Alright,
is everyone comfortable in their chair? Did anyone want a blanket? It
has started to get a bit nippy! Now, is everyone ready to listen to
Granny's first magical horse story!?!
How
many of you guys have heard of Pegasus
before? Really!! What have you heard about Pegasus? The first story
that I will
be telling you children is about a magical, winged horse- it’s
Pegasus!! Pegasus
has a white, shiny, extremely soft coat. Pegasus is very special; you
see, he
can fly
higher than an airplane. Actually, he can fly higher than a spaceship!
He can fly all the way to heaven. Before Pegasus makes the flight to
heaven, a Greek hero named Bellerophon
comes
into Pegasus’s life.
Since
Bellerophon is not strong enough to
tame Pegasus, he has to ask Athena for her help. Athena is a goddess of
wisdom, peace, warfare and much more! Athena is able to
convince
Pegasus to allow Bellerophon onto his back. Bellerophon takes a golden
bridle
and halters Pegasus. Bellerophon climbs onto Pegasus and off they
go
together. Pegasus carries Bellerophon most swiftly with his wings, and
together
they fly without a care everywhere over the earth. Together
Pegasus and Bellerophon defeat a
scary monster! Let me tell you about that super scary monster!
But,
first I have to tell you about Proteus.
Proteus
is
a god who can change himself into different people and things! Proteus
has now found out
that Bellerophon is able to ride on Pegasus, so he tells him to go to
the
father of a young lady. Pegasus and Bellerophon are going there to
defend the young lady’s life against the scary monster, Chimera.
Chimera
is a
fire-breathing, three-formed creature. The Chimera’s form is a
vicious lion in the front, and from the back Chimera is a sneaky snake,
and in the middle Chimera is a
she-goat.
Chimera has
been up to no good and has been burning the land with fire-breath.
Once
Pegasus and Bellerophon arrive to do battle with the vicious Chimera,
they
see all
the damage that Chimera has caused. Pegasus and Bellerophon are
victorious
over the Chimera with Bellerophon’s bow and arrows.
Now,
Bellerophon
has the bright idea to get Pegasus to fly into heaven. Bellerophon has
kind of
become full of himself after conquering the Chimera. Bellerophon
wants
Pegasus to take him to see Zeus. Zeus is
the King of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the
sky and thunder.
Zeus gets to live in heaven!
Pegasus and Bellerophon are now on their
way up to the heavens, but the gods decide they do not want
Bellerophon to
make it
to the heavens. All of a sudden, the gods make Pegasus buck!
Bellerophon is
not
expecting Pegasus to buck, so it catches him off guard. Bellerophon
falls
off and
drops all the way down to the Earth. Unfortunately, once he hits the
ground, he dies.
Pegasus,
however does not stop when Bellerophon falls off; he continues to fly
up
to
heaven. Once Pegasus reaches heaven, he lives in the stables of the
