foreign [Music] the gorgon's head a Christian king of Argos came home from Delphi with a heavy heart for he had received a dreadful Oracle no Sons shall be born to you the Priestess had told him but you should have a grandson and by his hand you shall die now the king had an only daughter who was yet a maiden so in his distress he thought I will evade my faith I will shut the knee up away from the sight of men in a house of bronze all sunk underground and he carried out his cruel plan but akris shoes forgot to take the gods into account part of the roof of the house was open to the sky and one day as lovely Danae sat sadly looking up at the passing clouds Zeus beheld the maiden changing himself into a shower of gold he stormed into her chamber when afterwards asan was born to the knee she hid him from her father's sight nevertheless the king discovered the baby and was more than ever filled with fear he dared not kill little precious directly lest the gods Avenge the murder instead he had a great chest built Place Danae and her boy in it and set them adrift upon the sea all day and all night the chest tossed upon the waves the Nay lulled her child with song and he slept but when the Don came a great wave picked up the chest and carried it close to the tiny island of seraphos it happened that a fisherman did this by name saw the chest bobbing on the waves close to the shore he dragged the box to land and opened it when he beheld the pitiful mother with the helpless little child his heart was moved he took them both to his wife for addictis was childless and there in the kind of Fisher folks Humble Home versus grew up now Danae had been a beautiful maiden and when persius has grown into a fine tall youth she was still beautiful so it was not strange that King polydactus who was his brother fell in love with her and made her his wife but the king hated the youth just because the Nay doted on him and sought some way to get rid of him at last polydactus said to his stepson the time has come precious for you to win glory for yourself in some bold adventure young precious thought so too but what should the adventure be I think the Willy polydactus said it would be a good idea for you to cut off the Medusa's head that would bring you to the greatest frame all unsuspecting Persia set off to find the Medusa not knowing in the list how very loose an adventure he had undertaken for the Medusa was one of the three Gorgons terrible winged monsters who lived alone on an island they had teeth like the task of a boar hands of brass and snakes instead of hair shoes did not know where to look for the Gorgons nor did he know which of them was Medusa and this was important for Medusa was the only one of the three that could be slain from place to place the prince went on his quest getting more and more discouraged then one day he beheld a young man of great Beauty wearing winged sandals and a winged cup and carrying in his hand a wand around which two golden serpents twine Persia's knew at once that this was her mess and was overjoyed when the God said virtuous I approved the high adventure you have in mind but you must be properly equipped for it without the wing sandals the magic wallet and the helmet of invisibility it will be difficult for you to slay Medusa but I will take you to the gray women you can find out from them and will they indeed tell me persius asked not willingly Hermes replied but you can make them do it they have but one I shared among the three snatch it from them as they pass it from one to another and none can see and do not give it back till they tell you what you want to know with that Hermes gave persus a magnificent curved sword you will need it he said for Medusa's skills our hardest metal first shoes had just taken the sword when there was a sudden brightness in the sky and he beheld the goddess Athen descending toward them of what use will be your sword my brother when none may look the Gorgons and live the sight of them as you well know turns men into stone take my bright Shield purchase look into it instead of at the monster as you approach to do battle and you will see the Medusa reflected as in a mirror and the goddess left on and on with God companion purchase journeyed farther than man had ever been at last they came to the end of the Earth there the weird gray women sat passing their eye from one to another just as her mess had said the nay's son knew what to do he left the God and crept quietly towards them waited till one had taken the eye from her forehead and snatched it away as she passed it to her sister the gray women raised a fearful glamor when they realized that a stranger had their eye they held and they threatened but without the eye they were helpless and in the end they grudgingly told persus the way to the nips of the North so again precious went on this time to find the happy beings who possessed the three Priceless things he needed and when the nibs hurt the reason he wanted them they were willing to give him the wind shoes the helmet that would make him invisible and the Magic Wallet that would become the right size for whatever he wished to carry fully equipped now precious lightly spread