A fair and virginal maiden raped by Poseidon, Medusa becomes a monster with snakes for hair, and when she fixes her gaze upon anyone, they turn to marble stone. Perseus cuts off her head retaining the power of life over death and womanhood bound up in it while her body dies a mortal death.
Snakes signify strength, cunning, and cruelty and provide venom (poison) and antidote (cure) in their own heads. By combining the attributes of female goddess with serpent in Medusa, and overcoming it, perseus (man) effectively feels the power he has over life as he wields this power where he wills. (In real life we have transwomen–men who understand the power of woman and want it for their own)
The maiden and serpent united for a brief moment in God’s Paradise, the Garden of Eden. It led to the downfall and cursing by God of serpent, man, and woman; and it led ultimately to death. The serpent was consigned to a life of crawling in the dust, the man work, and the woman labor in love. Woman’s seed and snake would forever crush each other’s heel and head, respectively.
The Medusa Myth however is not the separation of woman and snake, but the embodiment of the everlasting union between serpent and woman. It is the tale of woman that has become so terrifying (through a violent sexual act upon her) as to be able to turn another, at her whim, to stone, rendering him incapacitated and paralyzed.
Calling someone Medusa is the ultimate feminine cut-down in many ways. It is a reference to curly hair being akin to having snake hair. It is a reference not to divine life but mortal life. And it eliminates a tie to God while testifying to a union with the serpent, who is the most powerful and knowledgeable (cunning) creature made; marrying woman with serpent in worldly wisdom and animistic bestiality instead of divine creation with God.
Mary is the antithesis of Medusa. She is loving and forgiving. She is married to God, not the serpent lord. She is divine, not earthly. She is everlasting, not mortal. She is good, not evil. She is mother to the Sons of God, not winged horses.
~Song of Mary~ 