#medusa deity

[mythicalmuseomine]

Lady Medusa

Protector and watcher of survivors

Requested by @ironrainmain

I am taking requests.

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Greek Gods 101: Medusa

Medusa is a Gorgon associated with water, rage, protection, reflection, and turning objects to stone. Excluding the universal offerings, some common offerings include:

Stones and Rocks

Depictions of Snakes

Depictions of Swine or Tusks

Water

Anything Relating to the Sea (Seashells, Driftwood, Coral, Etc.)

Depictions of Shields

Weapons or Depictions of Them

Journals

Self-Help Books

For devotional acts, some activities that can be done for her include:

Volunteering at DV or Women’s Shelters

Donating to Women in Need

Taking Self-Defense Classes

Exercising

Visiting the Sea or Other Large Bodies of Water

Stone Carving/Sculpting

Knapping or Learning to Do So

Journaling

Going to Therapy

Improving/Bettering Yourself

She is not celebrated in any Athenian holidays.

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I'm sorry my lady 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

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୨Intro୧

I am not sure who made the divider :3

Hi, my name is Leanne but call me Lana <3

I'm 15 y/o and I am a Devotee to Lady Aphrodite and I worship Lady Medusa. (Yes I know they are not compatible with eachother but I keep them separated and I never combine my work or worship to them)

My typical pronouns are: she/they

My 'unusual' pronouns are: it/doll/bunny (obvi you don't have to use if uncomfortable same with they/them)

I'm Aromantic and Omnisexual (pref for males)

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I like:

Shows/movies/games:

The walking dead

The boys

Euphoria

Httyd/rtte

Thirteen

Cod modern warfare (warning: ppl consider me a fake fan because I only know the main characters which is fine just wanted to let the be known :3)

Stardew valley

Animal crossing

Famous ppl:

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Lana Del Rey

Will wood

Mitski

Alec Benjamin

Extra:

Greek mythology

Animals

Sanrio

Animals:

Elephants

Cheetahs

Sharks

Penguins

Sheep

Goats <3

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Dni:

Mean ppl

Bigoted ppl

Basic dni criteria

Boundaries:

Do NOT say I'm prettier then Lady Aphrodite (she is literally the goddess of beauty)

Do NOT say Lady Medusa is a monster

No NSFW sent to me

I will NOT show my face without face covering filter.

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Preview of some panels from a comic feat. Eros and Aphrodite that I'll be posting this weekend.

It's currently up on my Patreon. ✨

[olympiansowl]

One thing I find so interesting about the PJO fandom is how they actually accepted how Rick fucked up 90% of the goddesses. Even when he uses a version of a myth that specifically talks about men being idiots, he villainizes women. Like, no one complained about how fucked up is that he used the story of Hephaestus trying to rape Athena and turning it into a “poor guy cried bc he was rejected by a girl” thing?

The true story is literally Hephaestus trying to rape Athena, she fights him off but his semen falls into her skirt and cleans it with a piece of cloth and tosses it into the ground (earth, which is Gaia) and from there, Erictonio is born. And Athena raised the child as her own even tho he was the product of the assault she suffered. The guy ruled Athens.

Rick turned it into Hephaestus falling in love with Athena and crying on her lap, making her reject and KICK him plus being disgusted by the tears and the dirt.

He also used all of Ovid versions he could possibly find to fuck Athena up. Arachne doesn’t happen with Greek writers and Medusa was never cursed (or assaulted) when we talk about the OG Myth. She was already born a monster and Athena only helps Perseus kill her bc yeah, Medusa killed people.

Also, Medusa’s version by Ovid is a lot alike Cassandra of Troy story, and let me tell ya, Cassandra was cursed but it wasn’t by a woman. And when she was raped by Ajax, Athena made sure that he didn’t made it back to Greece.

Now I’m gonna talk about Demeter. Demeter, who had her daughter kidnapped, raped and imprisoned, and was turned into the typical “mother in law who hated son in law bc she thinks her daughter could do better” when yeah…she has all the right to feel angry bc her daughter was KIDNAPPED.

Artemis doesn’t hate men and her followers also don’t hate men. Feminism isn’t about hating men.

Aphrodite. I cannot even describe how dirty they made Aphrodite’s children. Like be fr one of her children helped build what it would’ve been Rome. He was a fighter. And her cabin there is just so different of what she is truly like. They should have a lot of other powers.

Also, a lot of women from the books follows the same stereotype of “omg I hate makeup it’s so girlish and I’d rather fight” like you can be feminine, wear makeup and STILL FIGHT. One doesn’t erase the other.

Another thing, but this one is about MOTHERS! I truly cannot understand the way Rick creates his women. I’m serious tho. Like, I’m sorry but sometimes it seems that his thing some goddesses (Athena, for example) are personal. The “abandoning Athens” thing, the “should’ve chosen Poseidon”, the way he wrote her as being cold towards her kids…in one of the versions, Athena was the one who saved Dionysus from Hera. She raised a child and made him a king even though he was the product of her almost rapist. She was there helping heroes all along. She fought for Odysseus for ten years.

