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picture29 Sep 2003 @ 00:06, by Max Sandor

excerpt from a paper by Alicia Le Van:

The GORGON MEDUSA

Her Name and Origin

Medusa means "sovereign female wisdom," in Sanskrit it'sMedha, Greek Metis, Egyptian Met or Maat.

Medusa was actually imported into Greece from Libya where she was worshipped by the Libyan Amazons as their Serpent-Goddess. Medusa (Metis) was the destroyer aspect of the Great Triple Goddess also called Neith, Anath, Athene or Ath-enna in North Africa and Athana in 1400 c. BC Minoan Crete.

Medusa was originally an aspect of the goddess Athene from Libya where she...

...was worshipped by the Libyan Amazons as their Serpent-Goddess. Medusa (Metis) was the destroyer aspect of the Great Triple Goddess also called Neith, Anath, Athene or Ath-enna in North Africa and Athana in 1400 c. BC Minoan Crete. ...

In her images, her hair sometimes resembles dread locks, showing her origins in Africa. There she had a hidden, dangerous face. It was inscribed that no one could possibly lift her veil, and that to look upon her face was to glimpse ones own death as she saw your future.

Medusa as an Archetype

Medusa has historically been seen as the archetype of the nasty mother, however she is far more complex. She symbolizes the following:

Sovereign female wisdom. The female mysteries. All the forces of the primordial Great Goddess: The Cycles of Time as past, present and future. The Cycles of Nature as life, death and rebirth. She is universal Creativity and Destruction in eternal Transformation. She is the Guardian of the Thresholds and the Mediatrix between the Realms of heaven, earth and the underworld. She is Mistress of the Beasts. Latent and Active energy.

Connection to the earth. The union of heaven and earth. She destroys in order to recreate balance. She purifies.

She is the ultimate truth of reality, the wholeness beyond duality. She rips away our mortal illusions. Forbidden yet liberating wisdom. The untamable forces of nature. As a young and beautiful woman she is fertility and life. As crone she consumes by devouring all on the earth plane. Through death we must return to the source, the abyss of transformation, the timeless realm. We must yield to her and her terms of mortality. She reflects a culture in harmony with nature.

... [end of quote]

much, much more at: Women in Antiquity from Alicia Le Van Final Paper 5/7/96



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29 Sep 2003 @ 04:26 by ashanti : People of the South
I LOVE this: "She reflects a culture in harmony with nature.....". Oh yeah! :-)
Thanks for article and link.... :-)  

29 Sep 2003 @ 21:28 by Helô @200.157.112.78 : Medusa Revisited
By deeply remembering goddess even if this could happens by reading texts related,is of such a strenght that one could rebirth each time one feels like dead. Specially for womem who has forgotten her powers, as oblitered throughout ages.Don't intent to kill your beloved, just be aware when you are getting weak if there is a power that has been delivered for a patriarchal remaining issue.I want you to Know we can make you feel alive, Medusa.I saw part of your face.Nice and useful quote,Max. Good work, Alicia. :-)  

30 Sep 2003 @ 16:40 by bruce kodish @24.205.69.22 : My Visit from Medusa
My mother died in the evening, 5 years ago.
She had been surrounded by family at home and had a peaceful passing.
We had felt a sense of the pain and holiness of dying as we watched it unfold to
completion.

That night I had a dream, where I looked inside the face of the Woman Death, with the utmost terror that I have ever felt. The face came away. Underneath the skull--
snakes, vermin crawling --a horrible vision.
And yet when I awoke I had a sense of strengh and peace
that I have seldom felt in my life.
I knew what the vision represented was a part of life in the universe.  

10 Nov 2003 @ 14:34 by michele leigh palmer @161.6.50.46 : medusa
For about four years i have been wearing a pendant with the visage of medusa. I feel a great sence of peace wearing this necklace, despite the strange looks i sometimes receive.  

31 Aug 2005 @ 02:46 by kiantra hall @24.127.137.91 : medusa necklace
i would like to know how to get the necklace i dont have a credit card i want to send a money order but i need a address and whom i make it out to along with amout plus shipping and handeling  

31 Mar 2015 @ 03:18 by Alicia Le Van @24.52.183.224 : MEdusa
Funny I am just discovering my work quoted here now.
Thank you for your appreciation and recognition of this ancient symbology and eternal universal power and strength that is available to us all.  

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