Talk:Bucephalus

message: Info in box currently says "Height	Black with a white star"  - obviously that should be "Markings" instead of "Height," but I don't know how to edit the box in the lead of the article.  Also note that this coloring (as described in the beginning of "The taming of Bucephalus" section and accompanying image "Alexander taming Bucephalus") does not match the depiction "portrayed in the Alexander Mosaic" in the "Alexander and Bucephalus" section.
--Apegrrl (talk) 13:04, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Not bullshit at all. See this. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.200.79.243 (talk) 00:26, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

text: Buciphalas:  It is reported that the word Buciphala is derived from the Greek words ‘Bous’ which means ox and Kephale’ which means ‘head’.This interpretation does not seem to be satisfactory as the head of the great horse does not resemble the head of an ox in any of its pictures.  But the derivation of this word from Sanskrit appears to be more appropriate. The word is closer to the two Sanskrit words – Puchchi and Phala. Puchichi which is also called Bu:chi means ‘one which has a tail’- a bird. Busi also appears to be closer to the Sanskrit word ‘ Pakshi’ ,  one which has wings-a bird. The word Phala means ‘forehead ‘ in Sanskrit. It looks as though the forehead of the horse was covered with the mask of a bird such as an  an eagle, so that when the horse jumped upon his foes it looked like an eagle pouncing on its prey. Actually in his first encounter with the horse Alexander noticed that the horse was getting uncontrollable because of shadows and the surrounding crowd. Perhaps he later used to cover the forehead of the horse with a leather bag which looked like the head of an eagle, thereby preventing it from seeing in any direction except straight ahead and also causing confusion among the enemy horses. Perhaps with a bird- like head, upright mane and with a tail raised upwards it must have caused panic among the other horses. 
“Alexander knew that horses as prey animal often feared shadows. So he lead him by the reins in all directions letting the horse see the movement of the sun and  shadows , making it feel that there was nothing to fear in this strange field surrounded by strangers."I
The word puchi in Tamil language and bUchi  in Telugu language means an insect which can fly. There is an ancient nursery song in Telugu in which a mother tries to make her baby stop crying, by  calling out for the ‘buchi-man’ ( perhaps a  fellow who used to jump over walls and roof tops by attaching wings and a long tail to his body  and kidnap little children.  The song goes like this-“O, Buchi man come here, weave a basket and take this child away in your basket”. In Hindi language’ Panchi’ means a bird. According to Wikipedia Buciphala Changula is a species of a sea- duck which is also called as the Golden eye.The word Puchi occurs in the name of the country Compuchia also.The Sanskrit connection is more plausible because Aristotle  the learned teacher of Alexander was greatly influenced by Sanskrit Philosophy and Sanskrit literature and Alexander himself was the son of a Naga woman whose racial origins are in the Eastern Himalayas. 
Ref.I.  WWW.Pathos.org-The legend of BuciPhalus                                  banda krishna satyanarayana  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Banda.krishna (talk • contribs) 07:02, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: "The only other person to ride Bucephalus after Alexander tamed him was his best friend." -- I.e., Hephaestion? -- 201.50.251.197 15:14, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is false, only Alexander rode Bucephalus. It didn't let any other man ride him, so I've erased that sentence. --Bucephala 20:28, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alexander's best friend ( = Hephaestion?) 

message: I've seen depictions of Bucephalus with a horn (like a unicorn) and/or a tail like a peacock. There is a legend that Bucephalus fought his cousins, the wild unicorns, along with Alexander. ...At least that's what I've read, and I read some of this in The Enchanted World: Magical Beasts by TIme Life Books. Is there any truth to these legends? Should they be included? 24.14.198.8 18:04, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Alternate description

message: Bucephalus is referenced in Herman Melville's Billy Budd. There is a Cultural References section, but is this worthy of mention? I understand that if every reference is included, that section will get long. 97.125.50.92 (talk) 07:11, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: True enough; but if you characterize the use Melville makes of his reference to Bucephalus, then it won't be trivial. Does it add to the reader's understanding of Bucephalus? --Wetman (talk) 14:30, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  References in literature 

message: What does it mean that the town of Phalia and or the region of Mandi Bahauddin are named after the horse Bucephalus?  76.87.81.33 (talk) 01:45, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It means that the modern form of the name "Phalia" is believed by some to originate from "Bucephalus". Whether or not this is really the case would require demonstration of intermediate forms over history. {The poster formerly knopn as 87.81.230.195} 90.200.79.243 (talk) 00:32, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  reference to "named after" 

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message: The "in popular culture" and related sections are getting ridiculously long.  Can we just remove them per WP:TRIVIA?  Montanabw(talk) 23:24, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we kill the trivia section? 

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thread_title: Assessment comment

message: Shouldn't the name be in Greek? Is this some sort of FYROM prank?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.145.132.29 (talk) 07:46, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is "Bucephalus" spelled in Cyrillic letters at the beginning? 

message: Father Brown of the public TV series of the same name, rode a bicycle named Bucephalus. 96.82.150.137 (talk) 19:56, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Namesakes of Bucephalus