The Legend of Pegasus

Of all the mythological creature that exist I like the Pegasus the most. I find it to be the most interesting creature and certainly the coolest of them all. Nowadays when we say the word Pegasus we think of any winged horse in general. This being because the creature has gone from being a single character in a story to hundreds of them fighting battles with armored knights riding upon them. The truth however, is that Pegasus was in fact a single winged horse in Greek mythology that bore the name. It is the history of this person that we will be looking at in this article.

According to Greek mythology Pegasus was the son of the god Poseidon and the Gorgon Medusa. Though there are different stories as to how Pegasus was actually born the two most common and accepted theories is that he came out of Medusa's neck when she was beheaded. The other, which seems to be the more acceptable one because it actually includes Poseidon is that Pegasus was born from the Earth through the mixing of Medusa's blood with the foam of the sea. This includes Poseidon because for anyone who has seen a movie where a god comes out of the water with a big trident will most likely know that Poseidon is the god of the sea. That is why mixing with Medusa's blood with the sea foam could make him the father. Now, how Medusa's blood could give birth to a winged horse is beyond me, but that's why it is mythology and not fact.

During his life Pegasus was involved in many different things, for example he helped Perseus fight against the Chimera and Amazons. He was also a carrier of Zeus lightning bolts often times. The story of Pegasus is long and very interesting, it's full of mythology and legends, there are so many exciting things about this winged horses life. What I certainly find interesting about him is that even though he was born of a god he was not immortal. Though according to the mythology despite that fact because of his service toward Zeus, rather than die he was turned into the constellation that anyone can see today. So, although he was not immortal he in a sense was given immortality through the stars.