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Welcome to Pegasus Place

Enya

We realize it's a little funny floating to get to our home, but you get used to it. :)

I suppose you came up to find out about us. I love to tell our story.

We were created by Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea and of dreams. But we were "tamed" by Athena, the goddess of wisdom. We were never really tame but she was nice enough to us. And then she presented us to Muses, the nine patronesses of poetry, art and science. We're very picky about who we let ride on our backs. You must be a hero or a true poet: for only they have both great visions and the power to understand them and make them come true.

The first one to ride our kind was Bellerophon, who was sent by King of Lycia to slay a monster called the Chimera. This beast breathed fire and had three heads: one like a lion, one like a goat and one like a snake. She lived in the mountains of Lycia and descended each day to the plain to devour people and cattle. No one like this monster much. Anyway before he set out to destroy this creature Bellerophon prayed to Athena for help. The goddess appeared to him in a dream and gave him a golden bridle, which he had when he woke up. Bellerophon searched for our kind, he found one of us drinking from a spring when he came up from behind and put the golden bridle on and was able to get on the Pegasus back. The brave Pegasus carried him up over the mountains to the cave of the Chimera. When she saw them, the Chimera roared like a lion, lashed her serpent's tail and breathed out smoke and flames, but the Pegasus rose and escaped from the Chimera, then plunged back down swiftly as the wind so that his rider might pierce the Chimera to the heart with his spear. Bellerophon and the Pegasus destroyed the Chimera, saved the Lycian people and married the daughter of their king.

But Bellerophon went one to other adventures or so they say. But he also wanted to meet the gods on top of the Mountain. Bellerophon knew that the Pegasus could fly to great heights. With the Golden Bridle still in his possesion her soared up higher then he had ever been, but the Gods had their rules, Bellerophon could never come and meet them so high in the air Bellerophon fell off the Pegasus and out of sight. Some of our kind went to meet the gods, and now have a very good life retreiving stray lighting bolts for Zeus.

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