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Medusa-Triple-Goddess

Medha (Sanscrit), Metis (Greek), Maat (Egyptian) Anath (Libyan) are variations of Medusa-Triple-Goddess

“……Bright as the rainbow’s hue,
Her halcyon plumage gleamed with green and gold,
And tender roseate hues of sunset, mixed
With creamy white, and delicate sapphire tints
lovely exceedingly. Her folded wings
Were eyed like the peacock’s feathers, and her hair
Of wavy gold, unbraided, on the ground
Floated in silken cataracts: yet each tress
Was twined with hissing snakes: her long white arms
Were fairs as Aphrodite’s, yet her hands were brazed claws
And brass the glittering scales
That clothed the sensuous outlines of her flanks
In amour horrid as a panoply
Of Python, hugest of the serpent race,
That from the slime in old Deucalion’s days
Sprang like a pestilence.”

From Hesiod, Theogeny (ii 270-294)

The Birth of the Gorgons
“And again, Ceto bare to Phoreys; the fair cheeked Graiae, three sisters grey from their birth; and both deathless gods and men who walk on earth call them Graiae.
Pemphredo, the well-clad, and saffron – robed Enyo and the Gorgons (three of three) "who dwell beyond the glorious ocean in the frontier lands where are the clear–voiced Hesperides…".
The Gorgons of Greek mythology were three sisters, the daughters of Phorcus (Phorcy, Phoreys) and Cete (Ceto).
Their names were Medusa (cunning one), Stheno (strong) and Euryale (wide roaming) but only Medusa was mortal, and she alone is meant when the Gorgon is spoken of singly.

According to the generally received account, these sisters where so frightful that they turned to stone all those on whom they fixed their eyes. Their heads were covered with threatening vipers, their hands were brass and all over their bodies were impenetrable scales and their teeth as long as wild boar.

Writers differ on this point and some have given a precisely opposite interpretation of the Gorgons’ property of turning their beholder into stone; which is far from being frightful and repulsive, these sisters possessed and extraordinary beauty which so amazed and delighted the seer, that he remained entranced and motionless.

It is related the dreaded Medusa was once a beautiful and charming maiden with many eager lovers who sought to win her hand. Lovely as her features were, her crowning attraction was her glorious, golden hair which waved and shone in rippling ringlets.

Neptune was counted among her admirers and raped her in the Temple of Minerva; to whom this act was particularly abhorrent.
Only punishing Medusa, she turned her shining hair to scaly serpents that its beauty might never tempt again, and decreed that all who looked upon Medusa’s head in future should be transformed into statues of stone.

Not content with this punishment, she inspired and aided Perseus to kill the Gorgons. Thus the head of Medusa-Triple-Goddess was fixed by Perseus upon the shield of Minerva which he had used to strike at the Gorgons without looking upon them thus remaining immune to their powers.
He then presented it to the Goddess Minerva; its power still able to petrify all who looked upon it.

The Winged Medusa
Medusa-Triple-Goddess is often shown as double-winged. Around her waist is the double entwining serpents. Issuing from her head are four serpents, her arms raised in the ‘as above, so below’ posture.

One image shows Perseus (looking away) holding a sword to Medusa’s throat whilst Hermes (on right) holds his ‘mercury/caducues’ staff and looks on.

According to legend, Polydectes told Perseus he would have the head of a Gorgon more than anything in the world. Perseus decided to give the head as a wedding present.
Hermes met Perseus and gave him a sword that wouldn’t be bent or broken by Medusa’s scales.
Pallas Athena also aided by giving him her shield of polished bronze & told him to use the shield as a mirror so he could see Medusa without looking at her. Perseus found the Gorgons asleep and cut off Medusa’s head.

From her spilt blood arose Pegasus, so called because he was born near springs (pegae) of Ocean. The winged militant steed creates serpents in the earth with the touch of his hoof. Pegasus also struck Mt. Parnassus and caused the fountain of Hippocreme to gush forth: later the muses plunged into its waters.

Perseus mounts Pegasus and goes to the rescue to Andromeda, whom is held captive by her mother, the sea Dragon.Bellerophon also captures Pegasus and rode on his back to conquer the chimera (another dragon species). After this rider’s death, Pegasus swiftly lifted itself to the sky and took his place amongst the stars.

Medusa-Triple-Goddess ascends (becomes winged and immortal) with this transformation ‘whilst her head becomes the central ornament of Minerva’s shield and was recognized as the symbol of divine wisdom.’
This is the act of sacrifice of the serpent so the dove can fly.
Also Chrysaor (from aor –the golden blade) the one eyed giant is borne from her blood.

Symbology of Medusa
An ancient vase (a pithos, seventh century BC. Greece) shows Perseus slaying Medusa-Triple-Goddess. She is depicted with a woman’s head, torso & breasts and the body of a horse (or other four-legged mammal).
This interpretation of Medusa represents her ‘sphinx’ like manifestation. If we piece all her images together, she is a multi-limbed mammalian, winged, (multi?) human headed reptile. Medusa is a dragon.

Medusa’s blood it itself parallels the serpent energies within the human body. The blood from her right vein heals and nourishes, from the left serpent it kills.
Medusa’s hair created coral after the Nerieds brought fresh juicy twigs to cover the fatal head which they and Perseus tried to bury after his battle to save Andromeda.
"…turning to sprays of coral, the nymphs kept their petrifying seeds so that they might propagate this new wonder in the ocean depths."

Another image picture of Medusa-Triple-Goddess shows her guise of the ‘gorgon’. There are vital clues however as to the full extent of her power.
She is a giant compared to the lion. The lion as is a pet and this image is the prototype for the traditonal ‘strength’ tarot card in which the maiden subdues the lion.

Medusa-Triple-Goddess is known as the Serpent Goddess of the Libyan Amazons. Her hair as dreadlocks reveal her African origins. As does her alliance with lions; known as King of the Jungle. Her waist shows the entwined double serpents, symbol of life and death. Her wide staring eyes denotes she sees ALL.

Remaining engravings of Medusa-Triple-Goddess show Medusa’s head ‘from either side of whose forehead proceeds a wing; and two serpents intersecting one another below the chin in a nodus Herculis, appear over the forehead, looking at each other.
As the face receeds, the Egyptian emblem of consecration comes forth – the serpents and the winged circle.

The circle is framed by the bodies of the serpents. The Gorgon is therefore a caduceus without the staff’. She is in fact the Encircled Serpent.

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