Photographic Print. Graffiti street art Medusa Gorgon mural on Haight Street, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco.
The Phoenix mural is also by Lango and can be viewed in this photographic section. I photographed this Gorgon mural by Lango in 2011 at Masonic Street on Haight Street in the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood, which was the epicentre of hippie culture in the 1960s. Even though I hate snakes, this mural was spectacular, I don't know why it was painted over with a poor replacement by Apex. In Greek mythology, Medusa was a celibate priestess of Athena with golden
hair but after being wooed
by
Poseidon,
having sex with him on
the floor of a temple to Athena, for this offence, the goddess punished her. Each wavy
lock of her beautiful hair that had charmed Poseidon was changed into
a venomous snake, her beautiful eyes turned into
blood shot, furious orbs and her white skin turned into a horrible tinge of green. Anyone who looked into her eyes was turned
into stone. She
was one of the 3 Gorgon sisters but only Medusa
was mortal. Deliverance came to her in death when she was beheaded by
the hero Perseus using a mirrored shield from Athena, gold, winged
sandals from Hermes, a sword from Hephaestus and Hades's helm of
invisibility. He then used her head as a weapon to slay Cetus, it retained its ability
to turn onlookers to stone, until he gave it to the goddess Athena to
place on her shield. In classical antiquity the image of the head of
Medusa appeared on the Gorgoneionin, a device to avert evil.
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