![]() Thinking that her own curse had been somehow lifted, Medusa looked at herself in the mirror turning herself to stone. Grey unknowingly released Medusa from her prison, but she failed to turn to stone. Grey bought the cursed European castle with Medusa imprisoned inside. ![]() He won an art competition by using one of Medusa's victims as an art piece. Some time later Medusa moved to Paris, France with her husband, a blind Greek man. With Medusa's death, Jason and all her prior victims reverted back to flesh. ![]() Hercules and the Argonauts ended up slaying her once again. On the island he encountered Medusa, alive and well, concealing her face behind a hood. Generations later King Kreon of Pylos sent Hercules to retrieve the gold of Medusa from the Isle of Fear. Medusa's daughter, who took her mother's name, became the ruler of the city. Medusa-LandĪfter Medusa's death, her daughter relocated to the subterranean world below Olympia: Medusa-Land. It was wielded by Hercules as part of his post-invulnerability armament. The Shield of Perseus was then imbued with Medusa's power, turning those who look in its eyes to stone. Using his shield's reflective surface, Perseus beheaded Medusa and subsequently used her head as a weapon. Perseusĭuring the 14th century BC, Perseus located the Gorgons' hermitage in the wilderness surrounded by the petrified victims. All their descendants bore the same curse, creating the snake-haired Gorgons. Enraged, she transformed the Gorgon sisters into scaly hags with snakes for hair. Įventually, Medusa laid with Poseidon on Athena's very altar. Ī chaste priestess of Athena, Medusa Gorgon lived on the remote isle in the shadow of Atlas, Atlantis. The Gorgon sisters did not worship their grandfather Set, but instead the Olympian gods, and all three of them served as priestess of Athena. The Gorgon women, beautiful deities, were among the most beautiful in the world, and Medusa was the comeliest. Medusa ("queen") Gorgon, alongside her Gorgon sisters Euryale ("wide-stepper") and Stheno ("strength"), was the primeval sea god/ demon Phorcys (the spawn of Set) and the sea monstress Cetus.
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