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Medusa
In the Greek Mythologies, Medusa was a monster described to having a hideous face with living venomous snakes in place of hair. She's the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto and the mother of Pegasus and Chrysaor. She was beheaded by the hero Perseus who used her head as a weapon afterwards until he gave it to the goddess Athena in place of her shield.
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Who are Stheno Euryale and Medusa in Greek Mythology?
Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa were the three Gorgon sisters in Greek mythology. Medusa was famously decapitated by the hero Perseus.
Medusa was probably pretty jaded, since she started out as a venerated fertility/earth/mother goddess, but with the invasion of the patriarchal Dorians in roughly the 13th century BC, many of these earth goddess cults--which may have been prominent in societies in which women had more importance--were replaced with rites pertaining to either gods or to orderly, obedient, virginal goddesses like Athena and Artemis. So Medusa probably doesn't believe in those deities, since they took her place, and while she (as a former goddess) might not be a jaded atheist, she likely comes close.
What is Medusa's real full name?
My theroy is that Medusa's full name is Medusa Gorgon..But of course she might have many other names..She is on of the three GORGON sisters.
Athena didn't kill Medusa. Perseus is the hero who did that. Athena only turned Meduas into a monster.
Medusa was the high priestess of Athena. She was beautiful and was desired by many men. One day Poseidon, god of the sea and earthquakes, took Medusa into Athena's temple and raped her. Athena was furious for being a priest of Athena you had to keep your maidenhood like the goddess. So to make sure this didn't happen again, Athena turned Medusa into a gorgon with snakes for hair and eyes that turn people to stone.
Medusa doesn't mean anything she is a woman who has snakes as hair and is said to curse any one who looks into her eyes by turning them into stone.
Medusa's name in Greek means guardian or protectress. But when someone calls another person a medusa, that is an insult similar to calling someone an evil person.
Another answer
Robert Graves, in the Greek Myths, gives the etymology of Medusa to mean cunning.
Medusa grows live snakes from her head, not hair. So, she doesn't cut her "hair".
According to Greek Mythology, looking upon the face of Medusa turns the observer to
stone.
What color is Medusa's hair color?
According to the pictures of the sites that talk about Greek mythology, said that she had long red hair.
Medusa's hair was turned into snakes when the goddess Athena cursed her.
In mainstream Greek mythology, the only offspring of Medusa were Pegasus (a male winged horse) and Chrysaor (a male giant with a golden sword).
Theory 1
Medusa was a beatiful mortal that poseidon fell in love with. Her sisters helped her and Poseidon sneak into Athena's temple to make out . When Athena found out, she went into a rage. Not beingable to punish Poseidon, she punished Medusa and her sisters by making them absolutely hideous for the rest of eternity.
theory 2
Medusa asked Athena for something and she wouldn't give it to her. So Medusa said she was prettier than Athena. Athena knew that the mortal needed punishment, and she soon found out that Medusa had to gorgon half sisters, so she made Medusa a gorgon as well.
What are the characters in Medusa's Head?
Poseidon
Nereus
Apollo
Zeus
Hermes
Athene
King Acrisios
Polydectes
Cepheus
Cassiopeia
There are more characters, but I don't remember exactly what their names are. :)
