True Origin of Medusa – The lady with the snake hair? Or Dreadlocks?
Medusa, a real woman, was the Afrikan serpent-goddess said to have worn a pouch around her waist containing live snakes that represented wisdom and renewal. She was said to have carried the original Gorgon mask to frighten off the unskilled, and it was painted red to symbolize the power of menstrual blood with “gruesome glaring eyes, bared fanged teeth and, like the Hindu Goddess Kali, a protruding tongue” Goddess Inspired. Her name derived from Egyptian Maat (Truth) “which also gives us the words medicine, mathematics, and Sanskrit medha (female wisdom)”. “The Gorgons were a trinity whose names were Medusa, Stheino, and Eurayle- or Wisdom, Strength, and Universality”. Blacked Out through White Wash
Afrikan cultures were unfamiliar to the people known as Europeans, and many of the Greek mythological creatures originate from Afrikan civilizations. The snake hair assessment, assuming these people(Greeks) did not know the name of the hairstyle, referred to it as snake hair later creating classic myths depicting a goddess that actually represented truth and was not a villain, into a monster, taught in schools as Greek mythology.
Snake hair and Dreadlocks?
The original, real life Medusa, supposedly had dreads and the origin of dreads through ancient discoveries existed before the fictional Medusa character was recreated. She was the snake Goddess which is how Europeans formed their version of a monster with hair of snakes, with a face that would turn any man to stone because of fear, which developed from the Gorgon mask she carried with her.
The ancient, classical, Greek version of Medusa may go back even further and be based on a folk tradition that dates to the Mycenaean Period. The historical King Perseus founded a new dynasty in Mycenae in 1290 BC. At the time that North Africa’s moon goddesses were usurped by the patriarchy of Greek invaders.
Medusa was a serpent goddess in African. Tales say she wore a pouch around her waist that heldlive snakes representing wisdom andrenewal. The Gorgon mask was supposed to frighten off invaders uneducated in the ways of the area. She reportedly had “gruesome glaring eyes, bared fanged teeth and, like the Hindu Goddess Kali, a protruding tongue.”
The Sahara desert in western Africa at the time was green but drying, leading to mass migrations of the people. When the Hellenes overran the goddess shrines, they stripped the priestesses of their Gorgon masks, which may have fed the myth or the beheading.
The name Medusa comes from the Egyptian word for truth: Maat and the Sanskrit word for female wisdom: medha.
Reports of Medusa’s horrible face, serpent hair and the ability to turn people into stone along with her magical blood, correlate with the ancient taboo of menstrual blood. Ancient people believed that a menstrual blood was the source of life and death and if a menstruating woman looked a man, he could turn to stone.
According to AP Art History, “Medusa was a Sun Goddess and representative of women’s genital mysteries. Snakes are generally connected to the Sun in mythology; obviously as in Egypt, or more subtly as the guardian of the solar apples of the Hesperides. Just as Athena would later, Medusa ruled the ocean, ships, and all the skills and arts dealing with them. Her petrifying gaze was the contradictory Sun and the keen vision of the ship’s pilot. The snakes standing erect over her forehead are often her favoured blue cobras, looking like the headdress later worn by Bast, or like dreadlocked hair.”
The serpent hair, described by the Greeks, could have been dreadlocks. Athena, another character who appears to have emigrated to Greek culture from Africa, was also depicted as black before undergoing the evolution of cultural change.
NOTE ON TEXT — By Anu Mauro
Another notable African element relates to the battle with Medusa which takes place in Lybia where Perseus ‘creates’ the Atlas mountains (located in North West Africa) by turning the Titan Atlas into stone. Most of the action in the myth therefore seems to take place either on the North African Coast or along the nearby coast of Canaan before it moves on to Greece. Below Graves also provides a more geo-political version of the Medusa battle. — Anu Mauro
NOTE ON TEXT — By Robert Graves
As for the Gorgon Medusa, they say that she was a beautiful daughter of Phorcys, who had offended Athene, and led the Libyans of Lake Tritonis in battle. Perseus, coming from Argos with an army, was helped by Athene to assassinate Medusa. He cut off her head by night, and buried it under a mound of earth in the market place (back) at Argos. This mound lies close to the grave of Perseus’s daughter Gorgophone– Robert Graves
NOTE ON TEXT — By Anu Mauro
More Africa connections are revealed by the fact that Perseus stops in Egypt on his way home. Why? …..according to Herodotus to ‘visit the home of his mother’s people’ …..then he takes a detour by way of the Palestine coast which is just a short boat ride from the Egyptian shore where hardly surprising for the time…. an Ethiopian king and queen also rule…. and the story continues from there.
NOTE ON TEXT — By Herodotus
” The common Greek tradition is that the Dorian kings as far back as Perseus the son of Danae are as they stand in the accepted Greek lists. ……If on the other hand we trace the ancestry of Danae, the daughter of Acrisius we find that the Dorian chieftains are genuine Egyptians. This is the accepted Greek version of the genealogy of the Spartan Royal house.” –Herodotus, –Privilidges of Spartan Kings Pg 406 Herodotus- the Historiess Penguin
Classsics.
All in all therefore, to even suggest that there are no Ethiopic strains to this Andromeda story is somewhat disingenuous. Such an attitude must be attributed to either deliberate attempts at obfuscation or worse….alarming ignorance among those who should know better.
Those who are putting forward the anti-ethiopic argument either have absolutely NO idea of the contents of the ancient literary classics. Or,they are engaging in yet another attempt to castrate old Chronos who by the way was known to be both a Titan as well as an Ethiop. It is Chronos who also came to be called Uranus. They need to understand that even the castration of Uranus has Ethiopic connections. .
Moreover the alleged castration is not necessarily metaphorical especially if as Robert Graves indicates it is very likely that:
” some of the victors in the battles for ancient Greece had originated in East Africa where, to this day, Galla warriors (of Ethiopia) carry a miniature sickle into battle to castrate their enemies; there are close affinities between East African religious rites and those of early Greece.”—Robert Graves
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