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MEDUSA (MYTHOLOGY)

In Greek mythology, Medusa ( ancient Protectors Gorgon, 'guardian', 'protective')[1] It was a monster female Chthonic , that turned into stone to those who looked at it securely in the eyes. She was beheaded by Perseus, who then used his head as a weapon[2] until they gave it to the goddess Athena so she put it on her shield, aegis. Since classical antiquity, the image ofthe head of Medusa is depicted in the gadget that pulls away the evil known as the Gorgoneion .

In classical mythology
The three sisters — Medusa, Stheno and Euryale— gorgons were daughters of Phorcys and Ceto, or sometimes of Typhon and Echidna, in both cases the archaic world Chthonic monsters. This genealogy is shared by her other sisters, the Graeae, as in Prometheus unbound by Aeschylus,who places both Trinities very far, in the "dreadful plain Cistene»:
Not far, the aligeras sisters
With snakes for hair; the gorgons
Enemy of man
Although the vase-painters and ancient Greek relief carvers imagined Medusa and her sisters as beings born with monstrous form, sculptors and painters of the 5th century began to imagine her as beautiful at the same time as terrifying. In an odewritten in the 490 BC Pindar already refers to the "beautiful-cheeked Medusa".[4] In a later version of the myth, narrated by the Roman poet Ovid,[5] Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden, 'the jealous aspiration of many suitors' and priestess of the Temple of Athena, but when it was breached by the "Lord of the sea" Poseidon in him, the enraged goddess transformed her beautiful hair into snakes.
Inmost versions of the story, Medusa was pregnant of Poseidon when she was beheaded while he slept by the hero Perseus, who had been sent to search for his head by King Polydectes of Serifos. With the help of Athena and Hermes, who gave him the winged sandals, the helmet of invisibility of Hades, a sword and a mirror shield, then go where were the Graeae you so tell him where the gorgons cave,Perseus fulfilled its mission. The hero killed Medusa approaching her without looking directly at her but observing through the shield to avoid be petrified. His hand was being guided by Athena and thus cut off his head. Neck sprang her offspring: the winged horse Pegasus and the giant Chrysaor.[6]
Jane Ellen Harrison argues that "its power only begins when your head is cut off, and that powerresides in the head;" "she is in a word a mask with a body later added... the basis of the Gorgoneion is a cultobject, a ritual mask misunderstood".[7] In the Odyssey, Homer does not mention specifically the Gorgon Medusa:
According to Ovid, Perseus went through the Northwest of Africa with the Titan Atlas, who was there holding heaven and transformed him into stone. Similarly, it was said that thecorals of the Red Sea had formed the blood of Medusa who splashed the seaweed when Perseus left the petrifying head beside the beach during his short stay in Ethiopia, where he saved and married the beautiful Princess Andromeda. Even said that poisonous snakes of the Sahara had sprouted droplets drops of his blood.[5] [9]
Perseus then flew to the island of his mother, where it was about to beforcibly married the King. He shouted "Mother, protect your eyes," and all but she were turned into stone by the sight of the Medusa's head.
Then gave the head to Athena, who placed it on her shield, aegis. According to some sources, the goddess gave the magical blood of Medusa the physician Asclepius, which flowed from the left side of the neck was a deadly poison, and on the right side had the powerto resurrect the dead.[10]
Although some classical references allude to the three gorgons, Harrison believes that the multiplication of Medusa in a trio of sisters was a secondary feature of the myth:
The triple form is not primitive, but simply an example of a general tendency... which makes each goddess a Trinity, which has given us the hours, the charites, the Erinyes , and a multitude of...