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I found this sentence at the bottom of "Theories of Origins" section: 'The last known legitimate sighting was in Allamuchy, NJ circa October 1976.' Removing it now.Sully716 18:17, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

I removed the part about Centaurs being in TESIV:Oblivion. There is not a Centaur anywhere in the game. MusashiExtra 08:20, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Not to be rude but this article is not written in a style suitable for the wikipedia. LordFenix 19:09, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

"As children of Apollo, they are taken to signify the rays of the Sun." I removed this statement which embodies several misleading misconceptions. Wetman 00:44, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)

"Many centaur legends state that they are very fickle creatures, and often look to the sky to determine the fates. They are great astrologers and have a love for divination." This may be a modern pop astrology use of centaurs. Fickle astrologers, eh? Can anyone give a concrete instance that would support any element of these statements? --Wetman 22:28, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I've no clue as to where that came from, I was just moving it. Although come to think of it, the centaurs in Harry Potter are quite like that. Maybe that's what the tidbit's contributor was getting at. [[User:Premeditated Chaos|PMC]] 23:12, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Ah! "Centaurs in the Harry Potter series" is a perfectly good subsection, at a Harry Potter entry-- with a linking note here: "Modern centaurs have been reimagined in the Harry Potter books." or somesuch. Would a Potterite do this for us? --Wetman 00:16, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I'd be willing to try, being that I'm something of a closet Potterite. The only problem is that I haven't touched the books in at least a year, but that's easily fixed; I read fast. Edit: None of the other magical beasts in Potter are actually included in the article; they have separate entries elsewhere. Maybe we should make the Centaurs in Harry Potter subsection on the Centaur article itself, and link from Harry Potter? [[User:Premeditated Chaos|PMC]] 00:30, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I could swear the Narnian centaurs were stargazers too. It stems from the story of sagittarius, I'm sure, and the idea that one of their number is living in the sky with other creatures.. naturally they'd give it a look.

I believe you are speaking of Chiron? Wikidragon 21:17, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

The "fickle creatures" bit was added by User:Premeditated Chaos 17:49, 27 Nov 2004. I've deleted it. --Wetman 00:51, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I removed the incoherent nonsense of the second and third paragraphs and the two single sentences that followed. Why was this reverted? 15.195.185.76 16:38, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

For the same reasons it was put there to begin with: vandalism, or thinking that Wikipedia is a joke encyclopedia. Twit happens. Coyoty 19:30, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Could we mention the similarity between the centaurs and the gandarewa-Gandharvas? I am not skilled at editing the Wikipedia. Quote from the Ghandarvas page: In Hinduism and Buddhism, the Gandharvas (Sanskrit: गंधर्व, gandharva) are male nature spirits, husbands of the Apsaras. Some are part animal, usually a bird or _horse_(my emphasis). They have superb musical skills. They guarded the Soma and made beautiful music for the gods in their palaces. Their name may be cognate with that of the Greek centaurs. Gene K 08:25, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

They may be anthropomorphic, but unless they have a mainly human body from the waist up with an animal body from the neck down, they wouldn't be centaurs. Also, the Gandharva page is unsourced and may not be accurate. The one non-hearsay source I could find about gandharvas and centaurs, The Religions of India by Edward Washburn Hopkins, says, "The Gandharva, moon, is certainly one with the Persian Gandarewa, but can hardly be identical with the Centaur." Coyoty 17:40, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 'Did centaurs actually exist?' article is non-sense! 2 Narnia book order 3 Unorthodox theories on Centaur page moved here 4 Different Picture Please! 5 Content is inapropriate for a serious reference work 6 Photo is NOT of a Centuar 7 Portrayal 8 POV

[edit] 'Did centaurs actually exist?' article is non-sense!

External links: Did centaurs actually exist? - Article from Pravda.ru in English

This article is full of non-sense. There isn't any sort of scientific credibility in it. It's obviously - and very ridiculously - made up. I think this link should be removed because it provides false and irrelevant information regarding Centaurs. Haisook 17:09, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks go to the user who removed it. Haisook 13:01, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Narnia book order

I am changing this back to first novel. the Narnia books (as well as in the movie adaptation of its second novel, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe),

See the section on Reading order in The Chronicles of Narnia regarding this. (esp. the bottom of the section. The guy who first persuaded publishers to change the numbering of the books is co-producer of the movies. And they are being made in order of original publication...) VikÞor [[User talk:Vik-Thor|Talk]] 07:57, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unorthodox theories on Centaur page moved here

I have removed all of the following information from the article. --Theranos 19:55, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

A few small portions of this might be reasonable to reinclude: e.g. the stuffed Centaur is an amusing curiosity - from Pliny's Natural History or Phlegon's Book of Marvels, or some such? As for the rest, it is far to speculative and off-beat for a Wiki article. There is clearly also alot of confusion between the mythic Greek centaur and the Greek word "onocentaur" (= an African baboon). --Theranos 20:03, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

The section was a copyright violation from here and here and has been removed. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 00:30, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Different Picture Please!

I'm sorry, I love Mortal Kombat, I really do. But this should be an academic article about mythology, and for the first picture people see it should be something a little more conservative, like a classical painting or sculpture or something.

On top of that, the "centaurs" in Mortal Kombat have features that are not part of the traditional description, like the giant bull horns and the metal tail that shoots fireballs. Maybe include the picture in a section on centaurs in popular culture, but not as the basic image.

[edit] Content is inapropriate for a serious reference work

This article has a box with so-called "data" on centaurs, treating them as real creatures (I'm using the ordinary definition of "real" here). I think this is inappropriate: the box appears near the top of the article, and it does not label itself in a way that would indicate that the vast scientific and lay consensus of the present-day world is that centaurs are mythological/imaginary creatures.

Of course, the photo of the statue in the box is very informative, so it should stay, provided it's legal. S. Neuman 20:12, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photo is NOT of a Centuar

The photo of the archer is not a centuar, the creature has the body of a leopard. It's an Indian Myth...can't remember the name...anyway, not a centuar, so I'll be removing it. 209.193.50.217 22:14, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Portrayal

Centaurs are sometimes shown as wearing armour or other clothing, but in most modern images and films, male centaurs are shown wearing nothing. At a certain cultural level it's hard to distinguish a jokester from an earnest illiterate: we can thank User:82.7.42.34 for this assertion, perhaps from a remembered comic book. A lot of sensible text has eroded from this article, and some illustrations too. --Wetman 10:09, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] POV

As a centaur, I find portions of this article highly offensive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Grammaticus VII (talk • contribs) 09:47, 25 January 2008 (UTC)