through the air over land and over sea to the fearful island of the Gorgons as he approached he could see scattered in the fields and along the roads statues of men and beasts whom the sight of the Gorgons had turned Stone and at last from high above he beheld the monsters themselves reflected in his shield their scale covered Bodies glistened In The Sand their great wings were folded and the snakes that were their hair lay hideously coiled and intertwined the Gorgons were asleep but which of the three was Medusa persius could see no difference among them suddenly he heard Athena's voice descent persues and strike the Gorgon nearest the shore is Medusa Persia swept down and still gazing into the shield boldly swung his blade with one stroke he cut off the gristy head then springing into the air he thrusts his prize all reading and hissing into the Magic Wallet uplift the Gorgon sisters for they heard the rattle of Medusa's skills as the severed body thrashed about they turned their snaky heads and when they saw Perseus they roared with Fury flapping their great Wings they set off in Pursuit but they could not outstream the wing sandals over lands and people the hero flew on and on he had lost his way now for her mess had left him below the Libyan Desert stressed endlessly persius did not know what those signs were nor did he guess that their Ruby drops falling from Medusa's head were turning into venomous snakes that would inhabit the desert forever but now he saw a sight that made his heart beat fast with excitement and wonder fastened by chains to a cliff by the Sea he was a beautiful Maiden precious almost forgot to keep his winged sandals moving so Strack was he by her rare Beauty I pray you tell me your name and why you are bound like this I am Andromeda she said daughter of cephus king of Ethiopian the beautiful kashiopeia is my mother it is her beauty that has chained me here for the gods are jealous and in nothing maybe mortal surpass them the day my mother wanted herself fairer than the daughters of nireius the sea God has sent a serpent to Prey Upon Our People and my death alone can appease his anger so says the oracle enough of Tears Persia said to them sternly I am Perseus son of Zeus and the knee now I will make this contract with you that Andromeda shall be mine if I save her from the serpent indeed indeed Valerie's youth she shall be yours only save her from the monster and you shall have our kingdom as well as our daughter pressure sprung into the air and shot high up in the clouds and buried his sword up into the beast's right shoulder on and on he struck the monster with his sword that lead to its death I will take Fair Maiden without dowry Persia said and that very day the wedding was celebrated now while the marriage Feast was at its height the door of the banquet hall was suddenly flung open and in burst of a mob of shouting riotous men foremost stood atromeda's Uncle Phineas with a javelin in hand behold I am here he cried I have come to avenge the death of my promised bride finesse said not a word he looked from the King to Perseus and decided at which to aim his weapon then hurdled it at the hero the spare stuck in Persia's couch then the rioters went wild weapons were hurdled and the feast turned into a battle thick as hell javelin's spread by Persia's ears he set his shoulders against a great stone column and struck down one man after another but at least he realized that Valor could not withstand the numbers against him if I have any friends here let them hide their faces he shouted with this he drew Medusa's head out of the wallet 200 men became Stony statues before Phineas Phineas cried put away your horrible weapon hide it grant me only my life and May the rest be yours what I can give you most cowardly Phineas I will precious replied you shall be a lasting Monument here in the Palace of my father-in-law the unhappy Phineas tried to turn away his eyes but even as he did so his flesh turned to stone when at the Year's End Persia stayed home with Andromeda polydactus hatred had in no way lessened the King was Furious that his stepson had returned and refused to believe that he actually slain the Medusa I shall prove to you that what I say is true he cried hide your eyes all you who are my friends and he showed the gorgon's head the cruel polydactus that was the last time persus ever used the horrible head he gave it most willingly to Athen who kept it ever after now that polydactus was dead then they yearned to go home again and be reconciled with her father so persius made the fisherman dictus king of Island and sailed with his mother and Andromeda to Greece but it happened that when they came to Argos King akris shoes was away from home games were being held in Larisa and persuas hearing of them decided to go there and take part and there at the game it was that the Oracle which acrisius had received at Delphi was strangely fulfilled for when it came to Persia's turn to throw the discus he threw it so hard that it swerved to one side it landed Among The Spectators and killed an old man that old man was King a Christians who had gone to such cruel lengths to avoid the Fate which the gods had ordained