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Animals: From Mythology to Zoology
e centaur of classical mythology had the upper body of a man and the lower body
of a horse. e onocentaur, or onoscentaurus, is a close relative, being half man
and half donkey. Like the centaur, he is often depicted in bestiaries holding a
bow ...
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The Nile Mosaic of Palestrina: Early Evidence of Egyptian ...
7)1 The onocentaur is mentioned for the first time by Pythagoras in the time of
Ptolemy II, as quoted by Aelian NA II 9. Aelian also uses the female form
onokentaura. The description he gives seems rather fantastic: 'its body resembles
that of an ...
The Physiologus, in the chapter on the siren and onocentaur, says that the siren
has the figure of a human being to the navel, and in the other half the figure of a
bird.46 Isidore follows this tradition in general, but adds that it has wings and ...
University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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The dreamer [by W. King.].
In the fame memorial Porcus informed him (for the general was not very
conversant in ancient history) that Augustus Cæsar, after the battle of Actium,
erected a statue of brass to an Onocentaur, called Nicon, to whose name the
Emperor chiefly ...
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Hyperion and the Great Balls of Fire
But the Manticore flipped the helm to the Onocentaur, and then wrapped its tail
around the trident. It yanked. Hard. The trident slipped from Poseidon's hands.
Now the Manticore had it! The Onocentaur brayed with laughter. The half man,
half ...
Joan Holub, Suzanne Williams, 2013
I have not yet swallowed the Rimatrix nor the 320 Onocentaur, the Rhinoceros
was monstrous. Guido. Sir, be you of the more flexible nature, and confess an
error. Claridiana. I must, the gods of love command, And that bright star, her eye,
that ...
John Marston, Giorgio Melchiori, William Barksted, 1984
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Encyclopedia of Greco-Roman Mythology
Onocentaur. Greek A class of centaur with the tail and legs of an ass rather than
those of a horse. Opheltes. Greek The son of King Lycurgus of Nemaea. His
father was warned by an oracle that the infant Opheltes must not be allowed to
touch ...
To test this theory, let us briefly examine Autun and Vezelay, two prominent
examples of the siren and onocentaur theme where the beasts appear in different
image sequences. At Autun the siren and onocentaur occupy a prominent place
in a ...
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The Dictionary of the Esoteric: 3000 Entries on the Mystical ...
Oni In Japanese folk belief, demons with claws and horns that in many ways
resemble the devils of medieval sorcery. Onocentaur Medieval variant on the
classical centaur, it was half-man, half-ass. Dedicated at all costs to preserving its
liberty ...
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The garden of crossing paths: the manipulation and rewriting ...
1471) the onocentaur is combined with the siren who seems to beckon him. The
two monsters are of course physically different, but they share two iconographic
details: the belt connecting their human half to the animal, and the gesture of the
...
Marina Buzzoni, Massimiliano Bampi, Università degli studi di Venezia. Dipartimento di scienze del linguaggio, 2005
