For you, I drew Medusa. The image is a winged hose rising from a red background, with images layered into the red. It almost looked like a unicorn to me at first glance, because the bright line of one wing is in just that spot. This is a link to a copy of the image.
Seddon Boulet apparently chose a horse image because the myths tell us that when Medusa was slain, the winged horse, Pegasus, sprang forth from her blood. Her name has the same root as medicine and measure, and derives from a Green work meaning to protect or to rule over.
This makes her an example of the re-writing of stories to show a powerful woman as ugly and evil; the myth could even be seen as supplanting the powerful moon Goddess, associated with menstrual blood, creativity, birth, and death with an idealized male figure (Pegasus), who is, as she was in earlier times, associated with instinct, wisdom, imagination, life force, and intuitive understanding.
A lot of our Western history shows evidence of this happening over and over both in mythology and in life.
And once a woman has been defeated, who is there to say, "wait--she wasn't an ugly, horrifying Gorgon1"--or even if someone does try to speak up, who will listen? There's a beautiful winged stallion here, after all, isn't it obvious that we have to wipe the monster's nasty blood off of him?
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Medusa
Date: 2017-01-28 01:12 am (UTC)https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjfqajtzuPRAhWn5oMKHUI8DkkQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fkkellyhecker%2Fsusan-seddon-boulet%2F&psig=AFQjCNGnTuWy71uFvMMdoPnpDa58R2yTsw&ust=1485650852454929
Seddon Boulet apparently chose a horse image because the myths tell us that when Medusa was slain, the winged horse, Pegasus, sprang forth from her blood. Her name has the same root as medicine and measure, and derives from a Green work meaning to protect or to rule over.
This makes her an example of the re-writing of stories to show a powerful woman as ugly and evil; the myth could even be seen as supplanting the powerful moon Goddess, associated with menstrual blood, creativity, birth, and death with an idealized male figure (Pegasus), who is, as she was in earlier times, associated with instinct, wisdom, imagination, life force, and intuitive understanding.
A lot of our Western history shows evidence of this happening over and over both in mythology and in life.
And once a woman has been defeated, who is there to say, "wait--she wasn't an ugly, horrifying Gorgon1"--or even if someone does try to speak up, who will listen? There's a beautiful winged stallion here, after all, isn't it obvious that we have to wipe the monster's nasty blood off of him?