Greek Gods, Porus(Poros)

12:57 am 04/28/11

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Porus(or Poros) was the spirit of expediency, the means of accomplishing or providing, contrivance and device. His opposite number was Aporia.In the cosmogony of Alcman Porosand Thetis were the first-born gods of creation. Here Poros is the same as Khronos.Plato, Symposium 178 :

“On the birthday of Aphrodite there is a feast on the gods, where the god Poros , that is the son of Metis (Wisdom), was one of the guests. İf your feast was over, Penia, because manner is on such occasions, came about the doors to beg. Now Poros who was the worse for nectar , went into the garden of Zeus and fell right heavy sleep, and Penia considering her own straitened circumstances, plotted to have a child by him, and accordingly she lay down at his side and conceived Eros , who partly while he is naturally an exponent on the beautiful, and because Aphrodite is herself beautiful, and also because he was born on her behalf birthday, is her follower and attendant. So that as his parentage is, so also are his fortunes. In the initial place he is always poor, and not tender and fair, because the many imagine him; and he is rough and squalid, and it has no shoes, nor a home to dwell in; on the bare earth exposed he lies under the open heaven, in-the streets, or at the doors of houses, taking his rest; and like his mother he’s always in distress. Like his father too, whom he also partly resembles, he’s always plotting against the fair and good; he’s bold, enterprising, strong, a extremely hunter, often weaving some intrigue or another, keen while in the quest for wisdom, imaginatif in resources; a négocier constantly, terrible as an enchanter, sorcerer, sophist.”

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Pegasus (Pegasos), Greek Myth

12:24 am 04/23/11
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PEGASOS (or Pegasus) was an immortal, winged horse which sprang forth from the neck of Medousa when she was beheaded by the hero Perseus. Pegasos was tamed by Bellerophon, a Korinthian hero, who rode him into battle against the fire-breathing Khimaira. Later, after the hero attempted to fly to heaven, the gods caused the horse to buck, throwing him back down to earth. Pegasos continued to wing its way to heaven where it took a place in the stables of Zeus.

The horse was also placed amongst the stars as a constellation, whose rising marked the arrival of the warmer weather of spring and seasonal rainstorms. As such he was often named thunderbolt-bearer of Zeus. In the constellation myths, Pegasos (“Springing Forth”) may have represented the blooming of spring whilst Khimaira (“Frosty Air” ?) (perhaps winter-rising Capricorn) was the cold chill of winter.

—- In Greek mythology, Pegasus is the winged horse that was fathered by Poseidon with Medusa. When her head was cut of by the Greek hero Perseus, the horse sprang forth from her pregnant body. His galloping created the well Hippocrene on the Helicon (a mountain in Boeotia).

When the horse was drinking from the well Pirene on the Acrocotinth, Bellerophon’s fortress, the Corinthian hero was able to capture the horse by using a golden bridle, a gift from Athena. The gods then gave him Pegasus for killing the monster Chimera but when he attempted to mount the horse it threw him off and rose to the heavens, where it became a constellation (north of the ecliptic).

In another version, Bellerophon killed the Chimera while riding on Pegasus, and when he later attempted to ride to the summit of Mount Olympus, Zeus sent a gadfly to sting the horse, and it threw Bellerophon off its back.

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Hypotheses have been proposed regarding its relationship with the Muses, the gods Athena, Poseidon, Zeus, Apollo, and the hero Perseus.

The symbolism of Pegasus varies with time. Symbol of wisdom and especially of fame from the Middle Ages until the Renaissance, he became one symbol of the poetry and the creator of sources in which the poets come to draw inspiration, particularly in the 19th century. Pegasus is the subject of a very rich iconography, especially through the ancient Greek pottery and paintings and sculptures of the Renaissance. Personification of the water, solar myth, or shaman mount, Carl Jung and his followers have seen in Pegasus a profound symbolic esoteric in relation to the spiritual energy that allows to access to the realm of the gods on Mount Olympus.

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