheon - his animalistic attribute was the horse. In addition, parents were also considered Ixion with Nephele.

A number of legends indicate the ancestor of this tribe first Centaur, from which the Magnesian mares suffered. In this case, it is believed that the Pelionians were involved in their upbringing. When the centaurs matured, they mated mares, which later gave birth to the second generation of half-humans, half-horses.

The origin of the wisest representative of the half-animal tribe is known for certain - centaur Chiron. He was begotten by the titan Kronos from the daughter of the chthonic Ocean - Philira. The Titan and the sea goddess celebrated their wedding secretly from Rhea. Kronos' legal wife Rhea caught her husband with his mistress in a moment of passion. Frightened Kronos took on the appearance of a stallion. The son was born half horse and half man.

Education of Achilles (Centaur Chiron). Gottlieb Schick

Chiron was immortal, unlike his brothers. He studied medicine, music, loved and knew how to hunt, masterfully shot a bow, was known as an expert in military affairs, but was kind and merciful. His friend was the god of art Apollo, and his students were the most famous Greek heroes like Achilles, Hercules, Theseus and Jason. Asclepius learned the art of healing from Chiron.

The death of the good centaur was terrible: Hercules accidentally wounded him with an arrow containing poison. Chiron was immortal, and therefore his torment lasted indefinitely. The incurable wound drove the centaur crazy, he wanted to die. Chiron refused eternal life on one condition - Zeus would free the titan Prometheus from the shackles. The Thunderer agreed to fulfill this request - he freed the titan, and turned Chiron himself into the constellation Centaur.

One way or another, they were distinguished by their violent temperament, love of meat, drunkenness and debauchery. They were constantly at enmity with the Lapiths, since there are no women among the centaurs, and the Lapiths had wives. Half-humans, half-horses constantly tried to kidnap them. When Hercules defeated and dispersed them, the centaurs scattered throughout Greece.

A slightly different look at centaurs

They are often called the most harmonious creatures of mythical zoology. Ovid's Metamorphoses called the centaurs "two-formed." Despite its heterogeneous (dual) nature, along with the archetypes of horse, man and rider, there is the archetype of the centaur. Primitive images more closely resembled naked people with the croup of a horse. The Temple of Zeus in Olympia, on its western pediment, can boast of centaurs of a more familiar appearance to us: below the torso, a man flows into the body of a horse.

Pediment sculptures of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia (5th century BC)

In the era of the famous Homer, horse riding was not common among the Greeks - one might say, it did not exist at all. The first travelers who came to Greece on horseback seemed to them to be one with their horses. A similar theory is confirmed by the not so distant first clash of the conquistadors with Indian tribes. Pissaro and Hernan Cortes with their soldiers, they seemed to the redskins to be real centaurs, one with the horses. In one of the clashes, superstition and horror played a key role: after the first shots, one of the conquistadors fell out of the saddle - and then the Indians, confident that there was one creature in front of them, considered the division of the whole in two nothing less than a terrible miracle. The Indians fled.

But the Greeks had horses, unlike the Indian tribes, who knew only bison. A more plausible version seems to be that centaurs are a specially created mythical image. They reflected one of the facets of reality as the ancient Greeks saw it.

The most famous myths about centaurs

The most popular is centauromachy- a myth about the battle of centaurs and lapiths at a wedding. The Lapiths, wanting to find peace with their old enemies, invited the tribe of centaurs to the wedding of Hippodamia (Hippodamia) and Perithous. But peace did not work out: the tipsy guests began to insult the bride, tried to kidnap her, and then overturned tables and started a fight. This scene inspired Rubens to create The Rape of Hippodamia. Before Rubens, Ovid described this scene in the seventh book of Metamorphoses. It is believed that the Lapiths defeated and expelled the centaurs from Thessaly. In another version of the myths, the centaurs were less fortunate: Hercules shot everyone with a bow.

Plutarch did not ignore these creatures either. “The Supper of the Seven Wise Men” contains a humorous story about the Corinthian despot Periander, who was brought a newborn mare calf - up to the navel the calf was just like a man, and below it had the body of a horse. The cub cried like a human baby, and the courtiers saw this as an ominous sign. But when Periander turned to the sage Thales, he examined the cub and laughingly informed the ruler that he did not approve of the behavior of the shepherds.

The poet Lucretius insisted on the impossibility of the existence of such creatures. He considered the proof of his theory that horses mature earlier than people, and a three-year-old centaur would have the body of an adult horse and the body of a babbling child. In addition, the horse part would have died half a century earlier than the human part. The Greeks objected to him by the fact that centaurs could grow like people - with both parts of themselves. The people held tightly to their belief in myths and mystical creatures.

The main reason why centaurs do not show themselves to people was their small number after the massacre at the Lapith wedding. Then most of the tribe died, and when the survivors began to look for a new place to live, they met. They destroyed them with mellifluous singing. The god of the seas, Poseidon, nevertheless saved some, hiding them in Eleusis, in the mountains.

The history of the most famous hero of the Greeks, Hercules, is closely connected with the centaurs. He was taught by Chiron, Hercules entered into confrontation with Ankiy, Agrios, Oreius and Giray. The centaur Pylenor was wounded by Hercules. He washed his wound in the waters of the river, causing it to smell disgusting. Pholus became an accidental victim of Hercules' poisoned arrows. Alcyone became the object of the harassment of Homad, also a centaur, and was killed by the hero.

The life of Hercules ended with the indirect participation of a centaur. A certain Nessus kidnapped the wife of Hercules, but he shot him. When Nessus was dying, he advised the maiden to collect his blood, and when Hercules grew cold towards his wife over the years, to use it as a love potion. That’s exactly what happened: years later, the hero took a mistress and turned away from his wife. Then Deianira soaked her husband’s clothes with poisonous blood. Hercules died in terrible agony.

