Talk:Ichthyocentaur

Pisces

Wasn't Pisces Aphrodite and Eros?Firio (talk) 16:58, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Your myth is in Hyginus Poeticon astronomicon, but Hyginus Fabulae has the legend of the fishes carrying Aphrodite's egg.

However, I added the egg version to Pisces (constellation), and deleted it from Ichthyocentaur where it doesn't belong.

The inference that Hygnius's fishes were Ichthyocentaurs belongs to theoi.com[1], and web-published theories aren't admissible.--Kiyoweap (talk) 13:37, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Syrian deities Dagon and Astarte

I also removed the Dagon-Astarte statement added here by JohnAlbertRigali.
This is derivative of Theoi Project's hypothesis about "Fish-Deities of Syrian mythology which carried Ashtarte ashore after her birth", and not WP:RS sourced.

John does makes a plausible surmise that the "Fish-Deities" in this context refers to the Syrian merman-god Dagon.
However the "Dagon" entry merely associates the god with Astarte-Atargatis, not with her birth, says nothing about him being an Ichthyocentaur.
So this is just side-footnoting added and not a source to back the whole statement.

Also the generic connection of mermen with Dagon and Atargatis is not novel at all, and given by Waugh (1960, JSTOR 1258382).[2] -- modified, Kiyoweap (talk) 02:07, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 17 November 2024

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) JJP_Master (she/they) 04:24, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

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Ichthyocentaurs → Ichthyocentaur – WP:PLURAL Orchastrattor (talk) 19:32, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Support per nom. Kolano123 (talk) 21:15, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Support. We have representations of individual Ichthyocentaurs, and a number of modern sources use the singular form, so WP:PLURAL applies. Also, reference works such as Brill's New Pauly and the RE use the singular form as the title of their articles (although I do note that Grimal uses the plural). – Michael Aurel (talk) 06:04, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

• Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 14:40, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Theparties (talk) 11:00, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

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