It was regarded as a contempt of the gods for a rich man to bring a mean offering, but from a poor man the smallest oblation was considered acceptable. […] According to the ancient fable, the Centaurs were part man and part horse. […] She had six heads, each of which took a man out of every ship that passed. […] He is the same as the Greek Minos, and the name is derived from the same root with the words, mind and man; man being so called as the measurer, or thinker. […] Aske* and Embla*, the first man and woman, were then formed, the man of an ash-tree and the woman of an alder.