. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English architecture . is also represented in a Flemish Bestiaryof the thirteenth century in the BritishMuseum. • In Greek classics the centaur is a creaturecompounded half of a man and half of a was descended from Ixion and Nephele,and symbolic of all forms of in his Mneid writes of centaurs at thegates of hell. Dante places them in theInferno. He describes them as armed withdarts, with which they shoot at violent menwho are condemned to be in a river of boilingblood. When Isaiah in xiii. 21 says that satyrsor he-goats
. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English architecture . is also represented in a Flemish Bestiaryof the thirteenth century in the BritishMuseum. • In Greek classics the centaur is a creaturecompounded half of a man and half of a was descended from Ixion and Nephele,and symbolic of all forms of in his Mneid writes of centaurs at thegates of hell. Dante places them in theInferno. He describes them as armed withdarts, with which they shoot at violent menwho are condemned to be in a river of boilingblood. When Isaiah in xiii. 21 says that satyrsor he-goats (Revised Version, margin) shalldance in the desolation of Babylon, he wasinterpreted by mediaeval zoologists as meaningthe centaur. The Sagittarius, or centaur, withbow and arrow, is one of the signs of theZodiac. One of the principal stories told about thecentaur or Sagittarius is that it makes warupon certain savage men in the deserts ofIndia. These savages have a horn in themiddle of their foreheads, and are naked,except when one of them has killed a lion, 150.
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