Quick translations seem to just say things like, “turn her hair into snakes”, but more in depth and original tellings would have sounded more like this,
“From then on, similarly to Euryale and Stheno, her older Gorgon sisters, Medusa was depicted with bronze hands and wings of gold. Poets claimed that she had a great boar-like tusk and tongue lolling between her fanged teeth. Writhing snakes were entwining her head in place of hair. Her face was so hideous and her gaze so piercing that the mere sight of her was sufficient to turn a man to stone.”
What about centaur? What does centaur anatomy look like? Does the horse part and the human part have their own organ systems or are there just horse organs and the human part is basically just a giant neck muscle? Does it breast feed from the human breasts or the horse end? Do they have horse teeth to process the food the horse end needs or is it human teeth and human diet?
It… well, it shouldn’t be. It would imply that her armpits are full of those as well.
And these are ancient times, real ancient… like the 50s or every other day in Kabul, so expect female figures with some interesting facial hair. I mean, stupid joke aside, can’t deny plausibility but there are some other considerations that would simply render this more difficult than it should. A lock of hair? Yes. Every single posible string of body hair? Quite hard, but not so quite impossible.
I looked up Ovid in Latin to see if there are any hints there (note: obviously Ovid isn’t the only source for Medusa, but he’s the only source that I know and could easily look up). First of all, the story mentions that Medusa’s hair were the most beautiful part of her, and that is why Minerva changed her hair into snakes. It seems unlikely that her pubes were considered the most beautiful part of her, so they probably didn’t change.
To get a bit more technical, the words Ovid uses to describe the hair are crinis and capillus. Both mean ‘hair’, but capillus specifically means head-hair, and while crinis can mean different hair, the hair of the head is still the most common definition. (I don’t know what pubes would be in Latin, tho, it might be the same words)
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Yeah, and tiny little peach fuzz snakes all over her arms
Seems plausible.
Not meant to be a joke, just wonder based off the mythology cause I feel like it would make sense for Athena to do that
For some reason, I imagine she’d be smooth like a snake’s belly.
Also, are we talking about a depiction of Medusa with legs or a snake bottom half?
If she doesn’t, she should. It’s just logical.
Idk but if you tried to access that region and your trouser snake got bit by her snake (or would it get stone hard)
Either way someone would need to suck the venom out
Lots of fun could ensue
Some pit vipers
You are posting to the wrong sub. This is not a stupid question. This is a great question.
No, stupid. They are tiny little snakes
Quick translations seem to just say things like, “turn her hair into snakes”, but more in depth and original tellings would have sounded more like this,
“From then on, similarly to Euryale and Stheno, her older Gorgon sisters, Medusa was depicted with bronze hands and wings of gold. Poets claimed that she had a great boar-like tusk and tongue lolling between her fanged teeth. Writhing snakes were entwining her head in place of hair. Her face was so hideous and her gaze so piercing that the mere sight of her was sufficient to turn a man to stone.”
Source: https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Creatures/Medusa/medusa.html
Follow up question: Can she…use them?
That could make an interesting hentai
THIS is the content I subscribed for
(also, sounds like a decent Oglaf strip)
She didn’t have tiny worms for eyelashes. So no, I don’t think so.
She seems to usually be depicted with eyebrows, so normal hair on her body would still be a thing. My vote is no.
Why just why
This type of questions is what I signed up for
Well, before she got turned into a gorgon she presumably had hair on her arms, legs, back, but none of that turned into snakes.
Probably.
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I don’t believe so but if she did, imagine going down on her!
You would be at the bar and everyone would look at all the bites all over your face and be like, “AH, went down on Medusa again?”
No wonder people thought she was hot..cause everyone’s became rock hard
Yep, constantly aggressively biting her clit, because the ones on her head have their own mind, so why wouldn’t her pubes?
Explains why she’s always raging.
Wait do you think her eyelashes and little tiny micro snakes
She’s hairless but uses a merkin
More like a sea urchin
What about centaur? What does centaur anatomy look like? Does the horse part and the human part have their own organ systems or are there just horse organs and the human part is basically just a giant neck muscle? Does it breast feed from the human breasts or the horse end? Do they have horse teeth to process the food the horse end needs or is it human teeth and human diet?
You’ll have to ask her last few tinder dates
Well she ends up covered in scales instead of skin, so she’d have no pubes.
I don’t think so, it isn’t like all her other body hair is made of snakes right? just her head
I hope
A can of worms
Now that’s the questions I’m looking forward in this sub.
Fish-hooks that nearly trapped me forever.
“Dated her, never saw the danger, but escaped once friendss and family clued me in.” — direct quote from Everyguy, Everywhere
If?
So she gets no dudes cos of that which explains why she’s so angry all the time?
It… well, it shouldn’t be. It would imply that her armpits are full of those as well.
And these are ancient times, real ancient… like the 50s or every other day in Kabul, so expect female figures with some interesting facial hair. I mean, stupid joke aside, can’t deny plausibility but there are some other considerations that would simply render this more difficult than it should. A lock of hair? Yes. Every single posible string of body hair? Quite hard, but not so quite impossible.
Oh.. you saw that image too?
Do you thing rapunzels pubes matched the same level as her hair?
are her nostril hairs snakes either?
Would the hair around her butthole be worms?
So are you asking if Medusa had an anaconda?
If they lay eyes on your Johnson, it’s like permanent Viagra?
well her eyebrows are not snales
does that mean her eyebrows are tiny snakes and her eyelashes
Yes
Would this guarantee a stone hard erection?!
Slow worms I think
I looked up Ovid in Latin to see if there are any hints there (note: obviously Ovid isn’t the only source for Medusa, but he’s the only source that I know and could easily look up). First of all, the story mentions that Medusa’s hair were the most beautiful part of her, and that is why Minerva changed her hair into snakes. It seems unlikely that her pubes were considered the most beautiful part of her, so they probably didn’t change.
To get a bit more technical, the words Ovid uses to describe the hair are crinis and capillus. Both mean ‘hair’, but capillus specifically means head-hair, and while crinis can mean different hair, the hair of the head is still the most common definition. (I don’t know what pubes would be in Latin, tho, it might be the same words)
Anyway, it’s probably just her head that’s snakes
I don’t remember any mythology about her offspring; that would explain it.
Wild this isn’t the first time this has been asked.
This kind of deep thinking is why I enjoy Reddit
Yes.
“Who the hell starts a conversation like that? I just sat down!”
No, but her Hisssterectimy was a nightmare
Surely then all of her body hair would be snakes…snake eyebrows, snake eyelashes and snakes in her nose!
She also has armpit vipers.