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Gorgon sculpture from a temple at Ancient Corcyra.

Gorgons are monstrous beings originating from Ancient Greek mythology. Gorgons have snake hair. The Gorgons were three monsters in Greek mythology, daughters of Echidna and Typhon, the mother and father of all monsters, respectively. Their names were Stheno, Euryale, and the most famous of them, Medusa. In some interpretations, Medusa was born human and was later turned into a gorgon by the goddess Athena, after what happened between Medusa and Poseidon. The defining ability of a gorgon is that their stare turns those who look at them to stone. In original Greek mythology, gorgons were precisely and exclusively female, as in, female creatures. In Monster High, they can also be male.

Monster High[]

Generation 1[]

The Monster High gorgons are Deuce Gorgon, his mother Medusa, his aunts Stheno and Euryale and his cousin Viperine Gorgon.

Medusa was born a normie, it was the goddess Athena who changed her into the beautiful and passionate monster she is today. It's not mentioned if the incident with the god Poseidon happened in the Monster High canon.

All known gorgons live on or visit Petros Island in Greece.[1] "Petros" is Ancient Greek for "rock" or "stone".

Deuce has been turned to stone three times by his own reflection: in "Freakout Friday", "Escape from Skull Shores" and "Great Scarrier Reef".

In "Fright On!" there is also something called 'Gorgon Powder', it can turn someone into stone, and reverse the effects of someone turned into stone.

Generation 3[]

Description[]

Gorgons are humanoid monsters with snakes for hair, or they have hair with snakes in it. They also have other snake-like traits like scales on their body, snake-like eyes, and snake-like tongues.

Abilities[]

  • Stone Stare: Some gorgons (Medusa and Deuce) can turn someone to stone with a single stare, though according to Viperine Gorgon, some monsters think every gorgon can do it, which is not the case as most can't. 
    • In the Generation 3 cartoon continuity, all gorgons possess this ability, causing them to be banned from playing Casketball until Medusa proved she wouldn't turn everybody to stone if they let her play, after which gorgons dominated the sport. At least in Deuce's case, instead of turning victims to stone inside and out, they are merely encased in a stone shell that can be broken with enough force.[2] Additionally, when a gorgon's petrifying gaze beam is reflected on or focused through some surfaces, it turns its victims into that substance (e.g. if one's gaze is focused through rock candy, victims will become rock candy themselves).[3]
  • Snakes for Hair: All gorgons have either hair made out of snakes with no actual hair, or they have hair with snakes in it.
    • In the Generation 3 continuity, these snakes are confirmed to have separate minds and senses from the gorgon they are attached to. This means that if one thinks, hears, or sees something, the other does not automatically share that knowledge and must be told manually.[3]
  • Hissing: Not only can the snakes on their head hiss, but the gorgons (or at least Medusa) themselves can also hiss when angered or stressed. 

Etymology[]

The word "Gorgon" is of Ancient Greek origin, being Gorgō (Γοργώ, singular) and Gorgónes (Γοργόνες, plural) in standardized Ancient Greek. The term comes from the word "gorgos" (γοργός), which can be translated as "grim", "ugly", "fierce", and "terrible".

Traditionally, there are only three gorgons: Medusa and her sisters Stheno and Euryale. The meaning of "Medusa" (Μέδουσα) means "jellyfish", but generally taken to be "queen" or "guardian". "Stheno" (Σθεννώ) means "strength", while "Euryale" (Εὐρυάλη) means "far-roaming".

Known Gorgons[]

Generation 1 Generation 2 Generation 3

Gallery[]

Notes[]

References[]

  1. Jackson Jekyll: "How's Greece and the Gorgon family reunion?" (Gloom Beach messages)
  2. The Monstering
  3. 3.0 3.1 That Thing You Deuce

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