![]() ![]() Another will possess the ability to rob the racecourse of its true length such is his speed that he will seem to dissemble the movement of his feet and make the ground vanish before him. One man will cause his horse to wheel round in caracoles, and proudly mounted on its back he will wage war from on high horseman and soldier in one. It will bring forth people endowed with swiftness of movement and limbs alert to perform every task. Pegasus the winged Horse will appear and gallop aloft in the heavens. Pegasus then rose alone to his permanent place among the stars, becoming the Thundering Horse of Jove that carried the divine lightning… Brugsch mentions as in its location an Egyptian constellation, the Servant and some of its stars would seem to be shown on the Denderah planisphere as a Jackal. He was snowy white in color, and the favorite of the Muses, for he had caused to flow their fountain Pirene on Helicon,- or Hippocrene on the Acro Corinthus, - whence came one of the constellation titles, Fontis Musarum Inventor… Mythologically he was the son of Neptune and Medusa, sprung by his father’s command from the blood of the latter which dropped into the sea after her head had been severed by Perseus and he was named either from Pegai, the Springs of the Ocean, the place of his birth, or from Pegos, Strong. The stars of the Great Square in-closing the body of the Horse (the Great Square of Pegasus marked by the stars Alpheratz (alpha Andromeda), Scheat, Markab, and Algenib). Pegasus, like birds, angels, and most celestial winged creatures, is an allegory for the superior spiritual power that the hero first sought out to aid him in his task, and the Owl represents the wisdom side of that same power. In medieval times it was said to indicate vain individuals with a great deal of ambition, but with very poor judgment. The constellation portends events concerning ships and the ocean and also changes in the weather. Prevails against disease of horses and preserves horsemen in battle. The constellation gives ambition, vanity, intuition, enthusiasm, caprice, and bad judgment. Pegasus Constellation StarsĪccording to Ptolemy, the bright stars are like Mars and Mercury. It spans 40 degrees of the zodiac in the signs of Aries and Pisces and contains 16 named fixed stars. ![]() Pegasus constellation, the Winged Horse, is a northern constellation above Aquarius constellation and below Cygnus constellation, between Delphinius constellation and Andromeda constellation. ![]()
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