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Uchchaihshravas, Indra's horse in Hindu mythology; Keshi, a horse demon slain by Krishna in the Bhagavata Purana; Tikbalang, the demon horse in Philippine folklore; Tulpar, the winged or swift horse in Turkic mythology; Shabdiz horse of khosrow parvi, shah of Iran; Rakhsh, horse of Rostam, the great Iranian champion; Qianlima, winged horse in ...
The Greek word kentauros is generally regarded as being of obscure origin. [3] The etymology from ken + tauros, 'piercing bull', was a euhemerist suggestion in Palaephatus' rationalizing text on Greek mythology, On Incredible Tales (Περὶ ἀπίστων), which included mounted archers from a village called Nephele eliminating a herd of bulls that were the scourge of Ixion's kingdom. [4]
The Mares of Diomedes (Ancient Greek: Διομήδους ἵπποι, romanized: Diomēdous hippoi), also called the Mares of Thrace, were a herd of man-eating horses in Greek mythology. Magnificent, wild, and uncontrollable, they belonged to Diomedes of Thrace (not to be confused with Diomedes , son of Tydeus ), king of Thrace , son of Ares ...
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.
Haizum – horse of the archangel Gabriel (Islam) Hippogriff – winged horse with the head and upper body of an eagle (French, England) Ipotane – half-horse, half-humans, original centaurs (Greek) Karkadann – monstrous, highly aggressive unicorn (India, Persia) Kotobuki – Yokai with traits of all members of the Chinese zodiac
Deities depicted as horses or whose myths and iconography are associated with the horse. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
Arion is mentioned as early as in the Iliad of Homer, where he is described as the "swift horse of Adrastus, that was of heavenly stock." [10] A scholiast on this line of the Iliad explains that Arion was the offspring of Poseidon, who in the form of a horse, mated with Fury (Ἐρινύος) by the fountain Tilphousa in Boeotia.
Winged hippocamp in an Art Deco fountain, Kansas City, Missouri, (1937). The hippocampus, or hippocamp or hippokampos (plural: hippocampi or hippocamps; Ancient Greek: ἱππόκαμπος, from ἵππος, 'horse', and κάμπος, 'sea monster' [1]), sometimes called a "sea-horse" [2] in English, [citation needed] is a mythological creature mentioned in Etruscan, Greek, Phoenician, [3 ...