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Walking on the beach the other day I found this. It would appear some hell beast of the deep has missplaced a diabolical clawed tentacle.



Some of my friends on facebook who foolishly disbelieve in nightmarish sea monsters tried to suggest it was the decomposing body of a sea snake but I'd like to point out (A) that is clearly a claw, and (B) the scales are going the wrong way for that to be the front end (it had been posited that that's a fang and the rest of the skull assemblage has disappeared)

Date: 2012-12-16 06:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blackmavriq.livejournal.com
Possibly an offspring of Poseidon and Medusa.

Date: 2012-12-16 09:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emo-snal.livejournal.com
Poseidon drank waaaay too much rum?

Date: 2012-12-16 06:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blackmavriq.livejournal.com
Medusa gets lonely, too. I'll bet the whole guardian/snake hair bit gets old. I'd be miserable, too.

Date: 2012-12-16 11:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emo-snal.livejournal.com
They say looking at her turned people to stone because she was so ugly..... but maybe she had a great personality?

Date: 2012-12-17 12:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emo-snal.livejournal.com
Whoa so I just looked up Medusa on wikipedia and apparently she DID have sex with Poseiden... but SHE was possibly the unwilling party: "In a late version of the Medusa myth, related by the Roman poet Ovid (Metamorphoses 4.770), Medusa was originally a ravishingly beautiful maiden, "the jealous aspiration of many suitors," but when she was caught being raped by the "Lord of the Sea" Poseidon in Athena's temple, the enraged Athena transformed Medusa's beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn onlookers to stone. In Ovid's telling, Perseus describes Medusa's punishment by Minerva (Athena) as just and well earned." (I'm not sure how her punishment for being raped was just and well earned.)

Also: "During that time, Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon. When Perseus beheaded her, Pegasus, a winged horse, and Chrysaor, a golden sword-wielding giant, sprang from her body."

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