Centaur

For this assignment, we read and discussed four different stories including Stephen King’s, Why We Crave Horror Movies; Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s, Why Vampires Never Die; Jorge Luis Borges’, The Origins of Half-Human, Half-Animal Creatures; and Frank Miller’s, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. While reviewing these stories it was apparent that there could be connections made between Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and the other three stories we read previously. It appears that Batman’s…

Seeing a half-human, half-horse in real life would be a great experience. A centaur would be that creature and he would have the head and torso of a human but the body of a horse. In Harry Potter the centaur places the role of having to save Harry and keep the woods in order like from Voldemort trying to stay alive by drinking unicorn blood. A centaur is a savior and anyone would be lucky to have one around because they’re so magical and are good protectors. The unicorn that Voldemort was…

Bible does not fully agree on what the people worshipped. Small clay figurines, like the Judean pillar figurines, which possibly depicted the goddess Asherah, were located within houses at several sites across the Levant. One site has an unusual centaur figurine, likely supporting a relationship with Cyprus. Protective amulets with either Egyptian influence or invoking YHWH have been found, indicating the people’s belief…

In celebration of black history month I would like to recognize Annie Easley who is a mathematician and computer scientist who helped develop power technology analysis software for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Her parents Mary Melvina Hoover and Samuel Bird Easley didn’t have any other child outside of Annie making her an only child between them. Ms. Easley was born April 23, 1933 in Birmingham, Alabama, where she completed grade school and high school. Fifth…

and extra-large strawberry chip cookies. I was three-quarters of the way through my cookie before I remembered to breathe. Mason slurped his cereal and explained our encounter with the centaur, and I shared our wish to find Shadow Mountain. Seth raised his hand. “So the troll wants to kill you, and the centaurs can’t help until you enter their realm. Hmm . . . I know you’re capable of warfare, but mind reading . . . that sounds a bit far-fetched.” I wrapped my hands around my glass. It wouldn’t…

constellation is referred to as "the Archer" and is usually depicted as a centaur holding a bow and arrow. Sagittarius can be found in the southern sky. Sagittarius was first cataloged by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century. Eratosthenes equated Sagittarius to Crotus, which is a mythical creature with two feet and a satyr's tail and the nurse to the nine muses. Eratosthenes thought this was more of a satyr rather than a centaur. However, according to the Roman author Hyginus,…

dense part of the sky is packed with many interesting astronomical objects worth observing. 2. The constellation I've chosen, Sagittarius, represents the centaur Chiron. Most centaurs were seen as bestial, after all, they were half horse. However, the past Greeks had a lot of respect for the horse, so they were reluctant to make the centaurs enteirely bad. Actually, Chiron was reowned for his tenderness. Later, Chiron was harmed by Hercules by acident. The arrow, that had been previously…

he asked a centaur to guide his wife, Deianara, a crossed the Evenus River, the centaur tried to rape her. When Heracles saw this he killed the centaur with an arrow that had the poison of the Hydra on the tip of it. The centaur told her to take some of his blood in order to make a love potion if she ever had doubts about Heracles. When she became suspicious of Heracles, she put the love potion on a tunic of his, in the hopes of him falling in love with her once again. But the centaur had lied…

kind of power?” “You are from the clan of the seventh in the line of seven with a heart as pure as sunshine,” the captain explained. “It will allow you to communicate with the centaur mind…

Here is a ye olde tale Once upon a time, in the magical land of Yang lived a young girl named Chino. She lived along with her family and a best friend named Vamsi, he was a head knight in the king’s own personal guard. Chino hoped one day that she could be the best story teller in the entire middle earth, like her aunt Rona, who was a silver tongue. Silver tongues are a race of magical story tellers, who had the power of weaving the best stories ever heard in all of the three worlds, and they…