Medusa is a Gorgon in ancient Greek mythology, and one of the three sisters of Gorgon. She lives on the other side of the river encircling the earth and connecting with the land of night. The father is fulkus, the son of Gaia, the goddess of the earth, and Pontos, the God of the sea, and the mother is keto, the sister of fulkus.
Medusa was a Gorgon of ancient Greece. Anyone who saw her eyes would be petrified. The monster was slain by the hero Perseus with the help of Athena and Hermes. Perseus dedicated his head to Athena, so it was embedded in Athena's Divine Shield.
The earliest written record of Medusa can be found in the long poem "divine spectrum" by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod. According to the divine spectrum (lines 274-286): Medusa is the daughter of foulcus and keto, the father of all kinds of monsters. She and her other two sisters, steno and euryale, are collectively known as Golgi. Among the three Golgi sisters, only Medusa has a dead body (in ancient Greece, "there is a dead body"（ θνητός） It often refers to mortals, but this is not to say that Medusa is a mortal. According to her birth and ability, she is undoubtedly a monster). Medusa was beheaded by the ancient Greek hero Perseus, and the two sons of Poseidon and medusa "were born with golden swords in their hands". The giants clethaor and Pegasus jumped out of her body.
Although earlier Homer's epic once mentioned the Golgi, only the singular form was used in the epic, that is, Homer knew only one Golgi, and did not mention the name of Medusa.
In the ancient Greek art of the Archaic period, gergong Medusa all spit out their tongues and teeth, with poisonous snakes on their heads and ferocious faces. This shape has the effect of exorcising evil spirits, while painting on the shield can intimidate the enemy. In the classical period, works beautifying Medusa appeared. At the same time, Pindar, a poet in the classical period, also called Medusa "good cheeked" (16 lines of the twelfth song of pitot Cairn), and later myths even appeared that Medusa was murdered because she tried to be more beautiful than Athena (Apollodorus, library 2.4.3). In Roman art, there is no lack of Medusa as a snake haired beauty. In ancient times, Medusa had no snake body but only snake hair, but it was often depicted as a snake body in modern works.
According to the Roman poet Ovid's metamorphes4.770, Medusa was originally a beautiful girl, because she was raped by Neptune (corresponding to Poseidon in Greek mythology) in the temple of Minerva (corresponding to Athena in Greek mythology), which first appeared in this Roman poem and was not found in ancient Greek literature [2].
According to the divine spectrum (line 277) written by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod, Medusa is the only one who cannot live forever. So Perseus was able to cut off her head, kill her, and dedicate it to Athena, who embedded Medusa's head in the center of aegis. According to another account, Perseus buried it in the market of Argos. It is said that Heracles received a pinch of Medusa's snake hair (with the same magic as the head) from Athena and gave it to stelope, the daughter of Capus, to protect the city of Tegua from attack. As soon as this clump of hair appears in front of the people, it will cause a storm and make the enemy flee. In addition, it is said that Medusa and Poseidon had two sons. They appeared in the blood spurted from Medusa's neck after she was killed, namely, Pegasus and giant krysaar.

In Greek legend, "Gorgon" is a general term for the three serpent girls with very similar faces, including
Sisina stheno (also translated as "steno")
Euryale (also translated as "Euryale")
Medusa medusa
Among the three sisters of the Gorgon, only Medusa is a mortal, and her sisters sisina and Yuri Ailey are demons. It was Medusa, the youngest sister, who was killed by Perseus. Because the other two sisters had the super power of undead, no matter how many times Perseus hacked, they would never die. Finally, Perseus had to give up and run away. While escaping the pursuit of Medusa's two sisters, Perseus encountered a strong wind in the air and was blown to the left and right. The blood dripping from Medusa's head fell into the Libyan Desert and became snakes.

