#goddess medusa

[saganssorcery]

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Artist: Anass Benktitou 🔥🖌️

[nightingale2004]

Meet my PJO oc

Kendra Henrickson: female

Age: 16

Height: 5'6

Personality: kind, devoted, loyal, caring, cautious, respectful, polite, honorable, determined, intuitive, protective, fierce, confident, smart, observant, serious, aggressive, clever, strong-willed, courageous, motherly, stubborn, sarcastic, quiet, reserved, perceptive, calm, strategic

Looks:

(She has green snake scales on the side of her neck, the side of her arms, and legs)

Godly parent: Medusa

Powers: hair snakes, charm speak, stone stare (lasts for a few hours up to a week), super strength, snake qualities (she gains the qualities of a snake), snake speak, victim sense, venom bite, lie detection

Mortal parent: Duncan Henrickson

Weapon: bow and arrow, crossbow

Camp position: Head councilor of the Medusa cabin

Likes: reading, sparring, music, target practice, being alone, plants, animals, taking care of the Pegasai, drawing, poetry, painting, helping new campers, bonfire nights

Dislikes: the ocean, Poseidon, Athena, Zeus, lightning storms, loud thunder, any large body of water, bullies, r4pists, monsters, injustice, the gods (occasionally), Kronos and his followers

Known siblings: Jasper Bane (@rey-diem )

Backstory: Medusa met Kendra's father when he was 18 and in his last year in high school. Kendra's dad was a victim of physical and mental abuse by his own parents and SA by bullies in high school. Medusa gifted him Kendra and helped him get out of his..."situation." As Duncan raised Kendra, Zeus did not make it easy for him. But Duncan made sure that he would protect his daughter no matter what. Kendra went to camp when she was 10. Her mother sent both Kendra and her father signs because of her love for her children and those who truly love them like their own. Medusa also makes sure that her children and followers are protected and safe with all her ability.

[artworksstore]

New design just added to my Fine Art America Store featuring the goddess Medusa

[namedvesta]

Snake Headpieces, by Harumi Klossowska de Rola, for Valentino Couture Show | Spring 2016.

[medusaspeach]

Artemis and Callisto sketch

[sarafangirlart]

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.

[rapha-reads]

No but I gotta talk about Medusa for a minute actually.

It's been. A very long time since I read the PJO books so I don't exactly remember how Uncle Rick presents Medusa in the book. But the way the show introduces her myth? Fascinating. For me as a Greek mythology enthusiast, that is.

The show makes Medusa a victim of Athena. Of course, the show is mainly for kids, so they can't exactly say that, hey, kids, Medusa was Athena's priestess and she was raped by Poseidon, YEP, or protagonist's father, IN Athena's temple, nah, that's neither kid-friendly nor does it endears us to Poseidon. Not that Poseidon is very dear to us viewers/readers at this point, our narrator/protagonist can't stand his own dad.

But still what fascinates me is that even though they twisted the myth to ft the narrative they still managed to evoke Athena's curse as being actually a gift, and Medusa not feeling wretched over her condition but blessed.

Which is not a modern reading of the myth, actually. Saying that Athena couldn't punish Poseidon for his transgression and could only punish Medusa, but did so in a way that would give Medusa weapons to defend herself against whoever and whatever would try to harm her again, is a narrative that exists since Antiquity.

My point is that the re-framing of Medusa's myth, departing from the traditional, non-kid-friendly version while still incorporating both classic and modern elements, is a good frame of reference for the series (book and show)' entire approach to mythology. And I guess I'm saying that mostly for the non-book readers who are discovering this world, many of whom might be Greek mythology fans and might have gone "wait, why is Hades AGAIN presented as the bad guy when he's the chillest, most normal, most stable god in this entire pantheon", because that's a conversation the book fandom has been having (over and over again) for more than a decade.

Anyway, yeah. As a long time book fan and a show appreciative, here's my advice to anyone who knows WAY too much about Greek myths and still want to enjoy the ride without going every five minutes "wait, that's not correct": reframe. Contemporary rewritings, modern audiences and Fantasy genre.

[thereinart]

I'm sorry

[nyx-rgbb]

[wisebeth]

why does the pjo series have to unnecessarily villainize goddesses (hera & athena) or show them as silly ladies (aphrodite & demeter) BUT posiedon and apollo are somehow shown as the coolest/most likeable gods, even though arguably, they're right after zeus on terms of corruption?

ares shown as the worst god after zeus and hera amuses me. last time i checked, he was the patron god of amazons and literally killed a man for attempting to rape his daughter but guess who cursed women for rejection? apollo. guess who raped women when they said no (aside from zeus)? posiedon.

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[saganssorcery]

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[nightingale2004]

Medusa as a goddess headcanons

She is the Goddess of victims (thank you, @rey-diem )

Out of all the gods, she is very rebellious and defiant against Zeus and those who follow him.

She didn't immediately become a goddess, but after a long time of self-healing and such, godhood was bestowed upon her

She has a strong hatred for Poseidon and Athena. She also feels sorry for their mortal victims who have caught their attention (same for the mortal victims who have suffered the hands of the other gods)

Medusa would be a maiden Goddess, and her sisters would be at her side.

Obvious tension between Medusa and Athena

She is a hands-on interactive Goddess. She always interacts with her worshippers and her children

She's very protective of her people and children

Hates Poseidon and Athena with a passion and tries to keep her children far, FAR away from theirs

People who have a tattoo of Medusa, she protects and they are her followers

That's all. Hope you enjoy.

[h0bg0blin-meat]

To every new person in the Greek myth fandom who shits on Athena because of what she did to Medusa....

Can y'all like..... Idk maybe NOT take Ovid's Metamorphoses as your ONLY source of Medusa's origin story?? (Furthermore that version isn't Greek either, it's Roman. So it's not Athena anyway, it's Minerva in that case).

And maybe like... Idk look at the GREEK myths (where Medusa didn't HAVE a traumatic backstory) that PRECEDE Ovid's version?? Would really not hurt you to look at and/or consider more than just one interpretation of the story.

PS: This is NOT to say that you CAN'T consider Ovid's version at all. You can, but atleast don't consider only THAT version to be canon. Cuz it's not. Myths like this don't follow a linear path. They are branched into several different versions. And cherry-picking only one of them while actively pretending the other versions don't exist at all is not gonna help you in your theological development.

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[medusaspeach]

The Horai were the goddesses of seasons and natural portions of time.

Chose to portray them as triplets this time. Of course, It would be fun to depict them as more "elemental", but I went with simple human designs for this. I plan to have them printed on my new thank-you cards soon. ✨

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