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In Greek mythology, Medusa (/mɪˈdjuːzə, -sə/; Ancient Greek: Μέδουσα "guardian, protectress")[1] also called Gorgo, was one of the three monstrous Gorgons, generally described as winged human females with living venomous snakes in place of hair. The three Gorgon sisters—Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale—were all children of the ancient marine deities Phorcys (or "Phorkys") and his sister Ceto (or "Keto"), chthonic monsters from an archaic world. Die Ge… 1986 wurde der Roman mit dem Alfred-Döblin Preis ausgezeichnet. [24], Even in contemporary pop culture, Medusa has become largely synonymous with feminine rage. Appearance Stick Empires. While her sisters were immortal man-eaters, Medusa was the only one of the three who could be killed. Medusa was beheaded by the Greek hero Perseus, who thereafter used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon[4] until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield. Cixous calls writing "an act which will not only 'realize' the decensored relation of woman to her sexuality, to her womanly being, giving her access to her native strength; it will give her back her goods, her pleasures, her organs, her immense bodily territories which have been kept under seal." She was eventually slain by the hero, Perseus. Their genealogy is shared with other sisters, the Graeae, as in Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, which places both trinities of sisters far off "on Kisthene's dreadful plain": Near them their sisters three, the Gorgons, winged Medusa, by Caravaggio (1595) In Greek mythology Medusa ( Greek: Μέδουσα (Médousa), "guardian, protectress") was a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as having the face of a hideous human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair. From Hades should send up an awful monster's grisly head. Jack London uses Medusa in this way in his novel The Mutiny of the Elsinore:[34]. Most sources describe her as the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto,[2] although the author Hyginus makes her the daughter of Gorgon and Ceto.[3]. In an ode written in 490 BC, Pindar already speaks of "fair-cheeked Medusa".[5]. Stephen Wilk, author of Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon, questioned Medusa's enduring status among the feminist movement. Als Perseus die Medusa enthauptet hatte, entsprang ihrem Körper das erste geflügelte Pferd namens Pegasos, da Medusa von Poseidon geschwängert worden war, nachdem er die Gestal… an actual historic rupture, a sort of sociological trauma, which has been registered in this myth, much as what Freud terms the latent content of a neurosis is registered in the manifest content of a dream: registered yet hidden, registered in the unconscious yet unknown or misconstrued by the conscious mind. Medusa is a dimorphic character in the popular imagination; either a tragic feminist hero or a terrifying monstrous villain. Available from. In Freud's interpretation: "To decapitate = to castrate. After he killed Medusa for Aphrodite, Kratos kept Medusa's Head and used its Gorgon powers to turn his enemies into stone. [2], Im 2018 erschienenen autobiografischen Roman "Das Mädchen auf dem Eisfeld" beschreibt Adélaïde Bon die körperlichen Leiden infolge der erlittenen Vergewaltigung als junges Mädchen als Tentakel oder Medusen, die plötzlich und zunächst ohne erkennbaren Zusammenhang gewaltsam von ihrem Körper Besitz ergreifen. MEDUSA, firing upon the wall of Batmunkh Gompa. There are no recorded instances of Medusa turning a woman to stone. Auch in anderen Fällen erwies sich das abgeschlagene Haupt der Medusa als günstige Waffe: Als der Titan Atlas, der das Himmelsgewölbe auf seinen Schultern trug, nicht im Sinne des Perseus handelte, präsentierte dieser ihm das Medusenhaupt, woraufhin Atlas zu einem Gebirge erstarrte – das Atlasgebirge in Marokko. Due to Sakura's unwillingness to participate as a Master, Shinji Matou is instead given control over Rider. [9] In a similar manner, the corals of the Red Sea were said to have been formed of Medusa's blood spilled onto seaweed when Perseus laid down the petrifying head beside the shore during his short stay in Ethiopia where he saved and wed his future wife, the lovely princess Andromeda who was the most beautiful woman in the world at that time. Some stories say that there was one more unnamed Gorgon who was older than the others. Medusa and her sister Crystal were born to the Inhumans Ambur and Quelin in the city of Attilan.Her parents believed in tearing down the caste system