![]() As a Priestess of one of the Greek Goddesses, Medusa made a vow to never to lay eyes on a Handsome Man for she remain herself a Virgin for the Goddess that she served. One day, a Mortal Woman by her name, "Medusa" who was born to a Mortal Family with her own Sisters (Stheno and Euryale) decided to take a Job as a Priestess to the Goddess Athena at her own Temple in Athens. Poseidon and Athena have always been close Frenemies, even after the Challenge when Athens was given to Athena, Poseidon felt like that more people were worshipping Athena than Poseidon which made him extra jealous. Poseidon mainly sexually assaulted Medusa in Athena's Temple as that's how Athena's Former Priestess became to be but I decided to turn this Medusa Myth into a much more clean version without the horrible disgusting r*pe in this version of Mine for My Interpretations of Poseidon's Backstories from the Original Mythology in my Headcanon, so here's a little friendly version of mine of the Medusa Myth. Medusa served herself as a Priestess for The Goddess, Athena until Poseidon (who couldn't stand his Rival because He and Athena always hated each other since the Challenge for Athens) used Medusa to seduced her as Athena cursed Medusa into a Gorgon, for only then People would look at her as she would turn them into Stone by her Deadly Eyes. For those who don't know, in Greek Mythology, Medusa was actually a Mortal Woman, born by the Sea Monster Gods, Phorycs and Ceto. The Idea of One of The Big Three using Animals for Skin Care is Worse but do you know on what's actually way Worse? Taking advantage of Someone in an Act of Revenge based on Another Person that You Hate.Īs Hades never really had a lot of Lovers in his Life, his Brothers were the Ones who had the Most Popular Affairs and the Medusa Myth is one of Poseidon's Most Popular Myths. Cixous’ argument is a powerful call for women to speak out and ‘break out of the snare of silence’.Medusa was never really a Villain from the Start, She was actually a Victim of One of The Three Brothers. In 1975 the influential theorist Hélène Cixous published ‘The Laugh of Medusa’, a feminist reading of the myth in which the beheading of Medusa is seen as a violent act of misogyny, a silencing of the original femme fatale because her female gaze undermined male virility and authority. In its original state, the metope would have been brightly coloured, a striking image. Already present in Medusa’s arms is the winged horse, Pegasus (sired by Poseidon), born from the blood that will soon gush from her neck. Perseus is shown in the act of decapitating Medusa, with Athena (on the left) guiding his sword with her hands. We become active participants in Medusa’s killing, taking on the role of Athena’s polished shield, into which Perseus sees the reflected image of Medusa, rendering it harmless. Although largely Archaic in style, with the bodies and limbs of Perseus and Medusa shown in profile, and with Egyptian-style braided hair and exophthalmic eyes, all three figures look out, engaging the viewer. The sculptor of this metope provides us with a synoptic narrative, in which a sequence of events is compressed into a single image. Medusa was also given the terrifying power to turn to stone any man who looked directly at her. However, after Medusa fell in love with Zeus’ brother, Poseidon, Athena wrought vengeance by turning her into a hideous Gorgon, or monster, with green skin, venomous snakes for hair and an awful grimace, baring boars’ teeth. Medusa was a beautiful, celibate priestess to the warrior god, Athena, daughter of Zeus. Although Medusa is first mentioned in Greek literature in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, it is the fuller narrative, as told in Hesiod’s Theogony, that is portrayed in this limestone metope – a rectangular space that fits between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze – from a Greek temple at Selinous in Sicily, dated to c.560-540 BC. The Greek myth of Perseus decapitating Medusa is probably over 3,000 years old.
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