Medusa: High Priestess of Athena

One of the most popular monsters of Greek Mythology, Medusa was a beautiful maiden with golden hair. She vowed to be celibate her entire life as a priestess of Athena until she fell in love with Poseidon. She went against her vow and married him.

For this, Athena punished her hideously. She turned Medusa into an ugly creature by making her eyes bloodshot and raging and her face hag like. The once lovely hair was morphed into poisonous, dangerous snakes. Her pure white milky skin turned a scary green hue. From then on she roamed, shamed, shunned and loathed by everyone.

Thence, by Athena’s curse, anyone she looked upon turned to stone… read more >