Minotaur is not a species

The Minotaur was named that because he was the son of King Minos. Anyone with a bull head has to be named after their dad, like the Kyletaur or something.

actually he was named for his mother’s husband as a way of making fun of him, his dad was just a regular bull. so anyone else with a bull head has to be named after their mother’s husband, who is not their dad

Your dad isn’t always the bull that impregnated your mother. Sometimes, your real dad is the man who raised you and had a labyrinth built to imprison you.

you got me there

“Pegasus” is also an individual creature’s name, not  a species. 

So every winged horse should be named after either the place where it was born, or the job it does. 

Since I’m a Minnesotan pharmacy tech, my winged horse name would be Midicaeta, which historians could variously interpret as a corruption of either the place name “Minnesota” or the job title “medicator.”

Minotaur is not a species

The Minotaur was named that because he was the son of King Minos. Anyone with a bull head has to be named after their dad, like the Kyletaur or something.

actually he was named for his mother’s husband as a way of making fun of him, his dad was just a regular bull. so anyone else with a bull head has to be named after their mother’s husband, who is not their dad

Your dad isn’t always the bull that impregnated your mother. Sometimes, your real dad is the man who raised you and had a labyrinth built to imprison you.

you got me there

“Pegasus” is also an individual creature’s name, not  a species. 

So every winged horse should be named after either the place where it was born, or the job it does for a god. (Which is good because it avoids the dilemma of how to pluralize “pegasus.”)

So, since I’m a Minnesotan pharmacy tech, my winged horse name would be Midicaeta, which historians could variously interpret as a corruption of either the place name "Minnesota" or the job title "medicator."