Equestrian Playing Card Jokers: Horses!

Playing cards have long featured horses.  Here's my collection of them.  

 

 

 

What to look at next? More animals?

1. Animal Jokers - Ensemble Animal combinations (cats AND dogs)
   
1. Cats  or  Dogs 
2. Flyers: The Birds and the Bees, Butterflies  & Dragons 
3. Horses , zebras, donkeys, giraffes ...
1. Fantasy horses: centaurs, unicorns, pegasus
   
4. Monkeys, bears, and others with paws 
5. Animals with antlers, horns, and tusks
6. Reptiles, amphibians, sea creatures 
   

Centaurs, Unicorns, and Pegasus: The Fantasy Horses

 Many jokers feature the fantasy horses such as centaurs, unicorns, and flying horses.    There are 23 of these fantasy beasts in my joker collection so far.

Focusing for a moment on flying horses, the terms for winged or flying horses includes:
Pegasus: While originally the name of a specific immortal white stallion in Greek mythology, "pegasus" is widely used as a generic common noun for any winged equine.
Pterippus: The literal ancient Greek term for a winged horse (pter meaning wing, ippus meaning horse).

Horses can apparently have wings on their back or on each hoof. There is a myth of a superhorse, who like Superman and Supergirly, flies without wings.

Flying horse myths come from many cultures and corners of the globe. Note:

Tulpar: A mythical winged or flying horse in Turkic and Central Asian mythology.
Chollima: A legendary winged horse originating from East Asian mythology.
Lungta, or Wind Horse: In Tibetan Buddhism,  a flying horse, often winged, which carried prayers from humans to the heavens

There are also flying horse myths from Turkey, India (Hindu), Iran, and Ethiopia.

Below is the total collection of mythological horses.  

  I consider DRAGONS to be a different category since they are of the genus of birds and I do not seem them a closely related to centaurs, unicorns, or flying horses. I do see where someone could argue that they have some common elements. BTW, I do understand the difference between dragons (they have six limbs: four legs and two wings) and wyverns or drakes which have only two hand legs plus wings.

Animal Jokers - Ensemble Animal combinations (cats AND dogs)

Animals: Flyers - Bee Boy

1. Cats  or  Dogs 
2. Flyers: The Birds and the Bees, Butterflies  & Dragons 
3. Horses , zebras, donkeys, giraffes ...
1. Fantasy horses: centaurs, unicorns, pegasus
   
4. Monkeys, bears, and others with paws 
5. Animals with antlers, horns, and tusks
6. Reptiles, amphibians, sea creatures 
   

Animal Jokers: Combinations of Different Animals - Ensembles

 I have joker sections for horses, dogs, cats, even the big cats and fantasy animals, and so on and so on.  

But there are decks that have animal jokers which are combinations. Like a cat and a dog. Or a rat and a walrus.  When I organize jokers, the pairs from a deck have to stay together. So what to do with these diverse combinations? The answer is this section: Animal Combinations.   

The top left and right ones below are two of a set of six, Deutrans Coeur Germany 1982.

1. Animal Jokers -
1. Ensemble Animal combinations (cats AND dogs)



Animals: Flyers - Bee Boy

1. Cats  or  Dogs . Now there's a big cat subsection! 
2. Flyers:  Birds, Owls, Bees,  Butterflies  & Dragons 
3. Horses , zebras, donkeys, giraffes ...
1. Fantasy horses: centaurs, unicorns, pegasus
   
4. Monkeys, bears, and others with paws 
5. Animals with antlers, horns, and tusks
6. Varmints - the annoying small wild animals
7. Reptiles, amphibians, sea creatures  
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