When the myths described are listened to, the idea that the female characters in them are the keepers of a disaster stuns us like a flash of lightning. When we examine the Greek myths, which have been systematically and detailed, we see that women come to life as beings who bring evil, give birth and grow. Indeed, it is true that women cause disasters, which are the men mentioned in these myths. However, while these privileged narratives of men regarded men in all ways, they continued to portray women who wanted to draw their own way, who did not keep up, and who acted outside of what was told. Fortunately, the spots on these female characters, which have been read and written again in the last century, are tried to be cleaned.
One of the most famous of these characters is the witch Medea, known as the "son and sister killer". Medea is a sun-witch, the grandson of Helios, the nephew of Kolkhis noble Kirke, and the daughter of Aietes, the king of the Laz. Signs about the worship made to him in the Black Sea were found, sometimes he is registered as a daughter of Hekate.
Medea is the scholar of plants that have been humiliated as 'folk medicine' today, such as witchcraft by her father, and drug and poison making.
Iason, a Greek hero, comes to the land of the Laz to perform one of the tasks assigned to him to sit on the throne he deserves. It is supposed to take the golden hide, which belongs to King Aietes, to his country. However, the tasks given to him by Aietes are not the things he can handle alone. For this reason, Medea, enchanted by Aphrodite and Eros, assists this young man in fulfilling his father's duties, with a blind love and devotion, only by promising him loyalty. Finally, they escape from Kolkhis by taking the golden hides. In this escape story, Medea comes to the first smear; This witch woman who betrayed her father also caused her brother's death. In some narratives, it is said that Iason had daggered Absyrtos on the back, but it was said that he had smashed his brother in order to humiliate the foreign woman who was regarded as an eastern for the Greeks and laundered his own heroes and threw these pieces into the sea in order to slow down his father's ship. So the king pursues the golden hides for the sake of collecting the pieces of his son.
The end of this escape goes to Kirke, who is in exile. Knowing his nephew from the bright eyes of the sun descendant, Kirke cleans them of their sins, then the ship sails again and reaches the homeland of Iason. Here, Medea enters the city alone and kills the king of Iolkos, who holds the throne of Iason, but the city council sends them into exile. This time the king of Medea poisons in Corinth, where they were deported, so Iason took over and became the ruler of the city. Iason's desire for fame and fame lies at the heart of all the murders committed by Medea. After ten years and fourteen children, Iason says that he wants to marry Princess Glauke, and his promises to Medea under harsh conditions are not valid. Medea then creates a massacre on the wedding night in order to take revenge on this man, who uses him as a tong, and the people around him; she presents a bride-to-be who is fascinated by the bride but is washed with poison, and the bride dies by suffering as she wears this dress and dies in pain. Almost everyone at the wedding - except for Jason - dies. And Medea comes to the famous part of the story, again marked by a male murderer; According to some, the woman kills her two sons in order to crown her revenge. Iason's last view of Medea is its extinction among the clouds. After this incident, returning from his promise to Medea, Iason is cursed by the gods and loses his glory. Not able to withstand this, he tries to kill himself by hanging on the mast of his famous ship Argo, but knocks directly over Iason and kills him. The end of Iason, who does not keep his word, ends tragic like this.
In other narratives, it is said that Corinthians killed his children because of the slaughter of Medea's wedding night. It is even among the rumors that Medea's son, Medus, escaped and founded the empire known as the Med Empire in the future.
As a result; When the elections and movements of Medea, which have survived to the present day as a Greek narrative, are analyzed, it is seen that it is a strong female character manipulated by gods and men and taken guilty. This woman, seen as a bogeyman for being an Amazon, a woman and a stranger, being humiliated and incompatible with the female figure in the Ancient Greek society, is today a symbol of the power of femininity, matriarchy and healing, which is also humiliated by patriarchy.
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