A myth is a symbolic story that conveys truths about culture and origins, rather than recording true events, while legends are semi-true stories passed down over time with meaning or symbolism. Myths often involve supernatural beings and explain beginnings. The centaur is a mythological creature that is half-human and half-horse, seen as both embodiments of untamed nature and as teachers. According to Greek tradition, centaurs were born from the union of a king and a cloud disguised as the king's wife. Myths continue to be read and studied today as they help humans understand the world and their place in it by responding to eternal questions and providing guidance.

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 What are myths?
A myth is a story based on tradition or legend, which
has a deep symbolic meaning. A myth 'conveys a truth'
to those who tell it and hear it, rather than necessarily
recording a true event. Although some myths can be
accounts of actual events, they have become
transformed by symbolic meaning or shifted in time or
place. Myths are often used to explain universal and
local beginnings and involve supernatural beings. The
great power of the meaning of these stories, to the
culture in which they developed, is a major reason why
they survive as long as they do - sometimes for
thousands of years.

4.  What are legends?
A legend is a semi-true story, which has been
passed on from person-to-person and has
important meaning or symbolism for the culture
in which it originates. A legend usually includes
an element of truth, or is based on historic facts,
but with 'mythical qualities'. Legends usually
involve heroic characters or fantastic places and
often encompass the spiritual beliefs of the
culture in which they originate.
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5. 1. The centaur is a mythological creature. Its head, arms, and chest are
those of a human and the rest of its body, including four legs,
hindquarters, and a tail is like that of a horse. There are also deer-
centaurs, dog-centaurs, and the Gaelic androcephalous or man-headed
horse.
2. 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.

6. THE ORIGIN OF THE CENTUAR
• Presence and illustrations of centaurs date back to Assyria (2000
BC) and India (3000 BC). Some have traced the Greek centaur
origins back to the Gandharvas who in Vedic mythology drove
the horses from the Sun but it is now accepted that they were a
primitive and rough population of horsed shepherds from
Thessalony. According to Greek tradition, there are two families
of centaurs. The more numerous and unruly centaurs are those
born of the union of Ixion, King of the Lapithae and a cloud
which Zeus disguised as his own wife, Hera, whom Ixion had
bragged of having relations with.

7. When the children are old
enough they are capable of
reading on their own. In olden
times in Greece the children
would mostly read about
mythological characters that
were related with Greece in
some way or the other.

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The popularity of myths and the way that they are still read and
studied just as much today suggests very strongly that myths are
much more than just stories, and that they have an important purpose
in today's world, just as they were important in ancient civilisations.
Myths can be described as sacred tales that help man understand the
world and his place in it. Myths often try to respond to eternal
questions, such as the origin of the existence of evil, and also, through
the archetypes that they provide, seem to give guidance to every
generation.

10. Myths basically serve as
examples of the distant
past, reminding us how
things were before our
world became so
technologically advanced
and minutely scrutinized.
They serve to emphasize
the heroic, the
supernatural, and the
ancient ways, and they
still are relevant in
explaining our outlook on