Tsitsi la Medusa la njoka limamuika kukhala losiyana ndi anthu ena amthano.
Medusa ndi chimodzi mwa zizindikiro zosayembekezeka kwambiri za miyambo yakale ya ku Girisi. Mmodzi mwa alongo atatu a Gorgon, Medusa ndiye mlongo yekha amene sanali wakufa. Iye amadziwika ndi tsitsi lake la njoka ndi maso ake, zomwe zimapangitsa awo omwe amamuyang'ana kuti aponye miyala.
Temberero
Nthano imanena kuti Medusa poyamba anali wansembe wamkazi wokongola wa Athena yemwe adatembereredwa chifukwa chophwanya lumbiro lake la kusagwirizana. Sali mulungu wamkazi kapena Olympian , koma kusiyana kwake pa nthano yake amati adagwirizanitsa limodzi.
Pamene Medusa anali ndi chiyanjano ndi mulungu wa panyanja Poseidon , Athena anamulanga. Anatembenuza Medusa kukhala chiwopsezo choopsya, ndikupangitsa tsitsi lake kuti likhale njoka zakuthengo ndipo khungu lake linasinthika. Aliyense amene anatsekera maso ndi Medusa anasandulika kukhala mwala.
Msilikali Perseus anatumizidwa pa chilakolako chopha Medusa. Anatha kugonjetsa Gorgon pomuchotsa pamutu pake, zomwe amatha kuchita pomenyana ndi chidziwitso chake. Pambuyo pake adagwiritsa ntchito mutu wake ngati chida chothandizira adani kuti aponye miyala. Chithunzi cha mutu wa Medusa chinaikidwa pa zida za Athena kapena zisonyezedwa pa chishango chake.
Line la Medusa
Mmodzi mwa alongo atatu a Gorgon, Medusa ndiye yekha amene sanali wakufa. Alongo ena awiri anali Stheno ndi Euryale. Gaia nthawi zina amatchedwa mayi wa Medusa; zolemba zina zimatchula milungu yoyambirira yam'madzi Phorcys ndi Ceto monga makolo a Gorgons atatu. Amakhulupirira kuti iye anabadwira panyanja.
Wolemba ndakatulo wachi Greek Hesiod analemba kuti Medusa ankakhala pafupi ndi Hesperides ku Western Ocean pafupi ndi Sarpedon. Herodotus wolemba mbiriyo adanena kuti kunyumba kwake ndi Libya.
Nthawi zambiri amamuona kuti sali pabanja, ngakhale kuti adagona ndi Poseidon. Nkhani imodzi imati anakwatira Perseus. Chifukwa cha kugwirizana ndi Poseidon, akuti akuti anali ndi Pegasus , kavalo wamaphiko, ndi Chrysaor, yemwe anali wamphamvu pa lupanga la golidi.
Nkhani zina zidati ana ake awiri adachokera kumutu wake wouma.
Medusa ku Temple Lore
Kale, iye analibe kachisi aliyense wodziwika. Zimanenedwa kuti kachisi wa Artemis ku Corfu akuwonetsera Medusa mu mawonekedwe achiyambi. Amawonetsedwa ngati chisonyezero cha chonde chobvala mkanjo wa njoka zamphongo.
Masiku ano, chithunzi chake chojambula chimakongoletsa thanthwe pamtunda wa Red Beach wotchuka kunja kwa Matala , Crete. Ndiponso, mbendera ndi chizindikiro cha Sicily zimagwiritsa ntchito mutu wake.
Medusa mu Zojambula ndi Ntchito Zolembedwa
Ku Girisi wakale, pali maumboni angapo otchulidwa nthano ya Medusa ndi olemba akale Achigiriki Hyginus, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Dionysios Skytobrachion, Herodotus, ndi olemba Achiroma Ovid ndi Pindar. Pamene awonetsedwa muzojambula, nthawi zambiri mutu wake umasonyezedwa. Iye ali ndi nkhope yayikulu, nthawizina ndi ziphuphu, ndi njoka za tsitsi. Mu mafano ena, ali ndi ululu, lilime lopachikidwa, ndi maso opunduka.
Ngakhale kuti Medusa amaonedwa kuti ndi wonyansa, nthano imodzi imanena kuti inali kukongola kwake kwakukulu, osati kuipa kwake, komwe kunawopsya onse owona. Mpukutu wake "wodabwitsa kwambiri" amakhulupirira akatswiri ena kuti aziyimira fupa la munthu lomwe laphwanyika pang'ono ndi mano omwe amayamba kusonyeza kudzera m'milomo yotayika.
Chithunzi cha Medusa chinkaganiziridwa kukhala chitetezo.
Zakale zamakedzana, zishango zamkuwa, ndi zitsulo zili ndi zithunzi za Medusa. Nthano zodziwika kwambiri zomwe zauziridwa ndi Medusa ndi mbiri ya Perseus yokhudzana ndi chiwonetsero ndi Leonardo da Vinci, Benvenuto Cellini, Peter Paul Rubens, Gialorenzo Bernini, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, ndi Salvador Dali.
Medusa mu Pop Culture
Mutu wa njoka, fano lochititsa mantha la Medusa limadziwika nthawi yomweyo m'chikhalidwe chotchuka. Nthano ya Medusa idakondwereranso kuyambira pamene nkhaniyi inalembedwa mu mafilimu a "Titashana a Titans" mu 1981 ndi 2010, ndi "Percy Jackson ndi Olympians," komanso mu 2010, komwe Medusa akuwonetsedwa ndi wojambula ngati Uma Thurman.
Kuwonjezera pa chinsalu cha siliva, chiwerengero cha fano chimawoneka ngati chikhalidwe pa TV, mabuku, matepi, masewera a kanema, maseĊµero a masewero, kawirikawiri ngati wotsutsa. Komanso, khalidweli lakumbukiridwa ndi nyimbo ndi UB40, Annie Lennox, ndi Anthrax ya band.
Chizindikiro cha chojambula ndi mafashoni Versace ndi mutu wa Medusa. Malingana ndi nyumba yokonza, idasankhidwa chifukwa ikuimira kukongola, luso, ndi filosofi.