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Updated: May 9, 2025

They had a son named Perses who became the parent of the Persian people. The sickle-sword that had slain the Gorgon went back to Hermes, and Hermes took Medusa's head also. That head Hermes's divine sister set upon her shield-Medusa's head upon the shield of Pallas Athene.

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