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Matsya – An avatar of Lord Vishnu that is half-man half-fish. Merfolk – A race of half-human, half-fish creatures. The males are called Mermen and the females are called Mermaids. Auvekoejak – A merman from Inuit folklore of Greenland and northern Canada that has fur on its fish tail instead of scales. Ceasg – A Scottish mermaid.
The Greek word kentauros is generally regarded as being of obscure origin. [4] 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. [5]
From the back porch, you can take in the view of a world-renown thoroughbred horse farm once owned by a Saudi prince. This grand $2.5M Lexington estate has views of horse country and famed farm ...
An illustration of the Centaurus and Lupus constellation . In Greek mythology, Centaurus (Ancient Greek: Κένταυρος, romanized: Kentauros) is the son of Apollo and Stilbe, daughter of the river-god Peneius and the naiad Creusa.
A man who lied about being a Navy SEAL and put other false information on loan documents in an attempt to start a horse business in Lexington has been sentenced to prison time for fraud ...
Keeneland Sales is an American Thoroughbred auction house in Lexington, Kentucky founded in 1935 as a nonprofit racing/auction entity on 147 acres (0.59 km 2) of farmland west of Lexington, which had been owned by Jack O. Keene. A division of Keeneland Association, Inc., it holds three annual horse auctions that attract buyers from around the ...
Lexington, the horse and its history, make appearance at Kentucky Book Festival. Linda Blackford. October 27, 2022 at 1:13 PM. Author Geraldine Brooks didn’t get horse fever until she was 50 ...
Payne Whitney operated a horse farm and stable at Saratoga Springs, New York with his brother Harry Payne Whitney, who also had a large stable of horses. Greentree Stable had a training base at Aiken, South Carolina, while Greentree Farm in Lexington, Kentucky was established in 1925 as its breeding arm.