Also, this fandom is incapable of seeing the difference between Minerva and Athena. Minerva gave Annabeth the mark, Athena had nothing to do with this. Annabeth is her favorite daughter, she made her architect of Olympus, protected her through her journey to find Luke and Thalia, disobeyed her fathers orders trying to help to find Annabeth, made battle plans with her and all…and she always claimed all of her children.

I think people just don’t like her bc she doesn’t trust Percy. And she shouldn’t. I love him, but Athena IS the goddess of wisdom after all and as such, it would be pretty dumb to trust a demigod that won a battle against the god of war when he was only twelve. Not to mention that everyone kinda thought the “preserve or destroy Olympus” was on his hands. And he tortured a goddess…I’m sorry but she was pretty much right. Wouldn’t trust someone that had the power to fuck me and my family up either. She dint made the choice based on “omg I hate my rival and his children” even more so bc she was trained by one of his children and bunch of grandchildren. She made the choice based on what she thought was less risky.

If she was so against Percabeth, I can assure you she would’ve killed Percy and probably wouldn’t even suffer much consequences. She admires some things about Percy but she was right about his flaw. And she also helped him during one of his quest to go to college. Does she loves the idea of the relationship? No. But that’s bc she is precisely the opposite of love. She doesn’t make decisions based on what her heart says, but on what her brain says. If she succumbs to the heart, then she would seize to be goddess of wisdom, reason and all of what she values. That’s why she vowed to never marry.

And, as Helenist, I do not take the myths that seriously bc when we talk about religion, I have a clear mind that those myth were made by humans who used the gods as a tool to justify some of their actions, and I hate almost all of the retellings that those authors do, but is so wild to see how much power they have on society bc now I cannot see anything about the gods without someone saying shit about them. But I do know all about the myths and I gotta say, doesn’t make much sense to use a Roman author to talk about Greek Gods. He made them dirty. Also doesn’t make much sense to use this versions of Ovid but still change it to make it more sweet for the men. Poseidon and Athena didn’t spend that much time beefing, they even have a city together (Troezen) and she definitely doesn’t hate his children. Her best friend was literally his grandchild.

Safe to say that y’all should probably question Rick on how he treats women bc I was seeing the PJO series (the cast is amazing btw, safe to say that Leah/Annabeth is my fav) and by the looks of it, saying on how he changed Athena’s personality one more time, I legit think that Annie won’t jump to save her friends on season 3, she will probably be pushed by her mother or whatever.

Another thing: apparently only the women that like and have a friendship with Percy are treated as cool. But that’s on the fandom, not the author.

I forgot to add one thing and I’m gonna fix the grammar later but the “this is for children” excuse isn’t really valid considering that we saw Gabe being aggressive with Sally, we also saw Ares being a jerk to Clarisse (which also doesn’t make sense) and the story clearly states cheating, fights, death and a lot of other terrors. If you’re gonna use a rape version of a myth bc you chose to fuck a Goddess up, then you should state that the man is to blame. In the books we see Medusa saying she was Poseidon’s girlfriend/lover…she was his lover on the og myth, not in the version Rick chose. In the version that he chose, she was clearly raped. But he erased that and replaced rapist with boyfriend. He could’ve chosen to do another path if he didn’t want to talk about sexual abuse, I can tell y’all a hundred of ways this could go, but he chose this path and changed it, favoring the man. Again.

He could’ve gone with the theogony and said what was there that basically is: she was a monster, BORN a monster, daughter of other two monsters, no one wanted to get close to her, but he did. They slept together in a camp of flowers.

Athena only enters the story wayyy after this. And, as y’all can see, no curse. Yet, he chose to go with the rape version were Medusa is a maiden, loyal to Athena, gets raped on Athena’s temple by Poseidon and Athena curses her. And what did the author do? He made this: Medusa, loyal to Athena, fell in love with Poseidon and they did things on her temple. Athena cursed her. Again erasing the men’s fault.

The hate on Athena doesn’t make any sense at all. Y’all love some other male characters that don’t have a single sense of responsibility and possibly did everything wrong in the book. I saw people condemn Athena for her treatment of Deadalus when the guy literally killed his nephew bc he was more praised than him. And Athena gave him a mark that burned and did some shit to teach him a lesson. Poseidon wanted a trial to avenge his rapist son that was killed by Ares bc he tried to rape one of Ares daughters. A RAPIST. And Poseidon is treated like and angel bc what??? He likes Percy? Is his father and got him a gift? And Athena is being hated bc she isn’t his number one fan and her Roman part decided to give Annabeth a Mark? And mind you she’s just like that with him bc she knows more than everyone else and knows that he is dangerous. A good guy? Yes, Percy is the most amazing guy. Still dangerous. Still had the power to torture a goddess and win against the god of war. And she doesn’t dislike him, she dislikes his relationship with her daughter. And even so, she didn’t stop the relationship. So yeah I won’t ever get why the women always get more hate than the men considering this.

