Medusa was a monster, one of the Gorgon sisters and daughter of Phorkys and Keto, the children of Gaea (Earth) and Oceanus (Ocean). She had the face of an ugly woman with snakes instead of hair; anyone who looked into her eyes was immediately turned to stone. Her sisters were Sthenno and Euryale, but Medusa was the only mortal of the three.
She was originally a golden-haired, fair maiden, who, as a priestess of Athena, was devoted to a life of celibacy; however, after being wooed by Poseidon and falling for him, she forgot her vows and married him. For this offence, she was punished by the goddess in a most terrible manner. Each wavy lock of the beautiful hair that had charmed her husband was changed into a venomous snake; her once gentle, love-inspiring eyes turned into blood-shot, furious orbs, which excited fear and disgust in the mind of the onlooker; whilst her former roseate hue and milk-white skin assumed a loathsome greenish tinge. Seeing herself transformed into such a repulsive creature, Medusa fled her home, never to return. Wandering about, abhorred, dreaded, and shunned by the rest of the world, she turned into a character worthy of her outer appearance. In her despair, she fled to Africa, where, while wandering restlessly from place to place, young snakes dropped from her hair; that is how, according to the ancient Greeks, Africa became a hotbed of venomous reptiles. With the curse of Athena upon her, she turned into stone whomever she gazed upon, till at last, after a life of nameless misery, deliverance came to her in the shape of death, at the hands of Perseus.
Misalliance marriage. However we live in a developed society the issue of misalliance marriage is still appearing allover the world. So what is a purpose of people, who is getting ivolved in it? At first misalliance marriages mostly is a way to improve the financial or social position of one or rarely both sides. People forget about feelings and the mental idea of a marriage procedure, trying to get as much mercenary profit as they can. This tendency is illustrating the high level of moral decaying of contemporary young people. In addition most of the children, raised in these "unhappy marriages" has problems with the correct definition of good and bad. In another hand, young people may be innocent in organization of misalliance marriage. Many of them can be affected by parents or other relative, which are interested to make a relative connection with another specific family because of financial or another interests. This connection dooms future husband and wife on forever srugling of life with not loved person. To conclude, an misalliance marriage is a higly important problem, which is representing how hard the moral standarts are changing, pressed by the vested interests. The institution of marriage should be a sphere of mental honesty and faith, but the perverted minds of some people is opposing this rules. The only thing, which can save the cituation in "moral education" provided by family, which will magnetise the young people's moral compass right way.
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