Pegasus

PEGASUS

In Greek mythology, Pegasus was a winged horse. There are many versions of birth for Pegasus. One of the version is that they sprang from the blood issuing from Medusa’s neck.

Pegasus is a sacred animal. It has a rider that ride it. His name is Bellerophon.
Bellerophon found Pegasus when Pegasus was drinking at the Pierian spring. And then Pegasus approached him and allowed him to ride. Bellerophon use Pegasus to fight against Chiimeras and Pegasus. But when Bellerophon tried to see gods, Zeus sent down a gadfly to sting Pegasus and then Bellerophon fall. After that Pegasus taken by Zeus and lived in Olympus. It was tamed by Zeus and given task to carried Zeus’s thunderbolts.

Because of his faithful service to Zeus, he was honoredwith trandformation into a constellation. On the day of its catasterism, when Zeus transformed its into canstellation, a single feather fell into earth near Tarsus.