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One of the most widely accepted etymologies of Pegasus has it as a corruption of the Luwian (it was a region in Eastern Asia Minor) word pihassas which means "Lightning".

This fits into the mythology because after being born, Pegasus became sacred to Zeus, who used him to shuttle his thunderbolts from the forges of the Cyclopes to Olympus.

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