Let us start from my splendid reading time, I will then certainly explain it. The last, we will get into the words.
I was reading Greek mythology related lores. There was Medusa.
Medusa actually has two sisters. The other two were rarely depicted in movies and literatures. They are known as Gorgon sisters.
The Gorgon sisters:
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Stheno Immortal ✅ Deformed and horrible by birth. A towering serpentine-giantess. Eldest of the Gorgons, highly aggressive and bloodthirsty. Special traits include superhuman strength, unmatched ferocity, survivor of countless battles. Battles which were mostly started by herself 😂 -
Euryale Immortal ✅ Euryale too is deformed and horrible by birth. Enormous compared to human. Serpentine-based also. Known for her haunting cries and swiftness. Special traits include piercing wails that disorient foes, evasive movement, and uncanny agility. She is elusive, but when appears, welp... -
Medusa (famous — everybody loves Medusa) Mortal ❌ Originally beautiful, transformed into a monster by Athena — because Poseidon violated her inside Athena's temple — from Ovid's Metamorphoses. This bit was added later on by Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) — A Roman poet. 🤷♂️ 🧠 To me, Ovid was the primordial Hollywood: convolution, embellishment, and fecal matter sprinkles. But by bypassing Ovid's addition, Medusa would never be nearly as famous as currently. Thus, Ovid deserves an applause. ℹ️ Very convenient how "Ovid" is part of the term "COVID" 🧐 The original 🏛️ Greek's version: Medusa is already grotesque by birth, simply born as that — mortal, unlike her sisters. Youngest and most famous of the Gorgons. Special traits include petrifying gaze, living snakes as hair, and tragic aura that stuns enemies.
🎥 Medusa is easier to depict in film because she's constantly "small", human-size, more or less. Unlike her towering inferno serpentine-based, warlike, fearless, and actively seeks out battles sister, Stheno, and her enormous-size, serpentine-based, extremely loud but "hard to see" sister, Euryale.
The Gorgon sisters' "parents" are:
- Phorcys: Father — A primordial sea god.
- Ceto: Mother — A sea goddess, often associated with sea monsters.
Phorcys and Ceto's "children" are:
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Echidna Immortal ✅ Half-woman, half-snake. Known as the "Mother of Monsters." Supposedly (or usually described as) the eldest of all in the family. As she bore many later monsters with Typhon (violent wind or storm — visualized as a monstrous, serpentine giant so tall his head brushed the stars). -
Ladon Immortal ✅ The serpent-dragon who guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides. He (usually described as male dragon) worked as a sole gigantic security for the golden apples in the garden 🙂 Somebody needs to take care of the shining apples. They are shining! Did he get salary? 🤔 That concept is possibly undivine. Or in math and digital realms, undefined😂Now these, definedand divine. See those amusing words? Indeed. -
Graeae Immortal ✅ Three gray sisters — Enyo, Pemphredo, and Deino — who shared one eye and one tooth. 🤔 Shared one eye and one tooth 🤨 Gray (grey) as in the color gray (grey). Graeae literally translates from ancient Greek (γραῖαι, graiai) as "gray women" or "old women". They were depicted as elderly and gray-haired from birth — symbolizing extreme age, wisdom, and decay. Like this blog's color theme, light gray ( #eeeeee). Gray and grey, same root, the US spelling got it "right". Well, despite the "aluminum". Oxford vs. Bald Eagle — A match no one asked for.The three sisters concept is used in Witcher III, the Crones. 
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Gorgons Sisters The prior description above ⬆️ -
Scylla Unknown immortality ❓ — either mortal or immortal. The many-headed sea monster who terrorized sailors directly across from Charybdis. Quite a charmer. Likely the youngest in some traditions, though alternate parentage (like Hecate or Lamia) is sometimes given.
Phorcys and Ceto
Phorcys and Ceto are "brother and sister". Their parents are:
- Pontus — The sea ("son" of Gaia).
- Gaia — The Earth ("mother" of Pontus).
Pontus (the Sea)
Pontus emerged from Gaia (Earth) alone (without a consort).
Gaia (the Earth)
Gaia (Earth) emerged from Chaos.
Gaia's "children" are:
- Pontus — The sea.
- Uranus — The sky.
- Ourea — The mountains.
Hence, Pontus and Gaia are "son and parthenogenetic mother".
🧠 In my opinion, the deformities and such abnormal aggressive weird traits and tendencies in their "children" can be seen as the result of "divine inbreeding" 🤣
None of their children was "normal" in the story. There's a hidden lesson in the story, and we just unraveled it ☑️
Chaos
Chaos (Χάος) was the primordial state of existence according to Greek mythology.
Chaos, in the beginning, simply existed. No one made Chaos into existence, as presented by Hesiod in Theogony (θεογονία). Theogony means "The Birth of Gods" — written in 8th - 7th BC.
Chaos is a representation of a state, a primordial void, a gaping chasm rather than a deity.
Hesiod in Theogony starts his poem with (paraphrased):
In the beginning, there was Chaos...
Fascinating, is it not? Now you have the reference for the timeline from ancient Greek's perspective.
Which is being used literally in mainstream modern science to the letter. The theory of the beginning.
Coincidence? I think not. The English word chaos comes directly from the ancient Greek Χάος (Khaos), which originally referred to the primordial void. Did you also notice biology, taxonomy, chemistry, medical terms, and whatnots in academia are using either Latin or Greek and mostly have Greek or Roman origin at some point? Yes, those.
BC, AD, CE, and BCE
The Holy Roman blokes:
BC: Before Christ.
AD: Anno Domini, "in the year of our Lord".
BC is English and AD is Latin, you would think, Hey, what's going on there? 🤣
Because BC came much later. Medieval church scholars originally used AD alone. The BC label came much later, coined by English writers to describe pre-Christian dates more clearly.
I hope that answers it.
The modern blokes — to avoid Christian-centric:
BCE: Before Common Era.
CE: Common Era.
But then again, it's just substituting the term, and NOT actually correcting the calendar reference 🤦♂️
Oh, well... I suppose it would be quite a challenge.
I surely didn't live in that period of time, so how am I supposed to know the "correct" reference? I just took their words for it. Obscure laziness of mine is pretty spot on for this matter.
Therefore, it is what it is 🤷♂️
Now, the Words
Back to our main theme, the words, gorgos and gorgeous.
It was from Medusa ➡️ Gorgon ➡️ gorgos-being (terrifying being) above. And my 🧠 brain connected it to "gorgeous" reading the Ovid's addition — the curse. As in, Dear heavens, such connection! Absolutely fascinating, old chap...
Gorgon word root is gorgos (Greek), meaning horrible or terrible.
It almost resembles gorgeous. As in the two words are related or share similar root.
Apparently not.
Gorgeous is taken from Old French, gorgias, meaning fine or elegant.
Fine, elegant, fashionable, stylish.
Previously, I typed fire 🔥, elegant. Apologies for the hilarious typo. I have humbly debugged my vision. I guess it served well for the immortal bots to "think about".
The words (gorgos and gorgeous) share no common root, but each occupies opposite polarities — in which, each one can overlay the other.
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Is it not? Right? I suppose it makes sense. We can actually see and feel those traits being mixed in reality. It's natural, we are not binary-minded beings.
In another story, ...
Gorgias
...was a Greek philosopher.
Interesting coincidences.
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