The Greeks and heroes of Greek mythology

 

The fight against jellyfish

She was beheaded by Perseus, who then used her head as a weapon until he gave it to the goddess Athena to put on her shield, the aegis. Since classical Greek antiquity, the image of Medusa's head is represented in the contraption that drives away the evil known as Gorgoneion. The myth may have originated in the abolition of the cults of the goddess Moon caria and the Libyan Neith in which the priestesses wore masks of gorgons.

Perseus passed through northwest Africa next to the Titan Atlas, who was there holding the sky, and transformed it into stone. Similarly, the corals of the Red Sea were said to have formed from the blood of Medusa that splashed the algae when Perseus left the petrifying head by the beach during his brief stay in Ethiopia, where he saved and married the beautiful Princess Andromeda.