Pegassus

Pegasso
Pegasus (Greek Πήγασος / Pegasos, Pegasus America) is one of the best known such fantastic mythological creatures in Greek mythology. He is a divine winged horse,usually white. He was the son of Poseidon, in his role as horse-god, and birthed by the Gorgon Medusa. [1] He was the brother of Chrysaor, was born in a single birth, when hermother was beheaded by Perseus. Greco-Roman poets write about his ascension to heaven after his birth and his obedience to Zeus, king of the gods, who instructed him tolightning and thunder from Olympus. Friend of the Muses, Pegasus is the creator of Hippocrene, the fountain on Mt. Helicon. He was captured by the Greek hero Bellerophon, near thesource Peirene with the help of Athena and Poseidon. Pegasus mount allows the hero to defeat a monster, the Chimera, before realizing many other feats. His rider, however, fallsoff his back trying to reach the mount Olympus. Zeus transformed him into the constellation Pegasus and put it in the sky.
Hypotheses have been proposed in terms of itsrelationship with the Muses, the goddess Athena, Poseidon, Zeus, Apollo, and the hero Perseus.
Pegasus symbolism varies over time. Symbol of wisdom and, above all the fame of theMiddle Ages to the Renaissance, became a symbol of poetry and the creator of sources that inspired poets to come, particularly in the 19th century. Pegasus is the subject ofa very rich iconography, especially through the ancient Greek ceramics and paintings and sculptures of the Renaissance. Personification of water, solar myth, or shamanassembly, Carl Jung and his followers have seen a profound esoteric symbolic Pegasus in connection with the spiritual energy that allows access to the realm of the gods on Olympus.