TE16 Turkish Delight

Medusa heard a sound that he had never heard before. But he wasn’t sure. In any event, in a moment of rage, you could do strange things and make strange sounds. “With the dualism it possesses, Medusa is a figure nested in fears regarding women of masculine history that’s faltering between sacredmotherandtempting, reprobateLilith.This journey thatwas launched with myth is actually completely mental. I’m touching the two Medusa heads used as base for columns at the northwest corner of the Basilica Cistern, and I’m listening to the things the stones tell me. The ancient echo that flows from them streams heart beats of sorrow to the water, and the water gradually heats up. Even the fish in the pools have sharp, strange looks and almost ugly silhouettes.” In this matter I decided to talk to an old friend who understood me the best. She lived in Iğneada forests in seclusion. We had grown up together, she knew me well. She spent her life doing research and writing on healing herbs and metaphysics. She had set her mind on creating that divine liquor, ambrosia. I met with her in the weekend. She was living in her jerrybuilt home with her cats and a dog in her garden, and she was growing most of the things herself. Behind the ash tree that catches the eye when you look out from the window at the back room of the house was a mountain view far off, settled to the horizon. She had built her cabin next to this tree on purpose. “In Goethe’s Faust, Mephistopheles warns Faust who believes that he had seen Margaret during Walpurgis Night: by using the illusiveness of witchcraft, Medusa appears to men as the women 253