Medusa
Beings - Greek mythology
Card 026
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- Water = 00
- Earth = 30
- Heaven = 00
Attack and Defense
- Wisdom = 10
- Dexterity and Strength = 30
- Powers = 40
- Fire = 00
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Medusa
Beings - Greek mythology
Medusa (Greek: Μέδουσα, Médousa, "guardian", "protector"), in Greek mythology, was a female chthonic monster, one of the three Gorgons. Daughter of Forcis and Keto (although the ancient author Higino interpolates a generation and cites another chthonic couple as the parents of Medusa), whoever looks directly at her was turned into stone. Unlike his Gorgonian sisters, Esteno and Euríale, Medusa was mortal; was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who later used his head as a weapon, until he gave it to the goddess Athena, who put it on her shield. In Classical Antiquity the image of the head of the Medusa appeared in the object used to frighten the evil known as gorgonião.
Story
The three Gorgonian sisters - Medusa, Esteno and Euríale, daughters of the ancients - were marine deities, Forcis (Phorkys) and their sister, Keto, chthonic monsters of an archaic world. His genealogy is shared with another group of sisters, the Greyhounds, as explained in Aeschylus' Prometheus Incarnate, which places both triads of sisters in a distant place, "the terrible plain of Cistene":
While ancient Greek artists painted vases and engraving reliefs, imagining Medusa and her sisters as having been born with a monstrous form, the 5th century BC sculptors and painters came to view it as being beautiful and at the same time terrifying. In an ode written in 490 BC, Pindar was already speaking of the "Medusa of beautiful cheeks".
"Near them were his three ugly sisters, the Gorgons, winged
With snakes in the place of hair - they hated mortal man - "
In a later version of the Medusa myth, reported by the Roman poet Ovid, Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden, "the jealous aspiration of many suitors," priestess of the temple of Athena. One day she was raped by "Lord of the Seas," Poseidon, in the very temple of the goddess Athena; the goddess then, enraged, transformed the beautiful hair of the maiden into serpents, and left her face so horrible to behold that the mere sight of him would turn everyone who looked at him into stone. In Ovid's version, Perseus describes the punishment given by Athena to Medusa as "just" and "deserved."
Death
In most versions of the myth, while Medusa was expecting a son of Poseidon, god of the seas, he would have been beheaded by the hero Perseus (half-god), who had received from King Polidetes of Serif the mission of bringing his head as a gift. With the aid of Athena, of Hermes, who furnished him with winged sandals, and of Hades, who gave him a helmet of invisibility, a sword and a mirrored shield, the hero fulfilled his mission, killing the Gorgon after looking only for its harmless reflection in the shield, thus avoiding being turned into stone. When Perseus detached the Medusa's head from its neck, two creatures were born: the winged horse Pegasus and the golden giant Crisaor.
According to British scholar Jane Ellen Harrison, "power (of Medusa) only begins when its head is cut off, and that power is in the head; it is, in other words, a mask with a body added after it ... the gorgonian base is an object of worship, an ill-understood ritual mask. "
In Odyssey Homer does not mention Medusa specifically by name:
"Unless by my daring Persephone, the dreadful,
From Hades send a dreadful head from a horrible monster. "
Yet to Harrison, "the Gorgon was born of terror, not the terror of the Gorgon."
According to Ovid, in North-West Africa, Perseus would have flown by the Titan Atlas, who held heaven on his shoulders, and turned him into stone. The corals of the Red Sea would have been formed by Medusa's blood, poured out on seaweed when Perseus laid his head on a stretch of the coast, during his brief stay in Ethiopia, where he saved and married Princess Andromeda. The poisonous vipers infesting the Sahara were also cited as being born of drops shed from their blood.
Perseus then flew to Seriphus, where his mother was about to be forced to marry King Polidetes, who was turned to stone by looking at Medusa's head. Perseus then gave the Gorgon's head to Athena, who put it on her shield, the Aegis.
Some classic references refer to the three Gorgons; Harrison considered that the dismemberment of Medusa in a trio of sisters would be a secondary aspect of the myth:
"The triple form is not primitive, it is only an example of a general tendency ... which makes each goddess a trinity, which gave us the Hours, the Graces, the Semnas, and several other triads. Gorgons are not really three, but a + two. The two sisters who were not killed are mere existing appendages, the true Gorgon is the Medusa. "
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