ART: MEDUSA WAS PART OF AFRICAN HISTORY NOT GREEK'S. ART OF THE DAY.

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 How well do you know the story of Medusa? The Gorgon monster generally described as having the face of a hideous human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair ? The one beheaded by the hero Perseus, who thereafter used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon? Well, do you know she was part of African mythology, not of Greek's as the world know today? To know more about this history, watch this space.

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