and overthrowing the Inhuman Royal Family that had ruled Attilan for centuries. Through many of her iterations, Medusa pushes back against a story that seeks to place the male, Perseus, at its center, blameless and heroic. Das Blut der Medusa schenkte Pallas Athene dem Asklepios und dem Erichthonios. Rating Limcuando, aboard the freighter Argentum A Medusaeis an invertebrate, alien parasitic organism that resides within the Aeldari Webway. Der Anblick ließ jeden zu Stein erstarren. In so doing, we unravel a familiar narrative thread: In Western culture, strong women have historically been imagined as threats requiring male conquest and control, and Medusa herself has long been the go-to figure for those seeking to demonize female authority. [17][18][19][20] The name "Medusa" itself is often used in ways not directly connected to the mythological figure but to suggest the gorgon's abilities or to connote malevolence; despite her origins as a beauty, the name in common usage "came to mean monster. [16], In the 20th century, feminists reassessed Medusa's appearances in literature and in modern culture, including the use of Medusa as a logo by fashion company Versace. Medusa has been depicted in several works of art, including: Medusa remained a common theme in art in the nineteenth century, when her myth was retold in Thomas Bulfinch's Mythology. The gods were well aware of this, and Perseus received help. Her name and aspects of her character are derived from Greek mythology as her hair has prehensile attributes like that of Medusa the Gorgon 's hair. In a late version of the Medusa myth, by the Roman poet Ovid (Metamorphoses 4.794–803), Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden, but when Poseidon had sex with her in "Minerva's (i.e. Weitere Bedeutungen sind unter, Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie. The story of how Medusa was killed by Perseus is one of the most thrilling stories in Greek mythology. When Perseus beheaded her, Pegasus, a winged horse, and Chrysaor, a giant wielding a golden sword, sprang from her body.[7]. Sie verfügen über Flügel und auch Schlangen kommen als Körperteile früh vor, die allerdings nicht unbedingt am Kopf, sondern beispielsweise auch an den Schultern ansetzen können. The Fall of Medusa V was a multi-sided military conflict fought on the Imperial Mining World of Medusa V in the Ultima Segmentum that was devoured by a Warp Storm in 999.M41. "And she's not deadly. One example is that of the flag and emblem of Sicily, together with the three legged trinacria. "[31], Medusa has sometimes appeared as representing notions of scientific determinism and nihilism, especially in contrast with romantic idealism. As well has having snakes for hair, she was given a serpent-like body and rattlesnake-like tail. Als aber Pallas Athene in einem ihrer Tempel Poseidon beim Liebesspiel mit Medusa überraschte (laut Ovid vergewaltigte er sie), war sie darüber so erzürnt, dass sie Medusa in ein Ungeheuer mit Schlangenhaaren, langen Schweinshauern, Schuppenpanzer, bronzenen Armen, glühenden Augen und heraushängender Zunge verwandelte. Auch in der Neuverfilmung von 2010 spielt Medusa eine Rolle. In 1940, Sigmund Freud's "Das Medusenhaupt (Medusa's Head)" was published posthumously. Numerous analyses have made us familiar with the occasion for this: it occurs when a boy, who has hitherto been unwilling to believe the threat of castration, catches sight of the female genitals, probably those of an adult, surrounded by hair, and essentially those of his mother. Probably the feminine present participle of. Role in God Of War. Claudels Perseus liegt die enthauptete, geflügelte Medusa zu Füßen; Perseus hält das Haupt in seiner Linken und lässt es in einen Spiegel in seiner Rechten blicken. The cover featured the image of the Gorgon Medusa by Froggi Lupton, which the editors on the inside cover explained "can be a map to guide us through our terrors, through the depths of our anger into the sources of our power as women. The Gorgon/Medusa image has been rapidly adopted by large numbers of feminists who recognize her as one face of our own rage. Larger enemies took longer to turn into stone than smaller ones. Athena's) temple,[6] Athena punished Medusa by transforming her beautiful hair into horrible snakes. The other two sisters were Stheno and Euryale. World Register of Marine Species. Medusa's Gaze was a power that was given to Kratos in God of War. Diese Seite wurde zuletzt am 16. It is in this context of the feminist reinterpretation of the Medusa myth that, in 2008, the Argentine-Italian sculptor Luciano Garbati