WHITE HORSES, which are rarer than other colors are often associated with the SUN CHARIOT, also with WARRIOR-HEROES, then with FERTILITY in both the mare and the stallion manifestations, or with an END-OF-TIME SAVIOUR.
Truly white horses and the more common grey horses, both with completely white hair coats, were identified as white. But the truly ones with power were the pure ones with the white manifestation from the inside out.
In some myths around the world, white horses are usually depicted as divinatory, or who prophecy or warn of danger. In others it is depicted as an inspiration of the spring season everywhere when a winged white horse struck his hoof to the earth.
The white horse and rider, first of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, have long puzzled people who study the Bible prophecy.
In Hindu mythology a seven-headed flying white horse is considered the best of horses and is described as a "vehicle of Indra, the god-king of heaven, but is also recorded that the king of demons, Bali, possess a white horse also.
Other myths considered that the different color of horses symbolizes the deities who rule the specific direction of space.
In the Chinese lore, four ancestral spirits are responsible for the four of the cardinal directions. These guardian spirits were associated with demarcation in general, as well as seasonal themes related to agriculture.
PEGASUS is one of the best known creatures in Greek mythology. He is a winged divine stallion depicted as pure white in color. He was a spirit that was sired by Poseidon in his role as a horse.
Pegasus was the symbol of wisdom and specially of fame. Later he became one symbol of the poetry
and the creation of sources in which poets obtained inspiration, particularly in the 19th century.
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