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Pegasus (Ancient Greek: Πήγασος, romanized: Pḗgasos; Latin: Pegasus, Pegasos) is a winged horse in Greek mythology, usually depicted as a white stallion. He was sired by Poseidon , in his role as horse-god, and foaled by the Gorgon Medusa .
A winged unicorn (cerapter, flying unicorn, unisus, or unipeg [1]) is a fictional ungulate, typically portrayed as a horse, with wings like a pegasus and the horn of a unicorn. [2] In some literature and media, it has been referred to as an alicorn , a word derived from the Italian word alicorno [ 3 ] (itself from Latin wing āla and horn ...
Pegasus and their family are winged horses. Peter Pegasus appears in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Zeus is the king of the gods and the god of the sky. He attacks the bacchanal with lightning bolts before going back to sleep. Vulcan is the blacksmith of the gods, who creates Zeus' thunderbolts. The Unicorns are horse-like creatures and friends of ...
Bat – An Egyptian goddess with the horns and ears of a cow. Cernunnos – An ancient Gaulish/Celtic God with the antlers of a deer. Fairy – A humanoid with insect-like wings. Hathor – An Egyptian goddess with cow horns. Horned God – A god with horns. Jackalope – A jackrabbit with the horns of a whitetail deer.
The animal is always in profile on Indus seals, but the theory that it represents animals with two horns, one hiding the other, is disproved by a (much smaller) number of small terracotta unicorns, probably toys, and the profile depictions of bulls, where both horns are clearly shown. It is thought that the unicorn was the symbol of a powerful ...
Luna's Pegasus guards first appeared in the season 2 episode "Luna Eclipsed", chauffeuring her flying carriage to Ponyville. They have a dark gray coat, black tails, tufts of hair on the tips of their ears, bat-like wings, and cat-like slit pupils. Their armor is purple, and it has a webbed crest over the helm.
Bellerophon riding Pegasus and slaying the Chimera, central medallion of a Gallo-Roman mosaic from Autun, 2nd century AD, Musée Rolin. When Bellerophon arrived in Lycia to face the ferocious Chimera, he could not harm the monster even while riding Pegasus. But when he felt the Chimera's hot breath, he was struck with an idea.
Translation by J. Bostock and H.T. Riley: "Æthiopia produces (...) horses with wings, and armed with horns, which are called pegasi;" Unless a source for that "pterippus" can be procured, I suggest removing it and simply calling Pegasus a winged horse like every other encyclopedia.--2A02:A31C:823F:8380:E0D2:F96C:D859:9374 18:02, 10 May 2019 (UTC)