created his sculpture Medusa with the Head of Perseus as a direct riposte to Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus with the Head of Medusa. Fact 25: The Medusa statue became a symbol of feminist rage. "[22], In issue three, Fall 1986 for the magazine Woman of Power an article called Gorgons: A Face for Contemporary Women's Rage, appeared, written by Emily Erwin Culpepper, who wrote that "The Amazon Gorgon face is female fury personified. Beide Skulpturen lassen sich als Symbole der Liebesbeziehung zwischen Claudel und Rodin interpretieren. Perseus approached Medusa slowly. This character has psychokinetic control over her hair, a power she obtained through Terrigenesis. Furthermore, the venomous vipers of the Sahara, in the Argonautica 4.1515, Ovid's Metamorphoses 4.770 and Lucan's Pharsalia 9.820, were said to have grown from spilt drops of her blood. [23], Elana Dykewomon's 1976 collection of lesbian stories and poems, They Will Know Me by My Teeth, features a drawing of a Gorgon on its cover. "[8] In the Odyssey xi, Homer does not specifically mention the Gorgon Medusa: Lest for my daring Persephone the dread, Medusa by Arnold Bocklin. The sculpture is a re-imagined version of the Medusa myth and was created by Luciano Garbatti. In one interview after another we were told that Medusa is 'the most horrific woman in the world' ... [though] none of the women we interviewed could remember the details of the myth. Auch Skulpturen von Camille Claudel (1864–1943) und Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) stellen Perseus und Medusa dar. Luciano Garbati’s Medusa with the Head of Perseus. The three Gorgon sisters; Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale, were children of the ancient marine deities Phorcys and his sister Ceto, (the spelling vary based on accounts), chthonic monsters from an ancient world.Their genealogy is shared with other sisters named the Graeae.Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound describes them thus: Im Spielfilm Kampf der Titanen aus dem Jahre 1981 gehört Medusa zu den von dem Trickspezialisten Ray Harryhausen animierten Figuren. Even in the ancient world, however, educated men doubted this was a literal origin. A story of victim blaming, one that she says sounds all too familiar in a current American context. Im Prozess der Wiedererinnerung und Heilung lenkt sie den Blick, der Darstellung Ovids folgend, auf die erlittene Gewalt der Figur: "Dann bin ich Medusa, die kleine Tochter der Erde und des Meeres, heimlich von Poseidon im Innern eines Tempels vergewaltigt, ich bin die entweihte und für schuldig befundene Unschuld, (…) die, der man den Kopf abschlägt, während sie schläft, deren verstümmelte Überreste ganze Heere in Schrecken versetzten, ich bin, was nach einer Vergewaltigung von einer Frau bleibt. "I've seen giant leeches, Taladar Grave Ticks larger than your hand, and even that poxy head lice I picked up in the bilges, but I ain't never seen anything like that thing." Sons of Medusa War Clan Iconography; the right knee plate and left pauldron are different between each clan. She claims "we must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing. Elizabeth Johnston's November 2016 Atlantic essay called Medusa the original 'Nasty Woman.' Medusa, Class Name Rider(ライダー, Raidā? Medusa was laid down in February 1862, she was launched in October 1864, and she was completed in September 1865. [28], Feminist theorist Hélène Cixous famously tackled the myth in her essay "The Laugh of the Medusa." "[22] Griselda Pollock analyses the passage from horrorism to compassion in the figure of the Medusa through Adriana Cavarero's philosophy and Bracha Ettinger's art and Matrixial theory. "[3], Der Titel dieses Artikels ist mehrdeutig. [30] "You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her," writes Cixous. Medusa and the Gorgons. The Gazelle class was the culmination of earlier unprotected cruiser and aviso designs, combining the best aspects of both types in what became the progenitor of all future light cruisers of the Imperial fleet. Its purpose was to act as a guardian for female power, keeping the book solely in the hands of women. Bloodwrack Medusae are horrid half-snake creatures that have served the whim and desires of Morathi , the Hag Queen of Naggaroth for many thousands of years. Ihre verzerrten Gesichter werden durch die große Mundpartie mit zahlreichen, oft spitzen Zähnen und heraushängender Zunge gekennzeichnet. Medusa is one of the first boss fights in God of War. Die „Medusa Rondanini“ des griechischen Bildhauers Phidias prägte den klassisch-schönen