Graiai

Japanese: Graiai
Graiai

…Of these, the first two do not have any particular myths, so the word Gorgon often refers immediately to Medusa. They are fearsome creatures with hair made of countless snakes, teeth like boars, and eyes that turn people to stone. Their lair, said to be far to the west near the Garden of the Hesperides, was guarded by their three older sisters, the Graiai, who were born old and shared one eye and one tooth. For this reason, the hero Perseus, who was ordered to retrieve the head of the Gorgon, first stole the Graiai's eyes to find out the way to the Gorgons' lair, and then, relying on his reflection in a mirror to approach the sleeping Gorgons so that he would not look directly into their eyes and be turned to stone, he cut off the head of Medusa, the only one of the three sisters who was not immortal. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Graiai" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…このうち前2者には特別の神話がないため,ゴルゴンといえばただちにメドゥーサを指すことが多い。彼女たちは無数の蛇から成る頭髪,猪のきばのごとき歯,見る者を石に化す目をもつ恐るべき存在で,はるかな西方,ヘスペリデスの園の近くとされるそのすみかは,彼女たちの年上の3姉妹,生まれながらの老女で,しかも3人で一眼一歯を共有するグライアイGraiaiによって守られていた。このため,ゴルゴンの首を取ってくることを命じられた英雄ペルセウスは,まずグライアイから目を奪ってゴルゴンたちのすみかへの道を聞き出したあと,その目を直視して石化させられないように,鏡に映る姿をたよりに睡眠中の彼女たちに近づき,3姉妹のうちでただひとり不死身ではなかったメドゥーサの首を切り落とした。…

※「Graiai」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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