Medusa

=**Medusa**= =__Type of Allusion__= Medusa is the Allusion is mythological

=__What Medusa means__= Medusa is a name conferred upon a girl. It is derived from the Greek word "medomai" which means "to play or to contrive.. " Myth has it that that it was the name of one of the three Gorgons or repulsive looking women with snakes as locks of hair. She was so powerful and dreaded that anyone on whom she cast her eyes, would turn to stone. She was slain only when the Greek mythical hero Perseus looked at her reflection in his shield to kill her.

Alternative name for a jellyfish the creature received its name through a fancied resemblance between it's tentaccles and the snake hair of the fearsome medusa one of the gordons according to legend she acquired her loathsome appearnce.As punishment for affending the goddness.Athena by consoriting with poseidan in the temple of athenn.Medusa was finally slaih by perseas when he cut off her head. Itrapidly emerged that the affair was more complicated than first imagined with as many tentacles as a Medusa.

Medusa was on of the gorgons and they are three, The gorgons each with wings and snaky hair. Most norrible to mortals when no man shall behold and draw again the breath of life. At them was turned instantly into stone.It seemed that persons had been led by his angry pride into making an empty beast. No man anaides could kill Medusa. Medusa's sister were immortal but she wasn't