Sigittarius / Centaur

                         

"In Greek mythology, a centaur (from Greek: Κένταυρος, Kéntauros) or hippocentaur^[1][2][3] is a member of a composite race of creatures, part human and part horse. In early Attic and Boeotian vase-paintings (see below), they are depicted with the hindquarters of a horse attached to them; in later renderings centaurs are given the torso of a human joined at the waist to the horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be."

"Sagittarius (♐) (Greek: Τοξότης, "Toxotes", Latin: "Sagittarius") is the ninth astrological sign, which is associated with theconstellation Sagittarius. It spans the 240-270th degree of the zodiac, between 234.75 and 270 degree of celestial longitude, which theSun transits on average between November 23 to December 20 each year. Individuals born during either of these dates, depending on which system of Astrology they choose to follow, may be called Sagittarians. Under the sidereal zodiac, it is currently from December 16 to January 14."

"This half-human and half-horse composition has led many writers to treat them as liminal beings, caught between the two natures, embodied in contrasted myths, both as the embodiment of untamed nature, as in their battle with the Lapiths (their kin), or conversely as teachers, like Chiron."

"Centaurs were said to have inhabited the region of Magnesia and Mount Pelion in Thessaly, the Foloi oak forest in Elis, and the Malean peninsula in southern Laconia."

                     

                                       Dimensions height 43 cm

                                                         width  45 cm

                                                         depth  4 cm

                                   

Female centaurs flanking Venus (Mosaic from Roman Tunisia, 2nd century AD)





                                   

A bronze statue of a centaur, after the Furietti Centaurs.