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Want to change the world in one generation? Do we authentically reclaim The Divine Feminine inside Allah that was acknowledged 1400 years ago? Medusa was a loyal woman who spent her youth training to become a priestess to a goddess she worshiped and believed was the strongest of all the Olympians. Portrait of a Priestess. Earlier versions relate that Medusa was born with serpent locks. Medusa was a temptress among the gods, and Poseidon had impregnated the mortal while in the temple of Athena. Geography. It is way past due that I use this platform for more than entertainment, especially now that I have learned so much since starting my job working for the OSU Sustainability Office. This article has not been reviewed by Odyssey HQ and solely reflects the ideas and opinions of the creator. An important message for us all!" Pausanias and Jones, W. 2002. I have never felt so connected to nature, and I get paid for it! 14 Aeschylus, Eumenides 736-8, in Deacy 2008:17, 15 Homer, Iliad 5.738 ff; Hesiod, Theogony 275-280; Pindar, Pythian 12.7-22; Strabo, Geography 8.6.21, References London: Routledge. The name Medusa means ‘sovereign female wisdom,’ ‘guardian / protrectress,’ ‘the one who knows’ or ‘the one who rules.’ It derives from the same Indo-European root as the Sanskrit Medha and the Greek Metis, meaning ‘wisdom’ and ‘intelligence.’ (1) Metis, ‘the clever one’, is Athena’s mother. Garcia, B. Laura holds an honours degree in Intercultural Studies (1986) and a diploma in Dance Movement Therapy (1990). What Arna offers in these pages are a permission slip to play, to make mistakes and to celebrate your right to make a mark." Breathing Life into the Women of Chayei Sarah by Ivy Helman. Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa and the Loggia dei Lanzi. 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Athena turning Medusa’s hair into snakes is almost always percieved as a punishment, and the theme of revenge is emphasized in different versions of the myth. She has also dedicated much time to primary research in Balkan and Greek villages, learning songs, dances, rituals and textile patterns which have been passed down for many generations, and which embody an age-old worldview of sustainability, community, and reverence for the earth. After an election night fraught with results wildly different from polling projections, Biden secured victory by winning back the "blue wall" states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin just four years after Trump became president by turning them red. Athena with Gorgoneion in her heart. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. The Homeric Hymns and Homerica. This collection of words and art from single mothers is at once enraging, inspiring, uncomfortable, moving and authentic. We have raised our voices, and we shouldn't lower them now. Stone, M. 1976, 1978. 5th C BCE. Medusa also thought it was a shame that the emple was wasted on someone who's plain out ugly, everybody started to run out of the temple overhearing what Medusa was saying affraid that if Athena heard her they didn't want to upset Athena. Poseidon vanished after he was done and left Medusa vulnerable and weak. Homer and Evelyn-White, H. G. 1914. Medusa’s Name Means To Protect This is the irony of it all. (2005). Listen up. (19). Her tale shows the cruelty of the Greek gods and how mankind is nothing but items to the gods. ( Log Out / Cambridge, Mass. Her name meant "guardian" and "protectress." (16) Like Medusa, she was originally a great cosmic Goddess of heaven and earth, the deity of life, death and regeneration who was venerated in Old Europe for thousands of years. ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers: Notes Towards a Preliterary History of Women’s Archetypes.’ Feminist Studies 4, February 1978. p.168. But who knows the truth behind this woman? ( Log Out / I suppose that Athena’s arranged killing of Medusa represents the New Moon being replaced by a new cycle. And today still, we demonize powerful women, especially in politics - while the baby-man in the White House claims he is victim of a witch hunt. A big part of my job right now is leading OSU's celebration of America Recycles Day on Sunday, November 15!