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Medusa

The Story

Medusa, a figure in Greek mythology, is one of the three Gorgons, female monsters known for their snake-like hair and ability to turn anyone that looks at her to stone. She is typically depicted with snakes instead of hair and is often featured on shields or as a severed head. While her sisters, Stheno and Euryale, were immortal, Medusa was mortal, making her vulnerable to heroes like Perseus

Background

Medusa comes from the ancient female priesthood which came from the legendary amazonian women who didn’t allow men to live with them, were horse riders and bow hunters, users of arrow poisons. would drag the arrow through snake venom salve they had smeared in their hair, chasing men and shooting them and freezing them with their venom from their hair, after which she could do what she wanted. ending in scalping him. ultimately after 3 scalps she was by rule old enough to have offspring… which would be obtained in the same way… that arrow poison was viagra. caused satyriasis / priapism…

So, therefore, Medusa was a myth about one monster, written about and referring to the older culture of many...

  • medusa depicted in the myth, is descended from medean amazonian scythian horse bow hunter culture
  • the hair wasn’t snakes, it had snake venom
  • she didn’t turn people to stone she froze them with venom…
  • those venoms were medicine too, depending how used… snakes around a caduceus…

Venom use started in midwivery to stem bleeding and help dilation, as antidotes for poisonous bites, and applied to combat and sacred visionary rites
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See also: Venom Use in Mysteries and Medicine

Later Connections

The baccants / maenids were also depicted with snakes in their hair. See also Baccants

Video

Medusa the Real History

A nice general overview of the mythical Medusa (without the mystery connection)
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Medusae Priestess Creating Her Antivenoms

Ammon U: Basic Training - Ancient Greek Lesson 2 [46:58]

Fantastic, you know what i'd do if i'm a priestess and 8 years old, getting up every morning, training to be one of the Medusae. You know what i'd do? I'd make lateral cuts in my arms, and then I'd take a linen bandage, and I'd impregnate it with drugs, that I then put over. And those drugs are the ones that we're all taking from the snakes. That's what they teach us to do, is to handle those snakes. Because if you're a good christian and you follow Jesus's precise words, you will take up snakes, and you'll start drinking death drugs, and they wont hurt you. Do you see?

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