Pegasus

The winged horse of the ancient greek Mythology. Son of Poseidon and Medusa.

Inspiration of poets and painters. Poetic Inspiration has often been symbolised as a horse, flying from the earthly surface away towards heavens. I have a book with an image of Pegasus of Phrygian origins but now in a museum of the island of Samos. It is a bas-relief that shows the horse in a still standing position. (Perhaps it waits for the poet to jump on the back and gallop together away). It is a position, which we are not very familiar with. But it makes me reflect even more intensively about the meaning of the archetyp. It does even more than that: it urges my creative energy to set this creature on the go, to energise its wings and make it fly.

Years ago I had painted a Pegasus in a surreal composition, inspired by the epic poem of Odysseus Elites, for which he got a Nobel Prize. I exhibited in Vienna and now the work is in a private collection.

Perhaps my ove for this creature is also related to my horoscope. Sagittarious, I know, is another fable-creature, the Centaur, half man, half animal and a very wise teacher.

Pegasus born from Poseidon and Medusa!

The waves of Macro-Cosmos, and the waves of the Micro-Cosmos; the serpentine paths of our human brain (symbolised by the snakes among the hair of Medusa) and those of the Universal Sea, the kingdom of Poseidon, came together, ahve been synchronised and the result of this union is the galloping phantasy, the creative poetic work of Man and Woman! 

Let us look at the etymology as well: Peg- is the part refering to Pege=the Source in Greek.

The rest of the name perhaps means the One.

So, Pegasus is the one that comes from the source and for our ispiration he brings us back to the Source of all things ....