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„just as Athena told her they did: in their artworks, in their poems and plays, in their philosophising. She isn't sure now that they need the actual gods at all - only the versions of them they construct for themselves.
And the balance of power has shifted so far that it's the gods who need them.“

'What monsters?‘ Hera snaps back to attention.
Zeus waves a hand. 'Creatures like the Gorgon.' Hera frowns. 'Medusa wasn't a scourge, though. She hid herself in a cave so that she wouldn't harm anyone after Athena transformed her.'