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half man, half horse, half fish — and somehow the math works in mythology
means A mythological sea-creature that is human from the waist up, horse in the middle, and fish at the tail — a centaur with a dolphin's hindquarters instead of horse legs.
from Built straight from Greek: ichthys, 'fish,' welded to kentauros, 'centaur.' The fish part runs deep — ichthys was later adopted by early Christians as a secret symbol and acronym for Christ. The creatures themselves, sometimes called Centaur-Tritons, swim through Greek myth as sea-beings, and the compound name is the natural result of an ancient habit of stacking nouns together to describe a hybrid no single word could hold.
- body count
- human torso, horse legs, fish tail combined
- sea cousins
- basically a centaur who learned to swim
- known names
- Bythos and Aphros pulled Aphrodite from foam
- horse problem
- a fish tail makes those front hooves pointless
tarasque heraldry emblem — creature depicted in provençal legends with fish tail and human torso, featured in tarascon, france coat of arms
archaeological roman mosaics — ichthyocentaur figures appear in 2nd-century ad roman floor mosaics from north africa and the mediterranean