Again, as a Helenist, I don’t take the myths seriously when I talk about the religion in general bc the Gods are superiors. They don’t have human flaws. But, as someone who knows about the myths, is safe to say I hate those stories that uses myths like that and turns it against the Goddesses and make them out to be the worst ever. All the gods deserved way better than what they got with those retellings.

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In art and literature, Pegasus (and by extension Chrysaor) was born from Medusa’s head fully formed, but wouldn’t it be funny if Pegasus and Chrysaor were born as babies so Perseus and Athena had to take some accountability for orphaning their monstrous cousins? Idk I just thought this would be amusing.

Also in my retelling, Perseus sneaks up on Medusa while she’s asleep and her sisters aren’t home, but he slips up and Medusa wakes up and they fought.

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[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

Ok, but make it mythical:

Dionysus as a little fae child in the wilderness vs Dionysus after beheading Pentheus.

Medusa in her priestess attire vs all snakey

Odysseus

Demeter hopeful and pregnant vs the raging crone of winter

Paris holding staring sadly at the shepherd’s crook he’s about to leave behind vs Paris staring in horror at the arrow he’s just pulled from Achilles’ heart.

Callisto vs. a glorious fat happy bear

Aphrodite fresh from the ocean, tasting an apple for the first time vs Aphrodite spattered in blood and wishing she could get rid of the golden apple that so many Trojan lives

Little Achilles smiling with his arm around Pat vs ✨ the rage ✨

Hestia with a single flame on the tip of one of her fingers like a match in the dark from inside Kronos’s innards vs Hestia getting to tend a whole alter fire for herself.

Narcissus before and after — you could do something clever with the pool

Nervous Icarus trying on his wings vs sopping wet, hair smoking, tarred and feathered trashcan of a lad giving himself a big grin and a thumbs up

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Travel Altars: Medusa

A guide to travel altars for Medusa. Please tell me if you want a certain deity covered!

In this guide, I’m assuming you’ve added a tea-light or LED candle. It isn’t necessary, but it’s not going to be included in any of these guides. I’m also going to be assuming you’ve added a photo of the deity and prayers. These guides will not include those, either.

Petrified Wood

Serpent Figurines or Photos

Reptile Skin

Stone

Mirrors

Seashells

Gold

Reptile Bones

Pegasi Figurines or Photos

Coral

Strong Perfumes

A Jar of Sand

See more deities here.

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Digital offering to Medusa <3

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All pics found on Pinterest

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online offering for Medusa to say thank you for helping me with spells today :3 love you

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Lady Medusa’s aesthetic

[novagale]

Some more Azithena and Crowdusa 🕊️🐍

[wisdom-devotee]

How do you interpret the myth of Medusa? I interpret this myth as representing the goddess Athena as implacable and blind justice.

Before I get into this I do want to say that I love interpreting myth, so if anyone else has any other myths they want to chat with me about please feel free! That said, I need to clear a few things up on this one.

The commonly referenced Medusa myth is not by a Greek, but by Ovid who was Roman, writing during the Roman Empire while Greece was a colonised state, and they changed the myths to make the Greeks seem barbaric and awful to their Roman standard of morals. Ovid particularly hated Athena — having also written the Arachne myth.

So, my interpretation of the Medusa myth is that she was always a Gorgon, like her sisters, and that Athena had nothing to do with her becoming that way. The tragedy of Medusa is that when she was killed she was pregnant, which none of them knew. What’s also tragic is that she was the only mortal gorgon, and her sisters mourned her. Their mourning in fact haunted Athena so much she created a musical instrument, similar to a flute, to portray their cries.

Perseus and Athena, however, are not villains in this myth. Perseus killed Medusa to save and protect his mother. If you want to portray a feminist side of Greek mythology, don’t use Medusa. Use the fact that Perseus would do anything to protect his mother. Use the fact that Athena, a woman, is the one who taught him. Use the fact that Medusa and her sisters had so much love for each other that their grief moved a goddess.

People often try to make feminist retellings of these stories that just end up feeling flat, because the women of Greek myth are not inherently unfeminist, and by trying to change them into victims and girlbosses, we lose so much nuance.

Sorry for the tangent — but these things are really important to me as an Athena devotee. I don’t mean to come across as angry or anything.

As a final note, i do need to specify that I don’t think there is anything wrong with using Medusa as a symbol to represent surviving SA, and the tattoos and things people get are gorgeous. Symbols can change meaning over time and this is important. But it’s important to at least be aware of the history, especially as a Helpol.