Well, show us what's in your bag! yelled one of the hunters, “otherwise you will pay with your life for a lie!” Ha-ha-ha-
ha...He snatched the sack from Perseus' hands and opened it. And from there, the terrible head of the old woman Medusa rolled out onto the table ... Oh, horror! All hunters turned into stones!
The worst thing is that among the hunters was the unfortunate Acrisius, who also turned into stone. Thus the oracle's prophecy was fulfilled that Acrisius would be killed by his grandson.
Perseus presented the head of the Gorgon to his heavenly patron Athena, and she attached it to her shield. By the way, the shield of Athena was called Aegis. Now they say "under the auspices" when it comes to reliable patronage.
All the characters of this beautiful fairy tale are now among the stars. Perseus with Andromeda next to Cepheus and Cassiopeia. In the constellation Perseus, the brightest star is Algol. This star is strange: it either burns brightly, or goes out for a while. Astronomers call such stars variable. In modern times, we know that Algol has a large planet that orbits the main star and periodically obscures it. But in antiquity, nothing was known about this, and Algol was considered a strange, magical planet. They thought that this is a star and there is the head of Medusa transferred to the sky ...