In the west of the Greek peninsula, there is a city called Argos, and King Acrisius has a very beautiful and lovely princess named Danae. Acrisius loves this daughter very much, but the oracle of the Delphi Temple of the sun god tells Acrisius that he will die at the hands of his grandson. In order to prevent his daughter from getting to know men, he built a tall tower made of bronze and locked Dana in it. No one was allowed to approach. Zeus, who was naturally romantic, would not let go of such beauty. He turned into a golden rain and spilled it through the only window of the copper tower to meet Dana.
Ten months later, Dana gave birth to a healthy and lively boy named Perseus, which means "glittering". After hearing this, Achilles had intended to kill them, but killing his relatives would be sent by heaven, and the goddess of Vengeance (erinyes) would be in hot pursuit, and he couldn't bear to start, so Achilles decided to put Dana's mother and son in a wooden box and throw them into the sea to let them live and die.
The wooden box drifted to an island called Cyprus with the sea water, and was rescued by Dictys, the younger brother of the king of the island. He liked Perseus very much and took him as an adopted son to raise him. Eighteen years later, Perseus grew up and became a handsome and brave blonde boy. Diktis' brother polydictes had a crush on Dana early on and wanted to marry her, but she refused him on the ground of raising Perseus, so he always regarded Perseus as a thorn in his side. [3]
At a birthday party, Polytex gave a grand banquet to the royal family. He deliberately invited Perseus to the banquet and looked for an opportunity to taunt him. Perseus did not bring any gifts, so he said that as long as the king spoke, he could bring anything back to the king as a gift. Polly tex deliberately said that she wanted the head of Medusa, the snake haired Banshee. The young and competitive Perseus didn't know about Medusa at all, but he wanted to take the risk, so he promised Polly de tex. in fact, Polly de tex wanted to take this opportunity to make Perseus unable to return and let him die under the Gorgon. Perseus was afraid of his mother's worry, so he left without saying goodbye and went alone to find the legendary Gorgon. [3]
When Perseus was ready to set out to find the Gorgon, a friendly old fisherman said to help him and lent him some treasures. It turned out that the old fisherman was the embodiment of Athena. The treasures she lent Perseus were: a pair of shoes that could fly to the sky by the god Hermes, a hat that could be invisible by Hades, a leather bag that could be retracted at will and could not be bitten by any beast, and a diamond sword that cut iron like mud. Athena also lent him her shield. The goddess instructed him to find the three grey women in order to defeat Gorgon.
Grey Niang is Gorgon's sister, who lives at the west end of the sea. They were born very old. Three people share one eye and one tooth in turn. Only they know where Gorgon is and how to deal with it. Perseus came to Cinderella's residence and hid. When one of them took his eyes off and handed them to the other, he grabbed them. Perseus threatened to crush his eyes if they didn't tell him how to defeat Gorgon. Forced by helplessness, grey Niang had to tell Perseus. [3]
Perseus followed the gray Niang's instructions and came to the island where Gorgon lived. He used Athena's shield to reflect the correct position of the Gorgon sisters, and while the three were asleep, he slowly retreated to Medusa's side, cut off her head with a sword, and put her head in a leather bag. At this time, the other two golgon woke up, saw his sister's tragic death, and wanted to find Perseus, the killer who killed her. Unfortunately, Perseus put on his invisibility hat and flying shoes. The two golgon couldn't see him, and he also left smoothly with Medusa's head. The blood flowing from Medusa's neck suddenly burst into smoke, and a winged Pegasus flew out. This is Pegasus, the Pegasus of Pegasus. The giant krysaar also came out after Perseus left. They are all descendants of Poseidon.
Perseus took the leather bag containing Medusa's head and rode back on Pegasus. When he passed the coast of Ethiopia on his way, he saw a beautiful woman naked and tied to the shore with iron training, looking very pitiful. Perseus then went to ask the truth. It turned out that she was the princess of this country, Andromeda. Her mother loved vanity and boasted of her beauty. She once boasted that she was more beautiful than the fairy Nereid in the sea. People were not allowed to visit the fairy in the sea, but to visit her. Therefore, she offended Poseidon, the God of the sea. Poseidon triggered a tsunami to submerge the country's land and destroy people's houses, The only way is to offer her daughter Andromeda to the sea monster as food, otherwise there will be a greater disaster to Ethiopia.

