Malcolm S. Bryant, Robert D. Adlard & Lester R.G. Cannon 2006. Gordian Worms: Factsheet. Queensland Museum. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-07-22 . Retrieved 2008-03-10. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link) Kameron is using a flat plastic tool to unclog his drain, as you can see in the first portion of our video above. This handy plumbing tool is called a hair drain snake (or hair snake). They can be made out of plastic or metal. But the plastic will work fine for our purposes. Powered drain snakes provide extra muscle to break through tough clogs, but they also reduce user fatigue because the electric motor is doing all the work. Some models even have a cable that automatically retracts by pushing a button, making recovery and cleanup easier. Just keep in mind that powered drain snakes typically cost more than manual drain snakes.

Medusa sculpture by Luciano Garbati, which portrays her clutching the severed head of Perseus (2008) [37] Marconi, Clemente. Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic Greek World: The Metopes of Selinus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.Did you know that “how to use drain snake” (or a plastic hair snake) is searched nearly 4,000 times a month on Google? It’s even more than that for “unclog a bathroom sink.” The drain/hair snake seems to be in high demand these days by America’s bathrooms. There’s nothing like taking the time to show your hair some TLC with the best shampoo, conditioner, hydrating masks, and hair glosses to ensure that it’s soft and shiny. But if you have long hair (or live with people who have long hair), then you know what a pain it is to have your luxe haircare routine result in a drain that’s clogged to oblivion with hair. Add in things like dirt, body wash, shaving cream, and other product runoff, and it’s easy to find yourself dealing with a gross shower situation. But fear not, we’re here to save the day/your plumbing bill with the most game-changing invention: shower drain hair catchers. Baking soda, on the other hand, has many benefits. Not only does it help dissolve the hair down your drain, but it also has disinfectant properties that can fight odor, bacteria, and fungi. We call that a win-win. Instructions for Cleaning Your Shower Drain with Baking Soda Dominique. " Chef Reportedly Dies After Being By Decapitated Snake, But Is That Even Possible?" The Huffington Post. Updated September 3, 2014. Accessed: July 30, 2016.&n

Alterity is at the foundation of Medusa’s force, which was alive and present in the minds and memories of ancient viewers. Her very presence is foreign, dangerous, and potent, as are her specific characteristics. In the Odyssey , her head was kept in Hades to drive the living from the world of the dead. The Perseus myth provides us with the phenomenon that her face and gaze could turn men to stone. Pindar preserves the tale that the Gorgon’s cries were awesome and awful. Perseus and Athena were required to control such threatening forces and harness their power. This harness was taken up by ancient Greek artists, who represented the Gorgon across all periods and in all media. Medusa is a deadly and cryptic other, but she is also ubiquitous, with an undeniable energy that inspired artists to repeat her semblance and story in diverse ways across literature, lore, and art through ancient Greece, Rome, and beyond. Harrison, Jane Ellen (1903) 3rd ed. 1922. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion,: "The Ker as Gorgon"These are the 5 methods that we most often recommend. One of them is bound to remove or dissolve the hair in your drain. 1. The Hair Snake Method Kounteya. “ No More the Land of Snake Charmers.” The Times of India. July 25, 2006. Accessed: May 18, 2015. Elana Dykewomon's 1976 collection of lesbian stories and poems, They Will Know Me by My Teeth, features a drawing of a Gorgon on its cover. Its purpose was to act as a guardian for female power, keeping the book solely in the hands of women. Stephen Wilk, author of Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon, questioned Medusa's enduring status among the feminist movement. He believes that one reason for her longevity may be her role as a protector, fearsome and enraged. "Only the Gorgon has the savage, threatening appearance to serve as an immediately recognized symbol of rage and a protector of women's secrets," wrote Wilk. [28] From then on, similarly to Euryale and Stheno, her older Gorgon sisters, Medusa was depicted with bronze hands and wings of gold. Poets claimed that she had a great boar-like tusk and tongue lolling between her fanged teeth. Writhing snakes were entwining her head in place of hair. Her face was so hideous and her gaze so piercing that the mere sight of her was sufficient to turn a man to stone. Medusa and Poseidon

