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legends speak of bells at the bottom of lakes, and others rang in the sea, Bellerophon. The Greeks understood this name to mean the “Slayer of Belleros.” [More probably it is Bel-arphu “the flaming sun” (see Bel and Orpheus)—Ep.] He was a mythical prince of Corinth, son of Glaukos and Euramedé, or an incarnation of Poseidon, and a solar hero. He slew his brother Belleros, and fled to Argos, whence he fled again because Anteia, queen of King Proitos, required him, like others, to worship her as a deity. After many troubles he was aided by Pegasos the winged horse (some say by Hippia a “ horse ” gode ) to ascend to heaven, and to slay the Khimaira dragon. [This sun-horse is found in Babylonia, and at Carthage—on coins—as well as among Greeks and Romans: it appears even on a Hittite seal and, as Kalki, among Hindus—Ep.]