When Perseus knew the whole thing, he was duty bound to promise to defeat the sea monster for her and save her from here. Suddenly, there was a loud noise from the sea, and the waves suddenly separated. A sea monster with a black body, a single horned head and a trident shaped tail rushed towards the suspended shore where they were at a very fast speed. Wearing sky shoes and holding a sword that cuts iron like mud, Perseus jumped into the air to attack the sea monster. He stabbed the sea monster with a sword, and then took out Medusa's head from the leather bag, turning the sea monster into stone (Cetus refers to this sea monster). Perseus returned to the palace of Ethiopia with Andromeda. King Cepheus and queen Cassiopeia warmly welcomed them. They were very grateful to Perseus for saving their beloved daughter and decided to marry her daughter to Perseus. In fact, they had admired each other for a long time. Even if the king did not propose, Perseus would ask to marry Andromeda.
On the day of their grand wedding in Ethiopia, Andromeda's fiance Phineus led the army to make trouble, dissatisfied with the king's breach of the engagement. But king sipes said, "when your fiancee is in trouble, you will only hide in a safe place. On the contrary, the brave Perseus spared no effort to save her. He is the one who really cares about Andromeda. You are not qualified to be her fiance!" However, binius was already furious. He ordered the army to attack Perseus to kill him. Perseus, of course, couldn't resist the whole army, so he shouted loudly, "if it's my friend, don't look!" Then he took out Medusa's head and turned all the enemies to stone. Andromeda refers to the image of the beautiful princess Andromeda tied to a rock with an iron chain to sacrifice to the sea monster, while Cepheus refers to King sipes, and Cassiopeia is queen Cassiopeia. [4]
After Perseus successfully married Andromeda, he returned to Cyprus with his new wife. Knowing that King Polly tex forced his mother Dana to marry him, she refused, so she imprisoned her. Perseus was very angry and immediately went to the palace to find Polly tex. Polydetex was having a dinner with the ministers at this time. Seeing Perseus returning intact, he immediately showed an unhappy look. He said that Perseus did not kill Medusa at all, but was scared to escape. Perseus opened the bag and said, "if you don't believe it, use your eyes to see it clearly!" He held Medusa's head high and turned everyone to stone. The people wanted to make Perseus king, but he wanted to go back to Argos City, his motherland, so he gave the throne to his adoptive father diktis, and he took his mother and wife back. Knowing that his grandson had become a famous hero, Achilles, the king of Argos, was very afraid. He left Argos and hid. [3]
Perseus took a boat back, but the strong wind made them deviate from the route and arrived at Thessaly, the neighboring city of Argos, where a large-scale sports meeting was held, and Perseus participated in it with great interest. When he threw the discus, because it was too strong, the discus was thrown askew, fell on the audience, and killed an old man. It turned out that this old man was the king of Argos, Acrisius. He had wanted to escape here, but he died in the hands of his grandchildren. The oracle was finally fulfilled.
Perseus held Medusa's head in his left hand (that is, Da Lingwu), holding a sword in his right hand, and wearing flying shoes on his feet, was scheduled to be in heaven and become Perseus.
(Note: Ethiopia is not Ethiopia today, but a dynasty originally located on the north coast of Africa).
Although Gorgon's blood is highly toxic, it has special power, which once gave Eric tronias (see erichthonius) the ability to bring the dead back to life. Perseus killed the sea monster setus (see Cetus) with the severed head of Medusa. When he returned, he gave the head to Athena, who fixed it in the center of her shield / breastplate. The heads of the Golgi sisters are often used by artists in symbolic badges, architectural decorations, and even Athens coins, as well as soldiers' shields. [4]
There is another saying about Gore's blood: the blood flowing from Gore's right body can cure any disease, while the blood from his left body is fatal.