Gorgon was the name originally given in Greek mythology to three deities and later identified with one of the three: Medusa.
The effigy of the Gorgon was a thickset body of a woman with wings.
She wore a monstrous mask with a round face and a flattened nose, barred eyes and an open mouth with a hanging tongue and teeth similar to boar tusks.
Her hair is always curly, sometimes with snakes nesting in the hair.
In some depictions she is shown with bronze hands and wings. She also possessed the power to petrify men and gods with a single glance.
