The grotesque in church art . of the being who has subjected him. One of the oldGreek gold staters has a man driving a chariot in which thehorse has a human head ; while the man is urging the horsewith the sacred three-branched rod, each branch of whichterminates in a trefoil. The centaur has a yet unallottedplace in the symbolism of the sun-myth. Classic myth-ology says Chiron the centaur was the teacher of Apolloin music, medicine, and hunting, and centaurs are mostlysagittarii or archers, whose arrows, like those of Apollo, arcthe sunbeams. The centaur met in Gothic ornament is theZodiacal
The grotesque in church art . of the being who has subjected him. One of the oldGreek gold staters has a man driving a chariot in which thehorse has a human head ; while the man is urging the horsewith the sacred three-branched rod, each branch of whichterminates in a trefoil. The centaur has a yet unallottedplace in the symbolism of the sun-myth. Classic myth-ology says Chiron the centaur was the teacher of Apolloin music, medicine, and hunting, and centaurs are mostlysagittarii or archers, whose arrows, like those of Apollo, arcthe sunbeams. The centaur met in Gothic ornament is theZodiacal Sagittarius, and true to this original derivation, thecentaur is generally found with his bow and arrow. It is said that the Irish saints, Ciaran and Nessan, arethe same with the centaurs Chiron and Nessus. A capital of the south doorway, Iffley, has a uniquecomposition of centaurs. A female centaur, armed with bow(broken) and arrow, is suckling a child centaur after thehuman manner. The equine portions of the figures are in. COMPOUND FORMS. 165 exceptionally good drawing, though the tremendous elongationof the human trunks, and the ill-rendered position, renderthe group very grotesque. Both the mother and child wearthe classic cestus or girdle. The bow carried by the motheris held apparently in readiness in the left hand, while it isprobable that the right breast was meant to be shown re-moved, as was stated of the Amazons. The mother looks
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