The Dragon and the Hero (Part Two)

We shall now proceed to explain what we mean by the transformation of the theme from the inside that is from the Id.

The oracle has warned Akrisios to beware of his grandson as he was destined to kill him. His daughter Danae is cast into a tower but impregnated by Zeus in the form of rain of gold. She gives birth to Perseus. The grandfather has his daughter and grandson put into a chest and cast into the sea. They float to the isle of Seriphos and are fished put of the water by Diktys, the brother of Polydektes who is the ruler of the island. The king falls in love with Danae and tries to get rid of Perseus. At a feast Perseus asks the king what present he would care for and when the king replies “a horse” Perseus says, “Anything you desire even the head of the Gorgon.” Next day all those who were invited to the feast bring the king a horse but he rejects the horse offered by Perseus and asks for the Gorgon's head, threatening that he would have intercourse with the hero's mother if he failed in his task.

In the far west beyond the Ocean near to the Land of the Dead and the Island of the Immortals there lived a terrific female monster called Gorgo, The Roarer. Her face was round and had an angry look. Her locks were serpents and in her mouth she had boar's tusks. Her eyes were wide open and lightning came out of them. Anybody who caught sight of her or was struck by the lightning from her eyes was petrified immediately. This monster had been made pregnant by Poseidon and this was the only time she had had intercourse. Perseus was sent out to destroy the pregnant Gorgon. He found her sleeping beside her two sisters in a cave and cut her head off with his sickle. In this moment Chrysaor a god with a golden sword and the winged horse Pegasos jump out of the Gorgons body. Suddenly the two sisters of Medusa1 awake and their roaring and weeping is terrific when they see what has happened. They pursue Perseus but he manages to escape. He petrifies