2006-09-07 02:28:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Medusa was a woman who had snakes for hair and the ability to turn people into stone that looked in her eyes
2006-09-07 02:33:59 · answer #1 · answered by glass_city_hustla 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Medusa was a terrible monster who had laid waste to the country. She was once a beautiful maiden whose hair was her chief glory, but as she dared to vie in beauty with Athena, the goddess deprived her of her charms and changed her beautiful ringlets into hissing serpents. She became a cruel monster of so frightening an aspect that no living thing could behold her without being turned into stone. All around the cavern where she dwelt might be seen the stony figures of men and animals which had chanced to catch a glimpse of her and had been petrified with the sight. Perseus, favored by Athena and Hermes, the former of whom lent him her shield and the latter his winged shoes, approached Medusa while she slept, and taking care not to look directly at her, but guided by her image reflected in the bright shield which he bore, he cut off her head and gave it to Athena, who fixed it in the middle of her Aegis.
2006-09-07 02:35:20 · answer #2 · answered by big 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know that Medusa supposedly lived in ancient Greece and that she was very beautiful. So beautiful in fact that she made the mistake of saying that she was more beautiful than one of the goddesses. This did not sit well with those above and this goddess took her looks away making her so hideous that no man could look upon her without turning to stone. Think of that the next time you take Gods name in vain. Harsh!
2006-09-07 02:34:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
One of the Gorgons, and the only one who was mortal. Her gaze could turn whoever she looked upon to stone. There is a particular myth in which Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden. She desecrated Athena's temple by lying there with Poseidon. Outraged, Athena turned Medusa's hair into living snakes.
Medusa was killed by the hero Perseus with the help of Athena and Hermes. He killed her by cutting of her head and gave it to Athena, who placed it in the center of her Aegis, which she wore over her breastplate.
From Medusa's dead body the giant Chrysaor and the winged horse Pegasus, her son by Poseidon, sprang forth.
2006-09-07 02:36:08 · answer #4 · answered by Zsoka 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Woman with snakes for hair. I believe she came from Virgil's Aeneid. She may have been known by the Greeks before.
2006-09-07 02:37:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the snake hair lady?
you turn to stone if you look at her eyes, some guy chopped her head off
2006-09-07 02:34:31 · answer #6 · answered by ♣ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that she has snakes in her head and anyone who looked at her turned into stone.
2006-09-07 04:06:32 · answer #7 · answered by daisy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pretty hot looking lady ... She wrestled in WCW for awhile, now she drives a monster truck
2006-09-07 03:00:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
`that her hair is make of snakes and when men look at her they turn to stones and she is one of 3 sisters . good enough for ya.
2006-09-07 02:43:46 · answer #9 · answered by medusar 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
She was our mother.
Thanks from Argentina.
2006-09-07 02:36:19 · answer #10 · answered by xantamir 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