It points down.
It points down.
The mouth is located on the lower surface (the bottom) of a jellyfish.
Medusa, which is her name, was a human, and born that way. It was the Goddess Athena that cursed her to look that way.
Medusa probably does not care one way or another.
medusoid (medusa)
A polyp is anchored to substrate, like a rock or piece of coral. Anemones are polyps. They catch food with their tentacles and have the mouth on the upside. A medusa is swimming freely. Jellyfish are medusa stages. They catch food with their trailing tentacles and have the mouth on the downside. You can view polyps as the settled ´plant´ and medusa as the free-floating ´seed´, like in a dandelion. Though they aren´t plants at all, of course.
Yes she did. She was jealous of Medusa for being almost as pretty as her. So she put a curse on Medusa so that she would have snakes on her head. That way, all the men would be afraid to look at Medusa, and so that they would pay more attention to Aphrodite.
Most likely, since Medusa and her sisters, the Gorgons, turned any one who came there way into stone.
Poseidon was Medusa's boyfriend and they were hanging out in Athena's temple. Then Athena turned Medusa into Medusa.
The Greek hero Perseus was the one who beheaded Medusa. He went to her island while she was asleep and moved her snakes of hair out of the way and then chopped her head off. Medusa was dead but he snakes weren't so he had to be careful when putting them in the bag.
She is way too ugly, for people to look at.
On an Abandoned Island, in a building half-way up a Cliff.