Who are centaurs? Detailed answer

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Who are centaurs?

Imagine that you live hundreds of years ago and have never seen a single horse. Suddenly you catch your eye on a rider, as if rooted to his steed, who easily jumps over ditches and hedges or gallops across the plain. It is quite possible that it occurred to you that a man and a horse are a single creature! So did some Indians when they first saw the Spanish riders.

In ancient times, in the mountains of Thessaly in Greece, there lived people who hunted on horseback with wild bulls. They were such excellent riders that the inhabitants of the surrounding regions began to sincerely believe that their neighbors were strange creatures, half-humans, half-horses. Hence the myth of the centaurs. Centaurs in Greek mythology were just such "man-horses" who lived in the mountains of Thessaly and Arcadia. They led a free and wild life, so the great ancient Greek poet Homer called them "wild beasts". Amazing, exciting adventures have always happened to the characters of Greek myths, and centaurs in this sense were no exception.

One of the stories tells about King Pirithoy. The king was celebrating his wedding with a girl named Deidamia. In the middle of the feast, the drunken centaur Eurytion tried to kidnap the bride. As a result, a battle began between the soldiers of the king and the Icentaurs, in which the latter were defeated.

It should be noted that in Greek myths, centaurs most often behaved in this way. In later times, statues and paintings depicted centaurs harnessed to the chariot of Dionysus - the god of wine - or carrying Eros - the god of love.

Author: Likum A.

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What does the body do with food?

This question can be answered that the body "digests" food. But what is it? Our digestive system does two basic things with the food we eat.

First, it breaks down large food molecules so they can be carried around the body. Large molecules cannot penetrate cells and tissues. Starch must be broken down into sugars and proteins into amino acids before they can penetrate cell membranes.

The second task of the digestive system is to convert "foreign" food molecules into body molecules. Do not forget that we absorb a wide variety of food molecules: milk, meat, coffee, potatoes, fish, and so on. By swallowing a piece of chicken, we cannot replace any part of the body with the protein contained in this chicken.

The human body is made up of human protein molecules, which are usually arranged in a specific order. Therefore, the body must decompose the molecules of oil, flour, fish, fruits and other products into elements. Human proteins, fats and starches must be composed of these elements.

The digestion process is very complex. It begins already in the mouth, where saliva decomposes starches. The process then continues in the stomach, where most of this process takes place. Here, gastric juices are mixed with food. Food, already in the form of a liquid, enters the small intestine. Here, the decomposition of proteins is completed, fats are broken down into smaller components and the assimilation of starch ends.

When digested substances spread along the walls of the small intestine, they are absorbed by the blood and lymph. Thus, nutrition reaches all the cells of the body.

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