Medusentypus. Die Figur hat auch in die Populärkultur Einzug gehalten; so bildet ein Medusenkopf das Logo der italienischen Modefirma Versace. Das hätte für Polydektes den Weg zu Danaë gebahnt. In den Flügelschuhen eilte er über den Himmel an das Ende der Welt. Leveling the magic up further increased its freezing power and gained faster attacks with it. They were escaping a country torn asunder, harshly divided by war, revolution and eventual restoration. Medusa was the only one of the three who could ever be killed. During that time, Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon. Edward Burne-Jones' Perseus Cycle of paintings and a drawing by Aubrey Beardsley gave way to the twentieth century works of Paul Klee, John Singer Sargent, Pablo Picasso, Pierre et Gilles, and Auguste Rodin's bronze sculpture The Gates of Hell.[36]. He believes that one reason for her longevity may be her role as a protector, fearsome and enraged. Medusa and Crystal run from Agon and Rynda. As The Medusa sailed from Rochefort in 1816, many aboard saw bright futures ahead for themselves. Auch der Krieger Chrysaor, der manchmal wie Pegasos als Pferd dargestellt wird, entsprang dem Rumpf der Medusa. Medusa (griechisch Μέδουσα) ist in der griechischen Mythologie eine Gorgone, die Tochter der Meeresgottheiten Phorkys und Keto sowie die Schwester von Stheno und Euryale. Luckily, the military forces of the Imperium of Man were able to evacuate the entire surviving civilian population of the planet before it … Dabei schaute er nicht direkt auf ihr Gesicht, sondern lediglich auf dessen Abbild, das sich in Athenes Schild spiegelte. The Medusa story has also been interpreted in contemporary art as a classic case of rape-victim blaming, by the Goddess Athena. Medusa was said to be one of the children of Phorcys and Ceto, two primordial sea deities. Medusa in Classical Mythology. Als übel gesinnte Krieger bei seiner Hochzeit auf ihn zustürzten, deren Anführer die von Perseus befreite und ihm schon vor Jahren versprochene Andromeda heiraten wollte, brauchte Perseus ihnen nur das Haupt der Gorgo zu zeigen, und sie erstarrten wie Atlas zu Stein. Medusa is the leader of the Chaos Empire. Medusa lived with her two sisters, Stheno and Euryale, in a cave surrounded by statues. According to Hesiod 's Theogony, the Gorgons were the sisters of the Graiai and lived in the utmost place towards the night by the Hesperides beyond Oceanus. Die drei Schwestern Medusa, Stheno und Euryale, auch Gorgonen genannt, waren Kinder der chthonischen Götter Phorkys und seiner Schwester Keto und wurden in der griechischen Kunst ursprünglich als von Geburt an missgestaltet angesehen. She's beautiful and she's laughing. Beth Seelig analyzes Medusa's punishment from the aspect of the crime of having been raped rather than having willingly consented in Athena's temple as an outcome of the goddess' unresolved conflicts with her own father, Zeus. Those who gazed into her eyes would turn to stone. Medusa health: 4 bars standard attack:low Spells:See above Cost:500 gold 400 mana Training time:30 seconds Population:5 Sie besaß als einzige der drei Gorgonen eine sterbliche Natur. Inscribe the breath of the whole woman. World War I was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918. However, the rebellion failed and Medusa's parents were then executed by the king and queen at the time. The inclusion of Medusa in the center implies the protection of the goddess Athena, who wore the Gorgon's likeness on her aegis, as said above. The legend of Perseus beheading Medusa means, specifically, that "the Hellenes overran the goddess's chief shrines" and "stripped her priestesses of their Gorgon masks", the latter being apotropaic faces worn to frighten away the profane. Medusa is a tall black stick figure with an hourglass silhouette, tucked behind a green lavish cloak. Doch Perseus hatte Athene auf seiner Seite, die ihm einen verspiegelten Schild lieh. Classic Medusa, in contrast, is an Oedipal/libidinous symptom. Das Medusenhaupt im Beutel, flog Perseus mit Pegasos übers Meer nach Äthiopien, wo er die Königstochter Andromeda vor Keto errettete. The statue depicts the Gorgon Medusa standing nude with a defiant stare on … The historian Herodotus later placed them in Libya. Das Werk gilt als ein Höhepunkt der antiken Skulptur, da er die Medusa nach dem hellenistischen Ideal und ohne Schrecken darstellt. The truth was somewhere between those and is still continually reinterpreted. In their contemporary colour scheme they are depicted with emerald green power armour, white helms and black trim. It is generally believed that