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==Horses in Mythology==
The close relationship between humans and horses has led to the fact that in the mythology of many peoples there are numerous horse figures to which great importance is attached.

Greek mythology, in particular, is rich in horses and horse-like beings:

the centaur is a hybrid of human and horse, with a horse's body and a human head. There were numerous centaurs, most of them unkind beings; however, the two most famous centaurs, Pholos and Cheiron, were friendly and intelligent representatives of their race.
Pegasus was a winged, semi-divine horse who aided Bellerophon in numerous heroic acts, including killing the chimera.
Bucephalus was the legendary horse of Alexander the Great. Numerous mythical properties were ascribed to it, but it is very likely to go back to a really existing horse.
The Trojan horse was a wooden horse inside which the Greeks hid to get into Troy.
The myth of the legendary unicorn, a horse with goat hooves, a lion's tail, and a horn on its forehead, probably originated in India. Unicorns did not appear in Greek mythology, but they did appear in scientific descriptions by Aristotle and Pliny.

In Norse mythology, there is Sleipnir, the eight-legged horse of the god Odin, as well as the horses Arvak and Alsvid, who pulled the sun's chariot across the sky.