Researchers
insist that centaurs actually existed
Archeologists
have discovered rock paintings depicting strange
creatures and called them teriantrops, hybrids of
humans and animals. Researchers believe that ancient
artists made the painting from life.
Paul Takon from
the Australian Museum in Sydney and anthropologist
Christopher Chippendale from the University of Cambridge
say that such hybrids, including centaurs, were highly
likely living side by side with primitives. In Australia
and South Africa, the researchers discovered dozens of
rock paintings showing animals with human heads and
humans with animal heads that may be over 32 thousand
years old.
They have had the
first in history detailed study of the strange drawings.
The study covered about 5,000 rock paintings of our
ancestors; the researchers systematized the frequency
and the types of depicted teriantrops and determined
their ages. They arrived at a conclusion that animal men
actually existed in the remote past. They believe
that primitives could hardly draw what they never saw.
Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome also tell
us about animal men, and centaurs are the most frequent
ones. These are creatures with the human torso
transforming into the feet of a horse or some other
animal, a bull, a donkey, a sheep and even a goat. The
word centaur is a compound of KEN (kenw) meaning "I
kill" and TAUROS meaning "bull", and it reveals
astronomic knowledge of our ancestors. When the
constellation of Sagittarius (Centaurus throwing a
spear) appears in the night skies, we can no longer see
Taurus, one of the Sun symbols.
The anciet
legends say that centaurs came down from the Greek
mountains where they failed to keep up friendly
relations with the local population. As far as some
centaurs loved drinking wine, they easily flew into a
rage and conflicted with people.
Mythology
expert, Candidate of historical sciences Alexander
Guryev says that animal men were the result of buggery,
sex contacts between men and animals, which were quite
typical of the ancient epochs. The expert adds that many
people believed that they descended from animals:
Tibetans believed they descended from monkeys, Hindu
believed that horses were their ancestors and people in
Thailand thought they descended from the dog.
Some ancient legends
are absolutely strange indeed. There is an old Greek
myth saying that great conqueror Alexander the Great was
conceived after a contact with a grass-snake, into whom
Zeus, the patron of all gods and humans, turned with the
view to seduce Olympia, the daughter of Macedonian king.
Historical sources
reveal that buggery was very popular among ancient
Greeks and Romans. A legend says that Greek scholar
Thales recommended his master Periandr not to engage
unmarried shepherds not to produce more centaurs. Roman
satirist Juvenalis wrote that "Roman women often exposed
their naked buttocks to tempt donkeys into sex
contacts." In Egypt, these contacts were part of the
fertility cult ceremony.
In
ancient times, warriors took a flock of sheep or goats
for every battle; they used animals for eating and
having sex. There is written evidence saying that
Italian soldiers deserted during the siege of Lyons by
catholics in 1562 because they had little sheep for sex
contacts. Allowing sex contacts between soldiers and
animals was believed the lesser evil than sex with
prostitutes. Respectable scholars - Paracelsus, Cardano
and famous accoucher of the 16th century Fortunio Liceti
- several times registered birth of hybrids, animal kids
born by humans and human kids born by animals. Their
notes mention horses, elephants, dogs and even lions.
Alexander Guryev says that some time ago
the official science would not recognize the possibility
of interbreeding of humans and animals. But recently
relaiable scientific sources have published results of
genetic experiments as a result of which researchers got
chimeras in test-tubes, germs having part of human and
part of animal cells. From the genetics point of view,
the difference between humans and animals makes just
several per cent. It is not ruled out that spontaneous
mutations may take place in rare instances, and natural
interbreeding is quite possible in this case. May it be
so that humans with such mutations lived in all
epochs?
Famous Danish anatomist Thomas
Bartolin wrote he saw a woman who had a baby with a cat
head after copulation with a cat. Medicine books of the
19-20th centuries describe instances of birth of animal
humans. At the end of the past century, some British
researchers wrote about black women living togetehr with
gorillas. Children born as a result of such contacts
could even do easy work abour the house and even speak.
Unfortunately, researchers had no chance of seeing these
creatures because the hybrids felt seriously hurt and
escaped to jungle.
Alexander Guryev says
that researchers have no whole centaur skeletons but
lots of upper and lower parts of centaurs skeletons.
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