Quinotaur

Quinotaur (Lat. Quinotaurus) is a mythical sea creature mentioned in the 7th century Frankish . Referred to as "bestea Neptuni Quinotauri similis",Pseudo-Fredegar - Historia, in , Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum, Tomus II. Hannover: 1888. (the beast of Neptune which resembles a Quinotaur) it was held to have fathered by attacking the wife of the Frankish king Chlodio and thus to have sired the line of . The name translates from Latin as "bull with five horns", whose attributes have commonly been interpreted as the incorporated symbols of the sea god Neptune with his trident, and the horns of a mythical bull or Minotaur.
Compare also the Indo-Aryan '', "grandson/nephew of the water".
==See also==
* Ichthys
* Matsya flood myth
==References==
Category:Mythopedia