yes Ceto is a god but hes not the god
The Greek monster Ceto was female. Ceto means "Goddess of the Sea" in Greece.
Medusa was the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto; a sea god and a sea goddess.
No. She was a daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, both of whom were a minor god/goddess of the sea.
Ceto goddess of the dangers of the sea/sea monsters. Eurybia goddess of the mastery of the seas. Both daughters of Pontus and Gaia.
Phorcy and Ceto raised her but Aphrodite is her reall mom. It was a major secret hardly anyone knew. Medusa was named Flower by Aphrodite but Ceto changed it to Medusa. Medusa never knew the secret not even as your reading this, she still dont know.
Ceto was a goddess who personified the dangers of the sea. She was more specifically a goddess of whales, large sharks, and sea-monsters - thus the "who" is a "what".Ceto was the mother of a number of sea-associated monsters in Greek myth, specificaly, the Phorcydes. They were; the Gorgons, The Graeae, Echidna and Ladon.Interestingly, Ceto (Keto in Greek) and Cetus (Ketos in Greek) both come from the same root. Cetus was a word used to describe a massive fish (or most likely a whale) and both Perseus and Heracles were said to have killed a Cetus (not a Krakon). The word used to describe the whale family on zoology is "cetacean".
Hercules did not create Medusa. Medusa was the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, and she was turned into a gorgon by the goddess Athena.
Ceto and Phorkys: or Ceto and Gorgo.
Yes, her mother was Ceto. Her father was Phorcys.
Medusa was the child of Phorcys and Ceto, who in turn were the children of Gaia and Oceanus.
Medusa is the daughter of immortal god-monsters Phorkys, who presided over the hidden dangers of the sea and Ceto who was the goddess of the seas monsters/dangers.
Given her parents are Ceto and Phorcys, or Ceto and Gorgo, sea deities, and her name means "of the wide briny sea (step?)" she most likely remained a sea goddess of the dangers of the sea. She, along with her two sisters, one of which was Medusa and the other being Euryales, had the ability to turn to stone those who made eye contact with them.