centaur
demonic earth Christian corroborated · 9
A creature of mingled shape, half horse and half man, encountered by Anthony in the desert. The creature tried to speak in an unintelligible language and pointed directions before running away and vanishing from sight. It was interpreted as a demon trying to terrify Anthony, or alternately a creature engendered by the desert.
↻ synthesized from 9 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Appears in Greek mythology.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- satyr, Fauns, Incubi, Cyclops, Scylla, Charybdis, Medusa, Hydra, harpies, chimaera, Triton, Piasa Bird, basilisk, Kurma, Anggitay, Khepri, Kinnara, Ichthyocentaurs, Scorpion man, Serpopard, Minotaur, griffins, Pegasus, sphinxes, manticore, cherubim, Ziz, mermaids, jinn, Anzû, Harpy, Simurgh, Thunderbird, Pamola, Yali, Kamadhenu, Chimera, Lamashtu, Enlil, Sharabha, Apis, Buraq, Lakhmu, Aphrodite, Heracles, Athena, Hephaestus, Adonis, Eros, Phobos, Deimos, Harmonia, Cadmus, Anteros, Theritas, Halirrhothius, Alcippe, Agraulos, Chiron, Thetis, Nereids, Dioscuri, Cheiron, Mercury, Persephone, Flora, Zephyrus, Primavera, Archangel Gabriel, Saint Laurence, Holy Spirit, Zeus, Virgin Mary, Venus
- enemy of
- Lapithae, Pallas Athena
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (6)
encyclopedia (3)
- peer reviewed
- peer reviewed
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“Anthony first found the centaur, a 'creature of mingled shape, half horse half-man', whom he asked about directions. The creature tried to speak in an unintelligible language, but ultimately pointed with his hand the way desired, and then ran away”
#1524 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Some classical era creatures, such as the (horse/human) centaur, chimaera, Triton and the flying horse Pegasus, are found also in Indian art.”
#3999 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001