The Mask of Medusa © Created by Ramon E. Bayron All Rights Reserved 2017 Chapter 1 : The Secret Origin Story "The most iniquitous of all injustices are those afflicted by the gods." The most tragic story of the woman known in antiquity as Medousa/Medusa is revealed to all who cares to know; Medusa once had charms; to gain her love A rival crowd of envious lovers strove. They, who have seen her, own, they ne’er did trace More moving features in a sweeter face. Yet above all, her length of hair, they own, In golden ringlets wav’d, and graceful shone. Her Neptune saw, and with such beauties fir’d, Resolv’d to compass, what his soul desir’d. In chaste Minerva’s fane, he, lustful, stay’d, And seiz’d, and rifled the young, blushing maid. The bashful Goddess turn’d her eyes away, Nor durst such bold impurity survey; But on the ravish’d virgin vengeance takes, Her shining hair is chang’d to hissing snakes. These in her