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<p>[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 2745845, member: 83845"]Your clues strongly lead me to suspect the Thessalonian myth of Kaineus/Caeneus. In the myth Poseidon abducts a girl named Caenis and she falls in love with him. He grants her any wish she wants and she asks to receive a mans body so Poseidon grants her a male body with impenetrable skin.</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]627788[/ATTACH] </p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>Poseidon and Caenis</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i><br /></i></p><p>Caenis then changes his name to Caeneus and later gets into a fight with a centaur. The centaur is enraged because he is unable to harm Caeneus due to his impenetrable skin and so the centaurs gang up on Caeneus and crush him into the earth under a mountain of tree trunks and stones.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]627792[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><i>Caeneus being crushed by centaurs</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I have not yet been able to find a coin depicting this myth though. Does anyone know if one exists?</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=87186]@LaCointessa[/USER] , am I close or way off the mark?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 2745845, member: 83845"]Your clues strongly lead me to suspect the Thessalonian myth of Kaineus/Caeneus. In the myth Poseidon abducts a girl named Caenis and she falls in love with him. He grants her any wish she wants and she asks to receive a mans body so Poseidon grants her a male body with impenetrable skin. [CENTER][ATTACH=full]627788[/ATTACH] [I]Poseidon and Caenis [/I][/CENTER] Caenis then changes his name to Caeneus and later gets into a fight with a centaur. The centaur is enraged because he is unable to harm Caeneus due to his impenetrable skin and so the centaurs gang up on Caeneus and crush him into the earth under a mountain of tree trunks and stones. [ATTACH=full]627792[/ATTACH] [CENTER][I]Caeneus being crushed by centaurs[/I][/CENTER] I have not yet been able to find a coin depicting this myth though. Does anyone know if one exists? [USER=87186]@LaCointessa[/USER] , am I close or way off the mark?[/QUOTE]
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