![]() Since she inhabited the sky as well as the sea, Medusa always had wings which were able to double as fins. ), a sacred symbol for water dating back to the Palaeolithic. These were always carefully drawn to make a pattern of meanders ( In semi-human form, her body was covered, not with reptilian scales as one might expect, but with fish scales. The navel of the world was once said to be Medusa herself in the form of a mountain. The Atlas Mountains were Medusa's first creations, so she was called 'mountain mother' like Cybele. The snakes standing erect over her forehead are often her favoured blue cobras, looking like the headdress later worn by Bast, or like dreadlocked hair. Her petrifying gaze was the contradictory Sun and the keen vision of the ship's pilot. Just as Athena would later, Medusa ruled the ocean, ships, and all the skills and arts dealing with them. Snakes are generally connected to the Sun in mythology obviously as in Egypt, or more subtly as the guardian of the solar apples of the Hesperides. Eventually these ideas coalesced in the Goddess Medusa, Queen of the Gorgons, at once beautiful and frightening.įirst and foremost, Medusa was a Sun Goddess and representative of women's genital mysteries. Otherwise, she wore an asp, the other sacred snake of Egyptian queens, on her forehead. The Egyptians derived the uraeus headdress from her, usually worn by their Cat Goddess Bast (Pasht), who was crowned with serpents themselves crowned with solar disks. The people of ancient Mesopotamia knew the gorgons too, except they called them lahamas, and they were kindly sea creatures reminiscent of mermaids. The picture dates from the 5th millennium BCE, and then the gorgon reappears independently in Southern Rumania roughly five hundred years later. Marija Gimbutas among the artifacts of people she called Old Europeans, because they preceded the Indo-Europeans in the area. The earliest known appearance of a female head with bulging eyes, lolling tongue, and wild hair was identified by Dr. Clarity begins in the distant past, wending its way through Mesopotamia and Egypt, before passing through pre-Mykenaean Krete and beyond. The most well known portrayals of them in stone, pottery, and paper do nothing but record the confusion. The organization of the Amazon tribes in North Africa, the devastating effect of invasions, and the aims of patriarchal elites have almost completely obscured the identity of the Gorgons and their Goddess Medusa. The name Medusa (Medhain Sanscrit, Metis in Greek and Maat in Egyptian) means "sovereign female wisdom." But when the necklace brings about popularity in the totally wrong way, things go from bad to worse.Historically, before ancient Greece, Medusa was worshipped by the Libyan Amazons as a Serpent -Goddess, and associated with the destroyer aspect Anath (also known as Athene) of the Triple Goddess in North Africa and Crete. So when she finds out about a necklace that promises just that, she's sure it will help her get the two things she covets most: to be as popular as the four Goddess Girls and to have her supercrush, Poseidon, finally notice her. Immortality, she thinks, will solve everything. Not only is she surrounded by beautiful, powerful, immortal classmates, but she also has snakes for hair and a reputation for being mean. In Medusa the Mean," Medusa is sick and tired of being the only mortal at Mount Olympus Academy. #MEDUSA GODDESS SERIES#Well researched and true to the original myths, each volume in the Goddess Girls series addresses contemporary issues, like friendships and relationships, from a classically accurate-and entertaining-perspective. Medusa is the ultimate mean girl in this series that blends modern drama with ancient myths. ![]()
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