The name derives from the ancient Greek word gorgós,
which means "dreadful", and appears to come from
the same root as the Sanskrit word "garğ" (Sanskrit: गर्जन, garjana)
which is defined as a guttural sound, similar
to the growling of a beast, thus possibly originating
as an onomatopoeia. While descriptions of Gorgons vary
across Greek literature and occur in the earliest
examples of Greek literature, the term commonly
refers to any of three sisters who had hair made of living,
venomous snakes, as well as a horrifying visage
that turned those who beheld her to stone.
Traditionally, while two of the Gorgons
were immortal, Stheno and Euryale, their sister
Medusa was not as she was slain by the demigod
and hero Perseus. That is to say, there occurred
in the early thirteenth century B.C. an actual
historic rupture, a sort of sociological trauma,
which has been registered in this myth, much
as what Freud terms the latent content of a neurosis
is registered in the manifest content of a dream:
registered yet hidden, registered in the unconscious
yet unknown or misconstrued by the conscious mind.

I made a covenant w/ mine eyes;
why then should I think upon a maid?
Job 31:1