Euryale

When I think of snakes I think of something powerful, sneaky, and evil. Every since I got exposed to Medusa on the cartoon show “The Powerpuff Girls” They portrayed her as being this powerful, evil, and sneaky lady and made the snakes rooted in her head represent that as they go crazy and every since then it stuck with me. So when I first saw the image of Medusa by Caravaggio I saw all the snakes on her hair going in different patterns just as I would see on the show. I automatically saw what had been appeared to me overall a powerful woman being defeated. Growing up I have been introduced to several powerful woman that has inspired me in many different ways Such as My mother, grandmother and my oldest cousin . One of those ladies is my dear…

children, Keto, which took the form of a human woman but still possessed alarming powers over sea creatures and Phorkys, which took the form of a red-skinned merman with scales, horns and claws for feet (Hirschmann 14). Although brother and sister, Phorkys and Keto started creating their own offspring which were just as monstrous if not more than their parents. One of Phorkys and Keto’s offspring was a child who was half viper and half nymph which would later give birth to an enormous amount of…

Medusa and her sisters were known as the Gorgon sisters. There’s very little information about the Gorgon sisters as a whole after their birth but there are a lot of myths, such as this one, about parts of Medusa’s life and how said life was ended. In some versions of the myth, Sthenno and Euryale were both immortal, however, Medusa was born as a mortal woman with normal hair and wings. When Athena, the goddess of war and wisdom, had found out that Poseidon, the god of the sea, earthquakes and…

The myth of Medusa originated in Greece. Medusa’s first introduction into literature was in 1940 in Sigmund Freud’s Das Medusenhaupt (Medusa’s Head). She has also appeared in Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief. Mythology is always a changing story that is passed down orally from generation to generation so no one really knows the whole story of Medusa. She has been featured in the television show, Blood Ties, films such as Clash of the Titans, music by British band UB40 with a song called Madame…

these are all things related to this constellation. Another reason this is my favorite constellation is because of the nebula that is in it, the Horse Head Nebula. This is one of my favorite nebulas, making me like this constellation so much more. The last reason is simple that I find it to be a beautiful constellation that I fell in love with on sight. Aside from just the fact that I love this constellation, there is a lot of information on it. Orion is located on the celestial equator and can…

A beautiful young woman she was. Medusa had golden hair and a beautiful face. She was everything a man would dream of. She was one of the Gordon sisters and she also was mortal. Her two sisters Stethno and Euryale where immortal. Her parents where Phorkys and Keto, (children of Gaea and Oceanus which mean Earth and ocean). She was a fair maiden and priestess of Athena. She was a very pure woman. But something happened in Medusa’s life. Something that changed her life completely. When love…

and laying his hands upon her beautiful body. He barely got his hands on her when the back of his knees started to buckle and his legs started to shake. He could no longer control himself. Zeus proceeded to insert his thunder sausage into the young maiden. She protested and fought against him, but was unable to fight off the much larger and more powerful god. Once he was finished, he cleaned himself and left promptly hardly pausing to look back and the crying girl. Zeus went back to Mount…

a son, Nauplius. Later on, he held a lustful attraction to Demeter and she had transformed into a horse to escape Poseidon who was pursuing her. Afterwards, he transformed into a horse and had a daughter and son: Arion and Desponia. He arranged intercourse with Medusa inside of the temple of Athena. Athena, later, cursed Medusa to be a monster forever (Greek-Gods.org - Poseidon). Besides having love affairs with gods, he had other love affairs with mortal women as well. He fooled a mortal…