Ambrose Bierce defined a centaur in his satirical "The Devil’s Dictionary" as: CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the primitive economic maxim, "Every man his own horse."
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A centaur wearing a coat & trousers facing away from the viewer, heading towards a mysterious ruin. Artist: Marlena Cannon
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“The Vanishing Castle” features a #centaur as the main character! What are your favorite books with centaur heroes? Let me know and I’ll add them to my TBR.
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#Centaurs have long been a symbol of polarity. Savage vs. civilized, reason vs. intellect.
Freud saw the centaur as a model for human nature. The human half represented the conscious ego and superego. The horse half symbolized the unconscious id, with its primal drives and impulses.
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MET Museum: Textile from Perugia featuring centaur. The inscription, only partially legible and apparently mixing Latin and Italian, invokes the name of Christ and the Church, indicating the cloth’s original use in a religious context.
#Centaur facts: Centaurs began to disappear from retellings of myths beginning in the 6th century CE. However, in the middle ages, centaurs began appearing in imagery in Christian churches, where they were associated with bestial desires or even the devil hunting for human souls. #centaursunday
MET Museum: Cypriot Centaur
Figurines of #centaurs are popular in the art of ancient Cyprus and are often found as offerings in sanctuaries, which suggests that they had religious significance.
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