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Artfully Artless Craft’s 3rd Giveaway!

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This giveaway ships internationally

Winner will be picked June 30th, 2014

What you get:

One hand painted mink skull necklace

One Artfully Artless designed Cicada sticker

One adjustable doll eye ring

One Intaglio cicada print

One stress relief vial charm

One protection vial charm

One Lavender herb ball necklace

One Blue moonstone charm necklace

One butterfly wing necklace

One hand made wand

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I dig this for a couple of reasons.

First, it’s got great style.

Perhaps more interestingly though, is that it’s a very different tone as far as the direction of aggression. Most people know the Clash of the Titans version where she’s  on the hunt for him once he shows up. But let’s face it, Medusa really gets the shaft from destiny overall. She starts out as a priestess in a temple who gets raped by Poseidon and gets cursed for it as if it was all her fault. The result is that she’s basically doomed to live without human contact for eternity. Then she’s hunted down specifically for her head by a demigod whose got all sorts of great toys and backing to get the job done and depicted as some sort of horrible monster for defending her turf from folks out to kill her.

There are some really interesting theories about regarding just what the whole ‘gorgon’ thing was really about from a historical perspective. It’s really quite a tragic tale about the rise of patriarchy and the purge of goddess-centric worshipers. There are also parallels to the Apollo versus Typhon story which is part of the same era. Harsh.

See, even the demystified stories from ancient times are fascinating!

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Medusa by *MattRhodes