My myth is the story of Medusa.
~ Once there was a young woman, more beautiful than any other in the land. She was able to attract any male she chose merely by looking at them. Men from all areas of Greece would flock just to spend one moment by her side. This girl’s name was Medusa.
One day, a male from a local village complimented her, claiming that she was more beautiful than the goddess Aphrodite. Instead of rejecting the compliment and asking forgiveness, Medusa bathed in the “power” of the compliment. While sitting on Olympus, Aphrodite hears this compliment. Her anger rising, the goddess comes down to earth and presents herself to Medusa, ordering her to apologize for the insult against her. Medusa merely laughed and claimed the Goddess to be petty and jealous. In response to Medusa’s insolence, Aphrodite turned the young woman into a horrible monster and cursing her eyes with the power to turn only men to stone.
Ashamed and scared of her new “power”, Medusa fled her village and went as far away from humans as possible. As time passed, loneliness and hatred filled her mind; turning the once kind and beautiful woman into an even uglier monster then Aphrodite had first produced. Eventually nothing remained of Medusa’s human counterpart and had started attacking any male that came within miles of her new home, hoping to ease her loneliness.
This changed one day when word of Medusa’s terror reached the ears of a young hero named Perseus. Gifted with tools from the gods, he had used Medusa’s own gaze against her and destroyed the monster, freeing the country of Greece from her wicked terror.~
I'm goin' for the idea that Aphrodite was wronged by Medusa and that Medusa is punished for her ideas and talkin' back to her.
1st idea is that Medusa is a firefly that lost her light to the bug zapper
2nd idea is that Medusa is a butterfly and Aphrodite is the bug spray and sprays her into a Moth
3rd idea is when I thought of the story of Snow White. So I twisted the story so that the Evil Queen (Medusa) and that she wronged the beauty of Snow White (Aphrodite). So Snow White turns her into the old hag.
1 comment:
nice ideas girl! the thing that bothers me though it might not even be an issue at all but it is that both medusa and Aphrodite were said to be beautiful and showing Aphrodite as a bug zapper light thing or can of bug spray isn't really an example of beauty. but then again in class we talked about shoe squishing bug (was that for your story?) and olga seemed to be into that idea. but then how would the shoe turn beautiful or maybe it doesn't have to. maybe it just wins and thats the way your interpreting your story.
so the bug loosing it's light is awesome but y would a bug loose just it's light a bug zapper would just kill it. wow im being a harsh bitch. (in the words of sorvino) forgive me. haha
i don't like the snow white one either i mean it's cute but can be confusing b/c it doesn't follow the story of s.w. that everyone knows and loves... um
i might be totally wrong and confusing myself but take what you can from that [if anything] <3
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