The simultaneous and apparently independent development in several ancient cultures of a myth of creatures who were half human and half horse parallels the increased use of horses in these cultures. But despite the nobility and gentleness traditionally ascribed to the horse, the mythical half-horse, half-humans were frequently portrayed as violent and savage. Many human cultures use myth to express unconscious thoughts, so these mythical creatures obviously reflect people' s unconscious fear of the horse. The reasoning in the argument is flawed because the argument ["fails to show that the mythical creature mentioned represents the horse in people's minds", 'fails to explain why people use myth for the expression of unconscious thoughts', 'confuses the expression of unconscious thoughts with the suppression of them', 'fails to demonstrate that the myth was not borrowed from one of the cultures by the others']