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See also: PEGASE
In the Greek Mythology, PEGASE (in Greek old Πήγασος / Pếgasos , in Latin Pegasus ) is a winged Cheval.
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According to the majority of the legends (reported in the Théogonie of Hésiode), it spouts out with Chrysaor blood of the gorgone Méduse when this one is made slice the head by Persée - from where its other name of Medusæus , used for example in the Metamorphoses of Ovide. According to other traditions, Poséidon was the father of both.
After its birth, PEGASE leaves at once the ground to join the gods. It carries the thunder and the flashes of Zeus. It is captured by the hero Bellérophon (or is given to him by Athéna), who manages to control it and makes use of it then like mounting in its combat against the Chimère. But when Bellérophon, seized of pride, wanted to go up on the Olympe with him, Zeus sent a giant horsefly to prick the horse. Under the blow of the pain, PEGASE désarçonna its rider which committed suicide in its fall, and the horse only went up in the sky, changed into Constellation.
Its name comes from the Greek πηγή / pêgế , “the source”: PEGASE is supposed to have made spout out, by striking of its shoe the mount Hélicon, remains Muses, the source Hippocrène, where the poets water themselves. It made spout out another source in the same way close to Trézène. It is the symbol of the Poésie - from where the Greek expression “enfourcher PEGASE” “to have inspiration”.
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