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Medusa

Medusa A stolen innocence. 

Unsought events in our lives (the rape) swipe us from our innocent view of the known world into the new and unexplored realms of the brutal truth, which transforms us from mere victims into wise and mighty beings. The serpents locks which she acquired serve as protection, her Aegis Pallas. Spurious men petrify at her sight, at the sight of truth. She is now an outcast, no longer fragile and ordinary, but a feared monster of the fantastic realm, with even greater power, that is yet again most desired to be conquered and possessed by men.

 

Serpents generally symbolise the vital power that sloughs death, as serpents shed their skin to be (as it were) reborn. 

Feathers symbolise here the new psychic energy acquired, the ecstasy of freedom in the agony of the process of metamorphoses.

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