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..."Medusa was a gorgon, one of three sisters and daughters of ancient, pre-titan gods, Phorcys and Ceto.
Unlike her sisters - Sthenno and Euryale , she was a mortal. Born beautiful, Medusa was seduced by Poseidon, disguised as a horse, in one of Athena's temples.
All three gorgons were so hideous that the mere shock of seeing them would turn anyone to stone.
Medusa is also the “Mistress of the West Gate of Death” because her home lay at the entrance to the Underworld on the side of the western Ocean. She is the Krone Goddess in her most terrible aspect."
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Unlike her sisters - Sthenno and Euryale , she was a mortal. Born beautiful, Medusa was seduced by Poseidon, disguised as a horse, in one of Athena's temples.
All three gorgons were so hideous that the mere shock of seeing them would turn anyone to stone.
Medusa is also the “Mistress of the West Gate of Death” because her home lay at the entrance to the Underworld on the side of the western Ocean. She is the Krone Goddess in her most terrible aspect."
Credits
Background source: Angelia61_Stock
Model: Voivodess_Stock
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It's interesting to note that Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale were born monstrous, and it was always told that way in legend until the 1st century BC, when according to the Roman poet Ovid (Metamorphoses 4.770), Medusa was originally a ravishingly beautiful maiden, "the jealous aspiration of many suitors". But because Poseidon had raped her in Athena's temple, the enraged Athena transformed Medusa's beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn onlookers to stone. In Ovid's telling, Perseus describes Medusa's punishment by Minerva (Athena) as just and well earned.