John McHugh | The Celestial Square IKU: Identifying Pegasus as Eden, the Ark, & Al-Qu'ran
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The Myth of Pegasus
Pegasus first shows up in Hesiod about 700 BC. He's he springs forth from the severed head of Medusa. And then Pegasus flew away and left the earth and came to the deathless gods, which means Pegasus flew up into the sky. It's as if Hesiod also realizes that Pegasus is a constellation as he's writing in about 700BC. This is very likely. If Hesiod is relying on the themes in Anumuilish, it presupposes that he has some astronomical information at his fingertips. That is Mesopotamian. So somehow, more than half of the Mesopotamia constellations show up in the Greek world. Nobody knows how
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