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Why is centaur called centaur if taur means bull and its not a bull.?
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Ken-Tauros means slay[er] [of] bull[s] in Ancient Greek. The sagittary or archer centaur was a formidable hunter and warrior. The etymology is disputed, however. Kenos means 'empty' as used in English for cenotaph. If you wish to think of the centaur as empty bull, I can't stop you.
The Sicilian Greek, Empedocles, apparently wrote of the possibility of the bull-bodied man-faced counterpart of the minotaur. He may have known of the Lamassu bull-sphinx - a Babylonian protective demon.
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How was the Minotour born?
Minos, king of crete, received a beautiful white bull as a gift from Poseidon. He was meant to sacrifice it to Poseidon, but found it so beautiful that he sacrificed another bull instead. Angry, Poseidon made Minos' wife Pasiphae fall in love with the bull. She had the kings' engineer, Daedalus, construct a cow suit for her. In this the bull made her pregnant. When the child was born, it was half man and half bull. Mino means Minos, taur means bull.
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