she was born at sea. M.E.D.U.S.A is an ancient, Old Tech super-weapon. [26] Beyond that, Medusa's story is, Johnston argues, a rape narrative. "[22], Medusa's visage has since been adopted by many women as a symbol of female rage; one of the first publications to express this idea was a feminist journal called Women: A Journal of Liberation in their issue one, volume six for 1978. Medusa (griechisch Μέδουσα) ist in der griechischen Mythologie eine Gorgone, die Tochter der Meeresgottheiten Phorkys und Keto sowie die Schwester von Stheno und Euryale. Seither trug sie Schlangen als Haare und versteinerte jeden, der sie erblickte. Sie besaß als einzige der drei Gorgonen eine sterbliche Natur. [32][33] In this interpretation of Medusa, attempts to avoid looking into her eyes represent avoiding the ostensibly depressing reality that the universe is meaningless. Their genealogy is shared with other sisters, the Graeae, as in Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, which places both trinities of sisters far off "on Kisthene's dreadful plain": Ihr Verlobter Phineus (Sohn des Belos) wollte trotz der tapferen Tat Andromeda nicht in des Helden Händen lassen, worauf im Zweikampf Perseus das Medusenhaupt einsetzte und so Phineus zu Stein erstarren ließ. She was so hideous that the mere sight of her could cause a man to be petrified into solid stone. Archetypal literary criticism continues to find psychoanalysis useful. According to the Greek poet Hesiod, Medusa lived on the island of Sarpedon in the Western Ocean near the Hesperides. The blood of Medusa also spawned the Amphisbaena (a horned dragon-like creature with a snake-headed tail). Harrison's translation states "the Gorgon was made out of the terror, not the terror out of the Gorgon."[8]. Als die Gorgonen in den Schlaf gesunken waren, pirschte sich Perseus mit Hilfe der Tarnkappe an Medusa heran. Mit einem gezielten Schlag enthauptete er Medusa und suchte das Weite, während hinter ihm das Geschrei und aufgebrachte Gezeter ihrer entsetzten Schwestern ertönte. Medusa is widely known as a monstrous creature with snakes in her hair whose gaze turns men to stone. In classical antiquity the image of the head of Medusa appeared in the evil-averting device known as the Gorgoneion. It served as a major plot device in the first book.. Design. Mit diesen Gorgonen wurde der Heros Perseus, der Sohn des Göttervaters Zeus und der Prinzessin Danaë, konfrontiert: Polydektes, der zu Perseus’ Missfallen Danaë nachstellte, forderte Perseus auf, ihm das Haupt der Medusa zu bringen, in der Hoffnung, Perseus werde dies – wie alle, die das bisher versucht hatten – nicht überleben. Stick War II: Order Empire. The three Gorgon sisters—Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale—were all children of the ancient marine deities Phorcys (or "Phorkys") and his sister Ceto (or "Keto"), chthonic monsters from an archaic world. Von Hermes bekam er geflügelte Schuhe, Nymphen gaben ihm eine Tarnkappe. Medusa war die schönste Gorgone, wurde jedoch von der zornigen Göttin Athene verflucht. SMS Medusa was a member of the ten-ship Gazelle class of light cruisers that were built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the late 1890s and early 1900s. Athene hoffte durch Perseus die Frevlerin Medusa gänzlich beseitigen zu können und erklärte ihm, wie er Medusa enthaupten könne, ohne ihr ins Angesicht blicken und deshalb zu Stein erstarren zu müssen. Although that power didn't work on other Gorgons, all other enemies were turned into stone. Bei dieser Skulptur sind zwei Schlangen unter dem Kinn zusammengebunden, deren Köpfe aus dem sonst natürlichen Haar hervorragen. ), is the Rider-class Servant of Sakura Matou in the Fifth Holy Grail War of Fate/stay night. Through the lens of theology, film, art, and feminist literature, my students and I map how her meaning has shifted over time and across cultures. (Pythian Ode 12). She argues that men's retelling of the narrative turned Medusa into a monster because they feared female desire. Medusa ist, wie auch ihre Schwestern, Stheno und Euryale, eine der drei Gorgonen und eine Tochter der Meeresgötter Keto und Phorkys. Weitere berühmte Darstellungen des „Haupt der Medusa“ stammen von Caravaggio und Peter Paul Rubens, das letztere mit Schlangen vom berühmten Tiermaler Frans Snyders. Two of the sisters were ugly and immortal, so he could do little to them, but Medusa was mortal and her looks were devastating. The model was one Harryhausen's most complex and in 2020 it was voted third favourite among his many creations.

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