<Tr> <Th> Region </Th> <Td> Greece, Cyprus </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Habitat </Th> <Td> Land </Td> </Tr> <P> A centaur (/ ˈsɛntɔːr /; Greek: Κένταυρος, Kéntauros, Latin: centaurus), or occasionally hippocentaur, is a mythological creature with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a horse . </P> <P> 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 . </P>

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