Medusa is the instinctive, unexamined part, terrifying and terrified in return, driven by the dictates of our Nature and our state of ignorance. Athena is the resident Wisdom, the realized Awareness.
This is very interesting! I'm familiar with the myth of Medusa in a superficial sense but this exegesis really brings some of its deeper layers into focus. And, too, I suspect the versions I've read were based on Ovid which, as this writer points out, is already a reframing in itself.
This is very interesting! I'm familiar with the myth of Medusa in a superficial sense but this exegesis really brings some of its deeper layers into focus. And, too, I suspect the versions I've read were based on Ovid which, as this writer points out, is already a reframing in itself.
Wonderful breakdown!