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The Old Gray Mare, the horse in the eponymous song; Paul Revere, the horse from the song of the same name, Paul Revere, by the Beastie Boys; Een paard in de gang, a horse which somehow ended up in neighbour Jansen's hallway. From the eponymous song by comedian André van Duin. Pinto the wonder horse from the song by Tom T. Hall.
Gyllir, a horse whose name translates to "the golden coloured one" [8] Hamskerpir and Garðrofa, the parents of Hófvarpnir [9] Hófvarpnir, horse of the goddess Gná [1] Hrímfaxi, Nótt's horse [10] Skinfaxi, Dagr's horse [11] Sleipnir, Odin's eight-legged horse [12] Svaðilfari, the stallion that fathered Sleipnir [13]
The Horses of Neptune, illustration by Walter Crane, 1893.. Horse symbolism is the study of the representation of the horse in mythology, religion, folklore, art, literature and psychoanalysis as a symbol, in its capacity to designate, to signify an abstract concept, beyond the physical reality of the quadruped animal.
The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol's function.); The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it;
The practice of breeding a mare through human assisted means, with no contact between the stallion and mare. It is done for many reasons, including to protect the two animals, to allow a mare to be bred to a stallion a long distance away, [1]: 11 or to allow a stallion to be bred to a larger number of mares than would be possible via natural cover.
This contempt is echoed in the Skáldskaparmál, where Hrungnir, the clay man conceived by the giants, has the heart of a mare: frightened, he urinates himself when he sees Thor. [51] In the sagas, the mare is a symbol of passive masculinity, and the mere use of this name to designate a man became an insult. [52]
Mare Sheehan (Kate Winslet), fictional main character in HBO crime drama Mare of Easttown; Mayor Mare (Cathy Weseluck), fictional character in the series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic; The Mare, a 2015 novel by American author Mary Gaitskill; Mare, another name for Thalassa in classical mythology
Before the herd reached the water, Muhammad blew his battle horn for the horses to return to she. Only five mares responded. Because they faithfully returned to their master, though desperate with thirst, these mares became his favorites and were called Al Khamsa, and became the legendary founders of the five "strains" of the Arabian horse.