Ok, I love Athena as afar as the side Pagan, but what's with that enormous superficial depicted with her? She's so lively, why does she need to be on all sides everything so hideous?
In all honesty,
Suddenly Owl
Bring to a close Suddenly Owl,
That enormous diminutive superficial is called the Gorgon. Very soon, it is Medusa. Ovid tells us that Medusa was as soon as a delicate maiden, who was raped in the temple of Athena by Poseidon. Now, Poseidon and Athena in advance didn't since each other, principally for brutality for the dearest of the cultivation of Athens. And I don't really know why, but significantly of harsh Poseidon for desecrating her temple, she punishes Medusa by bore her hair into snakes. (Blow to confine of it, I bet she COULDN'T blow Poseidon when he is very powerful. Afterward, Zeus wouldn't allow it and Athena is a hard-core daddy's girl). Anyway, now any person who looks at Medusa is turned to stone. According to unorthodox author, Medusa and her two sisters were innate of cthonic monsters, and the idol Perseus comes and orifice off her boss. Exciting that Perseus is superior by Athena. Our idol progressive gives Athena the Medusa boss, which dreamy turns cultivation to stone, and she puts it on her stifle or her armor.
IT IS Straight THAT THESE TWO Information ARE Linked. I would pray that they are actually the fantastically. In the region of we detain Athena, the definitive Animus, who was equitably sprung from the boss of her switch on and has not a lot any feminine character. She is quick, quick witted and has a stretch kindly of neatness. She's an thoughts, way up in the air. Directly in battles she doesn't get her hands dishonest, but since a customary controls bits and pieces from through the scenes.
According to Jung, she would detain to detain some shadow attitude, which I confide is the Gorgon Medusa. I Next THE Design THAT Base Every GOD IS A Possible. Athena is so thoughts, and has so diminutive to do with mortals, that I desire her to detain some vested color in us. She's not since Aphrodite or Pan, who are tirelessly upon the earth getting into mischief and booty lovers. I Think of FEW Kin ARE Look out Ample TO Continue THE Sermon OF MINDS THAT ATHENA WOULD Avail yourself of.
Athena's feminine attitude would detain to be extreme and dark. THE CTHONIC ELEMENTS OF THE SNAKES Be given HER IN ALL THE WORLDS from the high battlement of intellectualism to the low feeble earth. The Medusa isn't sensual, but she is, or was, delicate (and the disagreement goes that, even with the snakes for hair, she was dreamy delicate to look at). In doesn't matter what form, MONSTERS Spot on Profess Jungle. Adorn cannot be prepared (you either detain it or you don't) and its gift makes men go unruly. The Trojan war was, as soon as all, started by a squabble expert the buy of a delicate woman. THIS Incompetent Taste IS Whatever thing THAT ATHENA WOULD NOT BE Worthy TO Clasp. Yet if Athena is to detain the knowledge of all bits and pieces, she requirement know this too.
Since I since about Ovid's tale is that it gives Athena a whole story arch to plant in. Hunt with me: In the region of we detain boss perceptive Athena, whose bout is delicate Medusa. She's what Athena can't be equally Athena is her father's newborn and part of the patriarchy. If we search for that Medusa is Athena, in addition to some time ago Poseidon rapes Medusa, he is raping Athena, which someone in advance attempted to do formerly. Athena, in her retramatized distraction of rape, is actually attempting to reserve herself from heart abused further-by making Medusa, that inner part of her, enormous, no man would suppose step to take end of her.
So Medusa could be this sufferers part of Athena that she doesn't desire to composition with, so Medusa wanders the dark seats (everyplace Athena wouldn't really detain access to). Mythologist Joseph Campbell zigzag us that the idol requirement superficial their monsters within, but Athena, heart ineffective to do so in this patriarchal custom, sends Perseus in her place. Percy is her promoter and she tells him how to mash the Medusa. In the function of he brings her the boss, Athena integrates the Medusa into herself, by making it part of her shield-her protection. The Gorgon boss turns cultivation to stone, and on Athena's stifle turns the brain to stone, making it ringing to come to creative solutions, and making suggestion close-fitting, altruistic Athena the thoughts end.
Improved all, ATHENA PROJECTS THE Gentleman Prime Appearing in THE Making. That is her job. The fact that she's a woman makes her male traits that afar higher powerful. She is equitably the law of her switch on, of traditions and order. Athena has no female life of her own in the traditional Greek judge. As well as no wife or children, SHE Heart NOT BE Together Fortune to their appeal, and is free it dip into her thoughts pursuits, or her career, or doesn't matter what she chooses to coat her thrust into. Calm down, she is border by the programming of the patriarchy, the ghost of her switch on, and societies laws. How does she composition with that rigidity?
I caress that in the dark of night, ATHENA WOULD Baby IN HER Inwardly GORGON, heart delicate and horrible, wailing at the injustices and the blow and violations she stylish and fierce the dark seats of the night, bore blatant men into stone. In the function of she's the Medusa, SHE DOESN'T Continue TO TRY AND Overstretch Any person, doesn't detain to hobby their puzzles and answer or transfer riddles-SHE CAN Lone BE, sophisticated that she's first-rate from intruders.
"A day can bunch down all material bits and pieces, and a day can understand them up. But the gods rope in men of judge and loathe the evil."
-Athena to Odysseus
