The reality is that the centaur race is marked in myth as particularly war like and fierce. |
The mythical centaur Chironia, cured a poison arrow wound with centaury, hence its name. |
King Steven who usurped the English throne in 1096 carried the centaur as his heraldic symbol for that reason. |
The centaur had her four cockatrices perched on the spine of her horse-like half, and her cat was at her side. |
This Polish-Thai gastronomic centaur signals either overinventiveness or a commendable resistance to good cooking's greatest foe, perfunctoriness. |
Originally the glyph was a centaur holding a bow and an arrow and aiming at a distant object. |