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Answer 1

'In Greek mythology, Medusa (Greek: Μέδουσα, Médousa, "guardian, protectress", was a monstrous chthonic female character, essentially an extension of an apotropaic mask, gazing upon whom could turn onlookers to stone. Secondarily, Medusa was tripled into a trio of sisters, the Gorgons. Medusa was also known to have snakes on her head.
Some classical references multiply Medusa into three Gorgon sisters: Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale, monsters with goggling eyes, sharp protruding fangs and lolling tongues, brass hands, and hair of living, venomous snakes. The Gorgons were children of Phorcys and Ceto, or sometimes, Typhon and Echidna, in each case chthonic monsters from an archaic world."
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Answer 2

Medusa
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In Greek mythology, Medusa (Greek: Μέδουσα, Médousa, "guardian, protectress"[1]), was a monstrous chthonic female character, essentially an extension of an apotropaic mask, gazing upon whom could turn onlookers to stone. Secondarily, Medusa was tripled into a trio of sisters, the Gorgons.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa

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Answer 3

Medusa, Queen of the Gorgons, was once a beautiful nymph. There are some varied stories as to how she was turned int oa gorgon. An article on wikipedia says that Athena did it after Medusa had an affair with Poseidon, but another story says that it was Aphrodite (goddess of love and beauty) because she was jealous of Medusa's good looks. Either way, the gorgon now had snakes for hair and turned anyone who looked at her directly in the eye to stone.

It was Perseus who killed Medusa, hacking off her head hile she slept. Another story says that he had Hades' magical helmet that turned him invisible, and Athena'a mirror like shield. He snuck up on her and had her look directly into the mirro, turning her into stone. In the first story he gave the head to Athena who put it on her shield (it's magical effects would still work, but as Athena was a goddess they would not affect her).

There are lots of different stories, so I guess it's up to you to decide which you want to use.

Answer 4

In Greek mythology, Medusa (Greek: Μέδουσα, Médousa, "guardian, protectress"[1]), was a monstrous chthonic female character, essentially an extension of an apotropaic mask... continue to the link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa

Answer 5

1.Appearance: Usually only her head is shown, a broad round face sometimes showing tusks, with hair made of writhing snakes.

2. Symbol or Attribute: Her gaze which can turn observers into stone, and the hair-snakes.

3.Strengths: Can stop anything in its tracks.

4.Weaknesses: Her severed head will turn anything into stone, including those who see it by accident.

5.Birthplace: Not known.

6.Family: One of a trio of Gorgon sisters, Medusa was the only one who was not immortal. The other two sisters were Stheno and Euryale. Gaia is sometimes said to be the mother of Medusa.

7.Spouse: Generally considered unmarried, though she did lie with Poseidon, and one account of her myth indicates the hero Perseus was her husband as well as her slayer.

8.Children: Pegasus, the winged horse, was said to have sprung from her severed head, along with Chrsaor, the hero of the golden sword

9.Some Major Temple Sites: In modern times, her carved image adorns a rock off the coast of the popular Red Beach outside of Matala, Crete

10.Basic Story: The hero Perseus, instructed by Athena, seeks Medusa's head. Athena tells him to only look at Medusa's reflection in his highly-polished shield. He obeys and succeeds in lopping off her head, which still retained its power to turn people into stone. An image of this head was placed on Athena's own aegis (breastplate) or shown on her shield.


Interesting Fact: While Medusa is usually considered to be ugly, one myth states that it was her great beauty that paralyzed all observers.

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Answer 6

Medusa was, in the days before the arrival of the Hellenes and their patriarchal sky-god religion, one earth goddess or aspect of the Universal Earth Goddess. In her Olympian degradation, she was reduced to a monster, but she was definitely once a goddess in her own right. There are numerous clues to her actual aspects in the debased version of the myth one finds extant in classical times.

In the Olympian version, she was a monster with snakes for hair and the power to turn men to stone with a gaze. Her destruction was accomplished by Perseus in order to overcome the sea-beast that threatened to devour Andromeda, with the aid of the patriarchalized goddess Athene. In the original version, many of the aspects of goddesshood later attributed to Athene probably belonged to Medusa, explaining her juxtaposition. As Joseph Campbell points out in *Occidental Mythology*, the historical Perseus was a Mycenaean king who implemented religious reforms aimed at stamping out the matriarchal religions; the Perseus-Andromeda-Athene-Medusa myth is probably a mythic transcription of this event. Medusa had two sisters, and together these three Gorgons were terrible problems; Perseus was led to them by the Graeae, the three hag sisters with one eye and one tooth between them. Both the Graeae and the Gorgons were probably once the Triple Goddess, now given two debased forms.

The snakes in her hair is a mythic defamation of the matriarchal goddess' sacred symbolization of the serpent as the skin-shedding embodiment of the capacity for immortal transformation, the mystery of Life/Death. The mirror with which she was killed (Athene's burnished shield) is also an ancient symbol of the Goddess. And She Upon Whom One Cannot Look is an ancient archetypal image of the Divine Feminine, seen also in other Greek myths such as the story of Actaeon and Artemis.

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Answer 7

She is a Greek monster that turned many warriors into stone just by making eye contact. She was eventually killed by Hercules when he held a mirror up to her. She also has snakes as hair... creepy.

Answer 8

Not much of a personality, a hairdresser's nightmare and everywhere she went, people always felt a little stiff. Plus homely to boot.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

she had snakes for hair, her gaze turns poeple to stone.