Centaur : beings having the upper part of a human being & the lower part of a horse, living in the woods or mountains of Elis, Arcadia, & Thessaly.
... cursed her with the gift of prophecy, with the hitch that her prophecies would never be believed. Cauldron: a large kettle. Centaur: a member of the race, half man and half horse living in the mountains of Thessaly. Chiron: centaur renowned for his skill in medicine. Dardanus: son of Zeus and Electra, the daughter of Atlas; he married the daughter of Teucer ...
... how it should do so, one is bound to be touched by it. I was delighted to learn that you are a Sagittarian, for so am I. I was born on November 25. What's your date? The astrological sign - a Centaur shooting with a bow - suits me very well. To be at least half a horse is a great honour. Horses have been my passion ever since my childhood and because of the defect in one of my legs I have lived... writings may be directed to reveal verities, get to the living centre of every topic and, at the finest point, lay bare the fundamental reality of things. Do the astrologers actually say that the Centaur-natures aim darts carelessly as you say you do? Some degree of horse-play is to be expected, a kind of jolly practice of hurling arrows suddenly on all sides and tearing through pretences and disturbing ...
... Mother ever encouraged this faddism. I recollect her to have always been ironical in such matters. Apropos of the cow-theme, a curious amusing idea strikes me. My birth-sign is Sagittarius, the Centaur, half man half horse. As you know, I am a passionate horse-lover. And I think I am fairly masculine, but Sri Aurobindo's name Page 148 for me - Amal Kiran, 'The Clear Ray" - can have ...
... that he was invulnerable with the exception of the heel by which she held him. (Hence our modem day expression "Achilles heel" which means a weak point.) Achilles was educated by Chiron, the elder centaur known for his deep wisdom. An oracle in his father's court predicted that Achilles would die fighting in Troy. To escape this prophecy his mother disguised him as a girl and sent him to live with the ...
... 56 Ibid ., p. 577. 57 Ibid ., p. 674. 58 Ibid ., p. 379. 59 Ibid ., p. 375. Page 502 The stealthy footfalls of her chasing things, The shaggy emerald of her centaur mane, The gold and sapphire of her warmth and blaze. 60 The poet addresses the ferocious animals as "things" and Nature's plant kingdom dons on itself the identity of the mythical being ...
... Aurobindo has such a usage elsewhere in Savitri. On p. 390 he speaks of the various moods in which "Earth" shows herself. One of them is her woodland aspect - The shaggy emerald of her centaur mane - followed by her aspect of sky: The gold and sapphire of her warmth and blaze. The poem has also another instance of "emerald" as a noun in a context of woods and grasses. Satyavan ...
... birth. In its new birth it is simply a recollection of the same knowledge. 56. Asclepius is said to be the Greek demigod of healing. Legend says that his father, Apollo, sent him to Chiron, a centaur, to learn the art of healing. He was so gifted that apart from healing, he could also restore life to the dead. Apprehensive about his restorative powers that could upset the natural order in the world ...
... immortal; she dipped the child in the waters of the sacred river of Styx, but since she held him by the heel, he remained vulnerable at that point. Later on, Peleus took his son Achilles to Chiron, the Centaur who taught him the arts of war and other arts like music and painting. Achilles was destined to be the greatest of the heroes of the Trojan War. IV The city of Troy stood on Mt. Ida. This ...
... and queen of Troy. She was loved by Apollo but deceived him. In retaliation the god turned to a curse the gift of prophecy he had bestowed on her, causing her prophecies never to be believed. Centaurs: Fabulous creatures, for the Cassandra, being slaved by Ajax in Athena's temple. Apollo is seen behind. Page 112 most part of a wild and unruly nature... accomplishment of which would make him immortal. One of the labours, referred to in Ilion, was that of killing the Hydra. In Ilion reference is also made to a fight which Heracles had with the Centaurs who, maddened with wine, attacked him. The First Labour of Heracles is shown on this cup, where he kills the lion of Nemea. Page 118 Hermes:... Zeus, and king of Phthia. For his virtue he was given as wife the sea goddess Thetis, who bore him Achilles. Pelion: Mountain in Thessaly, northern Greece. It was the legendary home of the centaurs. Penthesilea: Amazon queen, daughter of Ares. She came to the aid of the Trojans in the last year of the war after Hector was killed and gave them new hope, slaughtering the Greeks who fought ...
... flowers, Into the lonely borders of my life, O Sunlight moulded like a golden maid? 190 Not unused to the denizens of the upper air, Satyavan has in the past heard the "centaur's wizard song", glimpsed the apsaras in their abandon, and "beheld the princes of the Sun"; has she come too from "the Thunderer's worlds?" Perhaps she will condescend to abide with mortals: ...
... storm on the heath — Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That make ungrateful men! — and he castigates women and their passions — Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women all above; But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends': There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit... Then take ...
... deep-honied heart, New-brimming with a sweet and nectarous wine. Thou hast not spoken with the kings of pain. Life's perilous music rings yet to thy ear Far-melodied, rapid, grand, a Centaur's song, Or soft as water plashing mid the hills, Or mighty as a great chant of many winds. Moon-bright thou livest in thy inner bliss. Thou comest like a silver deer through groves ...
... whisper of blessing, or by a rhapsodical beauty as in Page 157 Lustrously pale like the starlight when the air has been washed by the rain, Gleam and bend cloud-centaurs from afar Moon-bow that is aiming, silver-taut, Arrows made of silence at a star, or with a vividly strange suggestiveness — Only a moon-pale ledge of rock, Lapped ...
... nature fickle as sea-foam. Now if the ancient spirit of Titan battle is over,- Tros fights no more on the earth, nor now Heracles tramples and struggles, Bane of the hydra or slaying the Centaurs o'er Pelion driven, Now if the earth no more must be shaken by Titan horse-hooves, Page 82 Since to a pettier framework all things are fitted consenting, Yet will I dwell not ...
... "what is exquisite about Sri Aurobindo's imagination is the gentle yoking of usually irreconcilable elements like sky and forest into one metaphor: emerald." He transfers the fabulous quality of centaurs to Nature with the colour of emerald mane. Or else when Satyavan is described as a "sapphire cutting" from heaven, it is suggested that he is also the possessor of that immensity of luminous heaven ...
... and the nature fickle as sea-foam. Now if the ancient spirit of Titan battle is over,– Tros fights no more on the earth, nor now Heracles tramples and struggles, Bane of the hydra or slaying the Centaurs o'er Pelion driven,– Now if the earth no more must be shaken by Titan horsehooves, Since to a pettier framework all things are fitted consenting, Yet will I dwell not in Greece nor favour the nurslings ...
Share your feedback. Help us improve. Or ask a question.