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Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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The Myth of Medusa on the Internet

The greek word for ladder is climax, and we talk about climaxes to day and the in the sexual act. So so there's all kinds of allusions to to the act of sex and the kind of transformative nature of sex and sexuality. It is no coincidence that that was foundthere in amongst the living and working spaces of the sex workers. But i think more than it just being about sex, it was also about where they where they were in cities and and at ports. This is how the world began. Medusa was there, poseidon did something quite nasty, and then there were monsters that came out of her,. yeha yeand she suffled a woeful fate

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