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Who Was Medusa?

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    The word medusa has its origin in the Greek mythology where the word has been attributed to a female character that was monstrous. In some of the mythological descriptions she was considered as one of the three gorgon sisters who had goggling eyes, very sharp and protruding fangs and the hair of them was not of normal hair but of venomous snakes.
          
    Her form is always believed as monstrous but some sculptors and vase painters in the fifth century painted her as beautiful being, though she was still terrifying.
         
    In some of the myth she was known as a beautiful nymph and as she had committed the sin of having intercourse in the Athena temple, she faced the ire of the goddess and she had her hair turned into snakes and her face had become so terrible that the mere sight of it could turn anybody into stone.
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    Vicky 

    answered 3 years ago

      To correct that  Medusa  was a hand Madden to Aphrodite  who made the mistake of comparing her beauty to the goddesses in return, she was changed into  the snake creature  portrait  with snakes for hair  her look was said to turn  anyone who looked into her eyes to stone.
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      Dragonhalf 

      answered 3 years ago

        The word Medusa is related to many things however here are two statements regarding "Medusa".
        1. (Greek mythology) a woman transformed into a Gorgon by Athena; she was slain by Perseus.
        2. one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles.
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        Samione 

        answered 3 years ago

        She was poop
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        Guest 

        answered 7 months ago

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