Who was maduca?

Answer 1

a snake headed goddess from greek mythology. Who was not sexy. And who ever wrote that; THAT WAS VERY INAPPROPRIATE! Some people on here actually want a good answer. And Maduca was the daughter of Ceto and the sister of Phorcys. She was said to have once been a beautiful maiden, famous for Her lovely hair, who was turned to a hideous monster by the goddess Athena. Snakes then replaced Her beautiful tresses, and Her gaze was so terrible it would turn men to stone. The hero Perseus killed Her on a dare, decapitating Her and making off with Her head, which he gave to Athene. Thereafter She wore it on Her aegis, or breastplate that symbolized the storm clouds.

There are many different representations of Medusa, some ugly, some not, and not all showing Her with Her famous snaky hair. Often She has wings, either large bronze ones sprouting from Her back, or a small pair on Her forehead. Sometimes She is shown as an ugly woman, burly and muscular, with large fangs.

Medusa's legends are very tangled with those of Athene, and Medusa may originally have been Her sexual and destructive aspect. Some legends say Medusa was given Her fearsome aspect by Athene as punishment for winning a beauty contest against Her; or that the punishment was given because the Sea-god Poseidon had sex with Medusa in Athene's temple. Poseidon was sometimes said to have been Athene's father, from whom She got Her blue eyes, and They were long rivals, as can be seen in Their competition for patronage of Athens.

It is said that Perseus was guided by Athene's hand as he killed Medusa, or even that Athene Herself slew Medusa as She slept. When Medusa's blood fell to the earth, the hero Chrysaor and the winged horse Pegasus were born, for Medusa had been pregnant from Her encounter with Poseidon. Her blood was then taken by Athene who gave it to Asclepius, or in some stories, Erichthonius (half-serpent, half-human who was claimed as ancestor by the early Athenians; the Erechtheum, a temple shared by Athene and Poseidon on the Akropolis, is named for Erechtheus, his adopted grandson), who used it to kill or cure.

In these legends, Medusa shares many symbols with Athene and with Poseidon. Athene, as a sky-goddess, is associated with birds, especially the wise owl; and She also is linked to the chthonic serpent, as seen in links to Erechtheus and Erichthonius (who were often confused) and in the snakes that fringe Her aegis. An epithet of Athena, Sthenia, meaning "strong", shares its root meaning with the name of one of Medusa's Gorgon sisters, Stheno. Likewise Poseidon was said to have seduced Medusa in the guise of either a bird or a horse, and Medusa's parents were both Sea-deities