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Centaur in a Can
$85
Dimensions:
Approximately 7.5 inches tall when standing. Pint size can. |
This is a digitally sculpted, 3D printed and highly articulated Centaur skeleton. In a can! The model consists of 38 parts, with 35 points of articulation, for a wide and realistic variety of poses. It stands approximately 7.5 inches tall when fully assembled in a standing pose. Each model also comes with assembly instructions, if you're in a rush to get it together. The model includes 2 sets of hands, in open and closed poses.
This model is made to order and may take up to 4 weeks to ship, although we will do our best to ship it as soon as possible.
This model consists of mainly small parts and is not intended for small children.
A centaur or hippocentaur is a mythological creature with the head, arms, and torso of a human and the body and legs of a horse. In early Attic and Beotian vase-paintings, 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.
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.
The centaurs were usually said to have been born of Ixion and Nephele (the cloud made in the image of Hera). Another version, however, makes them children of a certain Centaurus, who mated with the Magnesian mares. This Centaurus was either himself the son of Ixion and Nephele (inserting an additional generation) or of Apollo and Stilbe, daughter of the river god Peneus. In the later version of the story his twin brother was Lapithes, ancestor of the Lapiths, thus making the two warring peoples cousins.
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. They continued to feature in literary forms of Roman mythology. A pair of them draw the chariot of Constantine the Great and his family in the Great Cameo of Constantine, which embodies wholly pagan imagery.