Pegasos
the flying horse!
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Pegasos
(Greek
Πήγασος/Pegasos,
Latin Pegasus) was one of the best known mythological creatures in
Greek mythology. He was a winged divine horse, usually white in
color. He was sired by Poseidon, in his role as horse-god, and lived
by the Gorgon Medusa. He was the brother of
Chrysaor, born like a twin
when his mother was decapitated by the Greek hero Perseus.
Michaud's
Biographie universelle
relates that when
Pegasos
was born, he flew to where
thunder and lightning is released,
Then, according to certain
versions of the myth, Athena tamed him and gave him to Perseus. In
fact Pegasos most known story is when Perseus was riding him and
flew to
Ethiopia
to help his beloved
Andromeda!
Greek
pottery, paintings and sculptures of the Renaissance see in
Pegasos
the
personification of the water, the solar myth, and like Carl Jung
have seen in Pegasus a profound symbolic esoteric in relation to the
spiritual energy that allows to access to the realm of the gods on
Mount Olympus.
There are
several versions about the birth of the winged stallion
Pegasos
and his brother
Chrysaor,
in the far distant place
at the edge of Earth, Hesiod's "springs of Oceanus, which encircles
the inhabited earth, where Perseus found Medusa: In this
version, when Perseus beheaded Medusa,
Pegasos
and
Chrysaor
were born of the
Earth, fed by the Gorgon's blood!
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