Star lore of all ages; a collection of myths, legends, and facts concerning the constellations of the Northern Hemisphere (1911)
Olcott, William Tyler, 1873-1936 · New York, London : G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 56
forthe presence of Pegasus in the myth. Brown* thinks that in this legend of Andromeda andPerseus we have but another version of the all-pervadingsolar myth, Perseus may be Bar-Sav, the solar Herakles,and Andromeda his bride Schachar (the morning red). The Hindus have almost the same story in their… … Oh Andromeda, the Chained Lady 23 ings of Antarmada chained to a rock with a fish besideher. Sappho, the Greek poetess of the 7th century B.C., re-fers to Andromeda, and Euripides and Sophocles bothwrote dramas about her,—but there is Httle doubt, as Allenstates, that the constellation originated…
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