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Medusa: Athena
Bad hair days happen to everyone they even happened in accicent greece. Anyone would consider their hair being turned into snakes a very bad hair day, but that's exactly what happened to Medusa. Everyone who knows anything about Greek Mythology knows who she is. She turened people to stone if they looked at her and was killed by Perseus with the help Athena then placed her head onto a sheild. But, how did Medusa become the lady with snake hair that you can not look at? She was not born this way it all comes from her talking badly about the wrong Goddess.
Medusa was a preistess at a temple for the Goddess Athena. She was very devoted to her, and told everyone who came to see the temple of the beloved Goddess to many Greek people all the wonderful things about her. But this was not the case for the head goddess Hera.
People would walk in and ask her how the Gods and Goddess were doing and Medsusa would answer "Everyone is wonderful espeacially the mighty Athena. Well, all except for Hera. She's slithering around in Zues' relatiojnships like a snake. She is a lot like a sepernt actually she evn looks like one,".
This talk about a goddess would shock the people. No one talks about a God that way espeacially Hera. She was not a very forgiving Goddess, and would certainly have Medusa's head for saying something like that. The people would continue on, and pretand they did not hear such vuglar things and move on.
Of course, this kind of talk reached the Goddess Hera, and she was very upset to hear such awful things being said about her. She knew she had to teach Medusa a lesson, or else her people would think she is weak and can talk about her in that way. But, what would she do to teach Medusa her lesson? And then, it came to her, so she set off to visit Medusa.
When Hera arrived at the Temple of Athena that Medusa was known to be at went inside to seek out Medusa. Medusa saw the Goddess and felt as if her life was over. When Hera approached Medusa she said " Hello

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