Winged Spears

The Ethiopian Air Force in the 1935 War of Abyssinia in the context of cancel culture, censorship and false beliefs. By Alberto Alpozzi, photo-reporter. The PEGASOS AITHIOPIKOS, in the 1350 illustration above, was a breed of winged, horned horse native to Aithiopia (Ethiopia) in sub-Saharan Africa. They descended from Pegasus, the celebrated horse of Greek myth, who was himself said to have been born on the shores of the Red Sea near Aithiopia. The ancients, in this case the Roman Pliny the Elder in the 1st century, had no problem believing that in Ethiopia there lived such creature. `Today, there recurs another Ethiopian mythical figure, perpetuated by false historians with a political agenda: that of the Ethiopian warrior, armed only with a spear and a shield, who immolated himself to defend his land against a technologically preponderant European invader. R ega...