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Philyra

The mother of the Centaur, Kheiron (Chiron).

Rheia (Rhea) caught Kronos when he was with Philyra and, to escape detection, Kronos took the guise of a horse and thus Kheiron was conceived as a Centaur, i.e. half-horse/half-man.

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