The constellation Sagittarius is the muses' half-brother. His abode was Helikon, and his name was Krotos. His parents were Pan and Euphem. He had a classic half-human, half-horse appearance, but instead of a horse's tail he had a satyr's tail - inherited from his father. He shot with a bow no worse than Chiron - it was Krotos who is credited with the invention of the bow and arrow, as well as the first successful hunting of wild animals with a bow. Applause is also his invention, which has become an analogue of prayer to the muses. For the invention of applause, Krotos was ascended to the firmament, where he took on the appearance of Sagittarius.

The famous Chiron and Pholus were depicted in a special way, emphasizing their attitude towards civilized people. Their front legs were made to look human, and their croup - like a horse. Chiron had more to do with people - he wore clothes, his ears were human. And Fol did not wear clothes, he had horse ears.

Despite the fact that centaurs are exclusively male, in some legends there are still female centaurs. This is not the most common point of view in myths. They don't have much weight in mythology. They are often confused with nymphs - they are beautiful in body and soul. The most famous centaurid is Gilonoma, the wife of Tsillar. Tsillar and Gilonoma were invited to the wedding of the Lapiths. When the massacre began, Hercules killed Gilonoma's husband. She grieved for a long time and eventually committed suicide.

Referring to representatives of the result of mixing two different entities: a person and a horse. From the first he got the head and torso with human arms, and from the second he got the strong body of a horse with muscular limbs, hooves and a horse's tail. The facial features are distinguished by animal roughness. Often the look is completed with a thick beard and horse ears. Traditionally, they belonged to the bay color, so the lower part did not contrast very much in color with the tanned human torso. Initially, centaurs were male. In some of the most ancient images of these creatures, two types of genitalia are simultaneously presented: both horse and human.

Like skilled wild hunters, centaurs were often armed with a log, bow, spear, or simply a heavy stone. By nature, these hybrids are violent, willful and unbridled, loving freedom. That is why the main habitat for them became mountainous spaces not conquered by people or deep forest thickets.

In the art of war, centaurs were significantly superior to ordinary people. They had powerful strength, moved very quickly, and had javelin throwing skills honed to the pinnacle of excellence. Their movements in battle were not hampered by anything: they did not wear any clothes, much less armor. Sometimes they just threw on a cloak to look more decent. A shield was used to protect against the enemy. Some Greek warriors more than once turned to the Centaurs for combat lessons or measured their strength with them in order to evaluate their own skills.

The attitude of the Centaurs, as they are called in the Latinized manner, towards intelligent beings was completely ambiguous. Some were so hostile that people tried their best to avoid meeting them. They became especially violent and uncontrollable in a drunken stupor. Others could offer their help to humanity. But most often this concerned exclusively young and beautiful girls. But in most cases, no one has ever seen these women again.

One legend tells about a foolish merchant. The centaur met him wounded on the road and, showing compassion, offered his help. Instead of gratitude, the fool decided to throw a saddle on the freedom-loving creature. Angry at the offender, the centaur, without hesitation, killed the merchant.

How did centaurs appear?

There are several versions of the origin of the first centaurs. Mythology suggests divine roots in the origin of these creatures. In ancient times, a tribe called the Lapiths lived in the north of Thessaly. They were ruled by King Ixion, who was the blood son of the god of war called Ares. Ixion had the audacity to fall in love with the goddess Hera herself. And in order to resolve the emerging conflict, Zeus created an exact copy of Hera from a light cloud, which he named Nephele. From this union of Ixion and the goddess Nephele the first strange creature appeared with four hooves, but with the head of a man. The unusual offspring were exiled to Mount Pelion, where they took up their upbringing.

Having matured, the half-man - half-horse entered into close relationships with the breeding mares that lived in this area. The offspring were the same centaurs, but of both sexes, which made it possible for further reproduction in the traditional natural way. In addition, centaurs began to choose not only four-legged friends as life partners, but also ordinary representatives of the beautiful part of humanity or nymphs. These half-animals had more than enough passion and fire for several wives at once.

Subsequently, the centaurs more than once entered into battles with the Lapiths, intending to appropriate local women. After Hercules defeated them, the remaining individuals dispersed throughout Greece.

Ancient peoples also talk about a more practical approach to the origin of myths about the legendary centaurs. We are talking about those distant times when the inhabitants of Ancient Greece used horses for riding, only harnessing them to chariots. It was, first of all, prestigious and showed an appropriate level of wealth. But, most importantly, in battle this method of movement was much more effective and safer for warriors. But the wild nomadic tribes have already mastered the skills of riding horses. And when such horsemen came close to the borders of ancient Hellas, the local residents unknowingly thought that they represented the unity of man and horse.

Centaur Chiron

Despite some of the divine origins of the centaurs, they, like ordinary people and animals, were mortals. Only a few were endowed with eternal life. One of these representatives was the famous Chiron. He was an exceptionally wise centaur, who, in addition to mastering military skills, was well versed in matters of healing and was an expert in music. Unlike his brothers, he had a kind, open heart. His end is sadly described. Hercules accidentally wounded him with an arrow, the tip of which was poisoned with deadly poison from the Lernaean hydra. The pain from the wound caused Chiron truly inhuman suffering. Eternal life in torment was foreseen to him simply unbearable. He voluntarily renounced his immortality, for which Zeus freed Prometheus and immortalized Chiron in the sky in the form of the Centaurus constellation.

It is reliably known that horses have never been found on this remote continent. How the Australian aborigines managed to depict a horse with a human torso is unknown.

Defects transmitted over centuries

Program failure or echo of old experiments?

This is what is around us. - people with a discrepancy between the anatomical sex of an individual and his gender identity (mental sex), there are millions of them, they are among us.

We have what we have