Scientists Investigate ‘Mad Snake Disease” which Makes Captive Pythons Tie Themselves in Knots.” Daily Mail. Updated August 15, 2012. Accessed: May 18, 2015. Main article: Cultural depictions of Medusa and Gorgons An embossed plaque in the Art Nouveau style from 1911 Perseus with the Head of Medusa (1554), Benvenuto Cellini Medusa (c. 1597), by Caravaggio Scientists believe humans are predisoposed to fear snakes • The fear of snakes ( ophiophobia or herpetophobia) is one of the most common phobias worldwide. Approximately 1/3 of all adult humans are ophidiophobic, which suggests that humans have an innate, evolutionary fear of snakes. [9]Probably the feminine present participle of medein, "to protect, rule over" ( American Heritage Dictionary; compare Medon, Medea, Diomedes, etc.). If not, it is from the same root, and is formed after the participle. OED 2001 revision, s.v.; medein in LSJ.

Cleaning hair out of a shower or tub drain by hand can be gross for some people (wear gloves!). It’s certainly more tedious. But you can easily catch the most obvious hair clogs this way. Open the drain, reach in, and pull out the clog. Use tweezers or needle-nose pliers to reach deeper. 4. The Auger Method (a.k.a “Plumbing Snake”) Unfortunately, chemical drain cleaners are harsh on your pipes (and body) and we don’t recommend them. They can actually cause more damage that can lead to corrosion, leaks, and costly water damage. How to Clean Hair Out of Your Shower Drain Pretty simple, really. It’s a tool used by plumbers to remove whatever is clogging your sink. Its sole purpose is to get your water flowing smoothly again. And it works especially well to unclog a bathroom sink.In 2009, a farm worker in East Africa survived an epic 3-hour battle with a 12-foot python after accidentally stepping on the large snake. It coiled around the man and carried him into a tree. The man wrapped his shirt over the snake’s mouth to prevent it from swallowing him, and he was finally rescued by police after calling for help on his cell phone. [16] Just as Medusa exists in multiple types of stories in the mythological record, she is also portrayed in multiple ways in ancient art. Her appearance changes drastically through the centuries, but she is always recognizable due to her striking frontality. It is rare in Greek art for a figure to face directly out, but in almost all representations of Medusa, despite style and medium, she stares ahead and uncompromisingly confronts the viewer. Campbell, Joseph (1968). The Masks of God, Vol. 3: Occidental Mythology. London: Penguin Books. pp.152–153. ISBN 978-0140194418. We have already spoken of Medusa and of the powers of her blood to render both life and death. We may now think of the legend of her slayer, Perseus, by whom her head was removed and presented to Athene. Professor Hainmond assigns the historical King Perseus of Mycenae to a date c. 1290 B.C., as the founder of a dynasty; and Robert Graves–whose two volumes on The Greek Myths are particularly noteworthy for their suggestive historical applications–proposes that the legend of Perseus beheading Medusa means, specifically, that 'the Hellenes overran the goddess's chief shrines' and 'stripped her priestesses of their Gorgon masks', the latter being apotropaic faces worn to frighten away the profane. That is to say, there occurred in the early thirteenth century B.C. an actual historic rupture, a sort of sociological trauma, which has been registered in this myth, much as what Freud terms the latent content of a neurosis is registered in the manifest content of a dream: registered yet hidden, registered in the unconscious yet unknown or misconstrued by the conscious mind. And in every such screening myth–in every such mythology {that of the Bible being, as we have just seen, another of the kind}–there enters in an essential duplicity, the consequences of which cannot be disregarded or suppressed. Make sure you have a trash bag nearby. You’ll want to clean hair and debris from the drain snake and place into a trash bag. In 1940, Sigmund Freud's "Das Medusenhaupt ( Medusa's Head)" was published posthumously. In Freud's interpretation: "To decapitate = to castrate. The terror of Medusa is thus a terror of castration that is linked to the sight of something. Numerous analyses have made us familiar with the occasion for this: it occurs when a boy, who has hitherto been unwilling to believe the threat of castration, catches sight of the female genitals, probably those of an adult, surrounded by hair, and essentially those of his mother." [19] In this perspective the "ravishingly beautiful" Medusa (see above) is the mother remembered in innocence; before the mythic truth of castration dawns on the subject. Classic Medusa, in contrast, is an Oedipal/libidinous symptom. Looking at the forbidden mother (in her hair-covered genitals, so to speak) stiffens the subject in illicit desire and freezes him in terror of the Father's retribution. There are no recorded instances of Medusa turning a woman to stone.