Pagan Portals - Medusa: Guardian, Serpent, Survivor

A guide to working with Medusa, her mythology, and her role in feminism, art and culture through the ages.

She was never the monster... Long before Perseus struck her down, Medusa was a guardian, a serpent-crowned goddess who turned away evil and watched over thresholds. Patriarchal myth recast her as the monstrous feminine – beautiful, cursed, and vilified for her own rape. But Medusa has never gone quietly into the pages of mythology. She lives on in the rage of the silenced, in every vict...