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I think this group can help me answer these two questions (they are intended to be serious).

1) Has anyone here ever heard of a MALE counterpart to a Medusa? If you have what name was it known by? I have heard rumers of such a mythology, but I have never been able to confirm it.

2) We all know that a white horse with a single spire horn is known as Unicorn. Is there a name for a black horse with a single spire horn; or do those here suspect that the name would still be "Unicorn"?

Thank your for your consideration to these questions.

― Peter Kelley (MstrPBK), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.daughterofthenight.com/tla56d.jpg

― C J (C J), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

A pedant writes: you mean "a gorgon", not "a Medusa"

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:37 (nineteen years ago)

There was one male Gorgon in Greek mythology.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:39 (nineteen years ago)

The male gorgon was called Nanas. A black unicorn is just a black unicorn as far as I can tell.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

i love mythical animals. but i hate regular animals. what does that mean?

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

What about the paedo dogs? They aren't mythical.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

Archel OTM.

Now that we have thoroughly disposed of the original question, it must be time to veer into the digressions. For example, how many mythical animals include recognizable features of a lion vs. how many include features of an eagle?

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

(gentle smile) Who said anything about the original question being disposed of ....

Forest PInes and ALLAH FROG: Gorgons .... I had forgotten about those beings ... but i had never associated them with Medusas, but rather with the forms of death; Umm will have look at that angle. ... After looking - you seem to be right. There seemed to be TWO male Gorgons: Thantos and Nanas; the latter being the personal guard of Zeus. thank you for leading me in the right direction! Both Male and female Gorgons could heal and be deadly.

C.J,: As for black Unicorns thank you for showing me that someone else had thought of to. (Another book for my collection now).

NOW this topic can be deposed of!

― Peter Kelley (MstrPBK), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

I had forgotten about those beings ... but i had never associated them with Medusas

There are no such things as "Medusas." Medusa is the name of a particular gorgon. That's her name. Like "Carol." Perseus kills her and then Pegasus pops out.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Medusas are also a particular type of jellyfish.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

I grew up on this movie

― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

???

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

Medusa is Italian for jellyfish, as well. Occasionally you hear people shouting "medusa!" when swimming. You get out of the sea at that point.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

what if they yell "Kraken"?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

The Last Unicorn is the shit. My lovely acid-damaged friend makes me watch with her all the time.

― trees (treesessplode), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.digitalmedusa.com/medusa_gallery.htm

Also:

It's BIG!

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 18 August 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

" ... There are no such things as "Medusas." Medusa is the name of a particular gorgon." ....

Would you believe ... "Gorgons" then?

― Peter Kelley (MstrPBK), Friday, 18 August 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

" what if they yell "Kraken"?'
-- Shakey Mo Collier (audiobo...), August 18th, 2006.

You run like h*ll and hope that Gods are not after you!

― Peter Kelley (MstrPBK), Friday, 18 August 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

You know this shit isn't real, right Martin?

― Lois Jogger (noodle vague), Friday, 18 August 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

I just came across this god on wikipedia:

Ocnus
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In Greek mythology, Ocnus was a son of Manto and Tiberinus. He founded Mantua (modern Mantova). Alternatively, he was the son or brother of Auletes and founded Felsina (modern Bologna).Virgil X, 198.

Ocnus was condemned to spend eternity in the netherworld, weaving a rope of straw. As depicted in the picture by Polygnotos,standing behind him is his donkey which eats the rope as fast as it is made.[1]

Ocnus personifies hesitation, frustration, delay and the wasting of time and effort. Ocnus is the patron saint of researchers, graduate students and investigators.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

I should have sacrificed hungry donkeys to him daily.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

I really hope that when the alien archeologists are digging through the
radioactive ruins of the earth in the distant future, they get greek
mythology confused with the transformers.

― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 04:44 (nineteen years ago)

Think about all the craziest contemporary art you've seen and how fucking insane or ambitious it was
THEN TAKE A LOOK AT THIS SHIT
http://www.cgmarshall.com/images/Photos/raft_of_the_medusa.JPG

― Blastochrist (blastocyst), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

There's a chapter about that painting in Julian Barnes' novel A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

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