Beastly Beauties - Medusa Bust <HKD>

HMO’s Medusa Statue is a Mythical Creatures comes from Greek Mythology, She was a Gorgon, a chthonic monster, and a daughter of Phorcys and Ceto. Like we know Gazing directly upon her would turn onlookers to stone. She was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who thereafter used her head as a weapon until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield. In classical antiquity the image of the head of Medusa appeared in the evil-averting device known as the Gorgonian. There’s another story about the origin of Medusa. it was said that Medusa was known as a beautiful virgin priestess in Athena’s temple. but she was raped by Poseidon on Athena’s Temple, This makes the Athena angry, she changed Medusa ‘s hair of snakes and Curse Medusa so who ever gazing directly into her would turn to a stone.