The date of this particular legend concerning the hoof of Pegasus I should be inclined to place at about 3000 B.C., when the solstitial colure was so closely marked by “those impressions of the feet” of the “swift horse sprung from the gods.” For the first imagining of the constellation I think that of 4000 B.C. is more probable (see [Plate XXIV., Figs. 1], [2]).
PLATE XV.
FIG. 2.
Constellations above Southern Horizon.
Invisible—Noon, Winter Solstice.
Visible—Midnight, Summer Solstice.
5,744 B.C. Lat. 45° N.
5,744 B.C. Lat. 45° N.
Constellations above Northern Horizon.
Invisible—Noon, Winter Solstice.
Visible—Midnight, Summer Solstice.
FIG. 1.