Not to swagger, but I played the 1st Ghostly Sister in a college production of Macbeth. You know the celebrity, one of three witches who's prophecies trade the course of Macbeth's life irreversibly. The, "Substitute, double, exertion and go to regularly" Witches. One of our short-term assignments was to grant each of our lettering a well-mannered name. So theorize my do faster a month or so ago bearing in mind I found out that the Ghostly Sisters "approved" names are Ursula, Glenda, and Medea. Rats. I picked Niarne.
Medea (exact "meh-DEE-ah") is a Greek name that could either mean "send to prison" or "to return." Out of the three names, Medea is the one with the utmost sharp trappings. Whenever I clutch this name I intuitively involve, "small deadly."
As the story goes, Medea was a sorceress living in what is now the bucolic of Georgia. She has fair and square an interesting villa tree. Medea's set out is Emperor Aeetes, her Aunt is the sorceress Circe, and her grandfather is the sun god Helios. She is frequently depicted as a priestess for Hecate, the goddess of Witchcraft and the dead.
Medea agreed to help Jason discover the Blonde Pelt on the turmoil that he get married her. He agreed. Medea second hand her witchcraft to help Jason owing to a series of odd jobs. She ready an comfort and told Jason to rub it on himself and his arms so that he would be self-assured from the fire be alive bulls. She warned him that the dragon's teeth turn inside warriors bearing in mind you remove them, and told him that throwing a stone at them mood muddle them. She moreover gave the disturbed dragon a potion of herbs to make him rest. Medea honestly did all the work for him. They were wedded and responsibility two children: Mermeros and Pheres. She seems when an uncritical heroine in the rather part of the story.
Stow went well until Emperor Creon offers his offspring Glauce to Jason. Jason accepts. Jason's not so tasteless. The betrayed Medea sends Glauce a gown and a golden coronet, moreover laced with dirty. This gets rid of Glauce. Medea moreover kills their two children and flees, and some say that she remarried and had sundry son. In some prematurely versions of the myth, her contract killing her children was an whim. This consequent part of Medea's myth was ready inside a very notorious perform by Euripides, which depicts her murdering her children on drive. This is the typically native representation of the story.
The same as the perform is torpid individual performed today, I find it favorably unsavory that somebody would be unfamiliar with this story. So theorize my do faster bearing in mind I read on a slaughter board that they met a blue girl with this name. Outfit extremely responded, "That's bold!" Yes, it is! But Medea is actually dearest by some Neo-Pagans. The story may or may not stock been based on a real stimulate temperament. Others see her as a demoted goddess. In Athens, organize is proof of a mother cult in reverence of moreover Hera and Medea that was either in reverence of dead children and their grieving mothers or was practicing in the ritual outflow of children. I'm really hoping it's the preceding.
If you torpid when the athletic shadows of the name, organize are variations of this name, when Media, Medora (which is moreover the name of two lettering in one of my predilection comics Fortress Waiting), Medorah, and Madora, which won't stock an outright "small deadly" corpus. But Medea? For a child? Um...
Sources:
http://www.squidoo.com/books-with-witches
http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Medea
http://www.behindthename.com/name/medea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea
http://sacredmistsblog.com/witches-of-antiquity-medea
