Perseus and the Pleiades
So let's start. King Acrisius was predicted by a soothsayer oracle to die at the hands of his daughter's son. Acrisius had a daughter, Danae, but Danae did not have a son. And so, so that her son would not appear in the future, trying to deceive fate, Acrisius imprisoned her daughter in a high copper tower.
But Acrisius did not know that the supreme god Zeus had already fallen in love with Danae long before. But how to get into the high tower? And Zeus decided to turn into golden rain. Together with the sun's rays, Zeus flew into the window of the tower - that's how cunning he was, the same Zeus.
And Danae had a son. This was Perseus.
When Acrisius learned that Danae had a son, he got angry, put Danae and his son in a barrel and let her into the sea. When Perseus grew up, he defeated the malevolent gorgon -
Medusa. From one look at Medusa, people turned to stone. It was impossible to get close to her, but Athena (the goddess of wisdom and knowledge) gave Perseus a shield in the form of a mirror. After all, Perseus was, after all, the son of Zeus, that is, whatever you say, her half-brother. This mirror was obviously quite cloudy, so that the spell of Medusa's appearance through the reflection did not work, and Perseus could fight while looking at his shield. After several attempts, he managed to cut off Medusa's head, and he immediately hid this head in a bag so as not to accidentally look at it.
And flew home. Yes, I forgot to say. Perseus had sandals with which he could fly. Perseus obtained these sandals from the old women of the Harpies.
