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guarder
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posted June 30, 2007 07:59 AM |
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The medusas are also from Greek mythology.they say there was a bautiful woman called Medusa with beautiful hair etc etc.But a jealous Goddess turned her into a monster that had snakes instead of hair and anyone who looked in her eyes was turned into stone.I'm not sure,but I think the monsters known as Gorgons were Medusa's sisters who also got turned into monsters.
Her sisters were actuly monster orginally. Medusa was a beautiful human transformed to the creature it is on H3, but they was actuly Gorgons, not the cow in fortress. Medusa was a pretty woman, but the parents(i don't remember who)want a ugly children like the sisters.
I don remember she was transformed of, but i think it was aphrodite or athena. And Medusa was mortal, but when she get transformed she be immortal
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Elvin
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posted July 01, 2007 12:52 AM |
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the minotaur was in a labyrinth and in order to keep this village from being destroyed they had to toss some people in for the minotaur to kill and eat now and then.
You've got things wrong there. First of all we are talking about the kingdom of Crete and the minotaur was a kind of curse from poseidon. He had sent a majestic bull to Minos that emerged from the sea. It was intended as a sacrifice in his name but Minos couldn't bring to harm such a strong animal. Then poseidon made his wife love the bull and the...offspring was the minotaur  Minos asked Daedalus a sharp mind at the time to build a labyrinth so that he would never see it again but also benefited from it.
As a compensation for peace with the Athenians he would ask for 7 guys and girls to be sent every year and he'd make them enter the labyrinth. Theseus was one of those guys but he volunteered so that he could end this punishment and he was indeed powerful enough(he was the strongest hero of Athens for a reason you know  ) to end the minotaur's menace.
It's not as if the minotaur was a liability for the cretans, it could not get out of the labyrinth anyway.
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morgan_le_fey
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posted July 12, 2007 02:30 AM |
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the minotaur was in a labyrinth and in order to keep this village from being destroyed they had to toss some people in for the minotaur to kill and eat now and then.
You've got things wrong there. First of all we are talking about the kingdom of Crete and the minotaur was a kind of curse from poseidon. He had sent a majestic bull to Minos that emerged from the sea. It was intended as a sacrifice in his name but Minos couldn't bring to harm such a strong animal. Then poseidon made his wife love the bull and the...offspring was the minotaur Minos asked Daedalus a sharp mind at the time to build a labyrinth so that he would never see it again but also benefited from it.
As a compensation for peace with the Athenians he would ask for 7 guys and girls to be sent every year and he'd make them enter the labyrinth. Theseus was one of those guys but he volunteered so that he could end this punishment and he was indeed powerful enough(he was the strongest hero of Athens for a reason you know ) to end the minotaur's menace.
It's not as if the minotaur was a liability for the cretans, it could not get out of the labyrinth anyway.
fascinating elvin...thank you for sharing your thoughts with me.
le fey
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