Secret of Pegasus. Sacral image of Winged Horse in the past and present of history cultures

The article is devoted to the image of a winged horse in the context of the history of Western European culture. The focus is on the experience of addressing the history of the Greek constellation map and the question of its genesis. The article states that the creators of the earliest composition images of the night sky map recorded in it the morphology of the image one the most common rituals of the Bronze Age, the mythological basis of which includes early cosmological motifs. The basis of the constellations structure was formed in the pre-writing period of history. Initially, “heavenly images”, representing the most important cultural codes, were canonized – they served as a part for ancient cults.