{{contact.first_name}} Was Medusa Ugly? or maybe the Olympians were lying?

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Why write about Medusa? Why write about a villain being a hero?

Why write about Hades being more of a grey god, swayed toward good or evil?

The Greek mythology of Medusa says that she is a monster and one of three gorgon sisters.

Depicted often as ugly with terrifying wings, and snakes for hair. Once a beautiful maiden loved by Poseidon, cursed by Athena to be forever hunted by men for offending her.

Most noteable of the myth is that she is killed by Perseus when he cuts off her head, and it is used as Athena's shield in battle.

What isn't discussed as often is that her name means "Guardian" and why is it that the gorgons are called her sisters, when they were born as gorgons, and Medusa was "made" one?

If Medusa was "made" to be a gorgon, then technically the gorgons are NOT her sisters at all, but simply of the same species. And if she was so hideous that it turned men to stone with just a gaze, then there would be no myth of what she looked like at all, would there? As the accounts of her ugliness could not be described by men directly, but merely a shared account from other gods that men have shared the story of.

And on top of that, it was men sent after Medusa by the will of gods to test them, that she was hunted. How does that make her a monster? Perhaps all the stone decorations in her cave are simply her defending herself from people who tried to behead her? Maybe she was never ugly at all? Maybe the stories are told by the ones in power, and Medusa is a god like the rest of them, just different.

I couldn't get it out of my head that maybe Medusa was never "turned" into a gorgon at all, and she always was one. Maybe she wasn't as "mortal" as the myths talked about, and the story in my head of what might have actually happened from her perspective formed.

Monsters were simply gods from a different lineage and were being hunted by the Olympians. Who are the heroes now? Read Taking Medusa and find out!

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Until next time!

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Stevie

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