Spyke

In your picture the Minotaur has hooves.

Wikipedia:

a mythical creature portrayed during classical antiquity with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man

You either have to accept (by your definition) a Hoove or by wikipedia at least a Tail. Shown in many wiki pictures.

(Judged by the second picture, apparently also a very tiny dick)

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lolcatnipreply
reddthat.com

I think it's worth noting that Pegasus and Cerberus are proper names of individual creatures, not species.

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Don't think so, which is probably why they are sometimes used as common nouns even though they're technically proper nouns.

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lemmy.world

So the top half of a minotaur is human, according to you?

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Xatixreply
lemmy.world

Sorry, mixed up centaurs and minotaurs. Still gonna leave the fishman here because its nice.

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lemmy.world

Oh you might look like 'just a guy', but your preternatural skill with mazes and singing voice that leads people to risk their lives to hear better would be a dead giveaway that you were not so ordinary.

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The Minotaur was more about being effective at killing people in a maze. If he was good at mazes, he probably would have left.

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lemmy.world

I would say the image OP meant a centaur and not a minotaur. But then the other way around would be a hippocampus!

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mander.xyz

No they're saying the human half of a minotaur (from the waist down) and the human half of a merfolk (from the waist up).

Centaurs don't have horse heads, so they can't make a water horse.

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lemmy.world

The issue is that the bottom half of a minotaur is just the hind quarters of a bull. But you are right that centaurs miss the horse head too

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The Minotaur just had a bull's head, and sometimes a tail. Everything else was human. We usually imagine the shoulders as broad and bull-like too but the Greeks just went with bull's head (and sometimes tail, but just the tail, like when anime furries make cat girls. Yes I said it)

https://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/theseus-minotaur.jpg

https://avradio.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/wpcontent/uploads/import/2018_04_18_performance_the_minotaur_and_the_labyrinth_satyamayi_english_2.jpg

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sh.itjust.works

You'd be a guy who's hung like a bull and has fabulous hair, I guess that would be all right.

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Fish and bulls*.

The horse one is Centaur, and that has the same human half as mermaids. Maybe it would be able to make a being with the torso of a man, front legs of a horse and a mermaid tail sticking out the back.

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sopuli.xyz

And your sibling got the other halves and you spent hours a day explaining to strangers that you are related

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And being the fully human one you'd probably be considered the weirdo. You'd look angrily at your sibling and think "what a load of bullfish!"

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feddit.de

The only human part of a minotaur is the arms/torso, right? He still will have hooves and a tail.

EDIT: Wikipedia:

with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man

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Like many people in this thread, you're thinking of a centaur.

Edit: I stand corrected. It seems a Minotaur is not a simple top-half/bottom-half split. It's more like the body and arms of a human, with the head, tail, and feet of a bull.

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No, I do not. Did you google-image centaur and minotaur? Because the results are clear there. What is it you think coming out of his ass?

Wikipedia says:

a mythical creature portrayed during classical antiquity with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man

Or use google-images. Judged by these pictures 95% even have hooves.

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Doh haha I knew that, dunno why I was thinking of centaurs at that moment. Question still stands though

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lemmy.one

Biology fact - fish can reproduce externally. Female lays the unfertilised eggs and male fish squeezes milt (spermes) on top.

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Right. The image is about a minotaur, though, and the OP said the "other way around" is just a seahorse. The other way around would basically be a fish with a bull's head and human arms. Not very seahorse-like.

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what if one day you wanna be trans, what would you wanna turn into?

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