As long as it’s not the other interpretation

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That happened in Vietnam too. And Libya. And Venezuela… And the Spanish Republic… And

Well, first off, because the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes only invaded the British Isles after the Western Roman Empire fell, second off because it was never a Latin culture outside of certain cities it was still, broadly speaking, Celtic and would remain so through several more waves of Sea Germans and their dubious understandings of consent, property ownership, and human kindness.

Also, it’s not just “Anglia,” Angle tribal territory was a pretty significant portion of Jutland, that peninsula region it’s part of.

Speaking of which, as mentioned before, the Saxons and Jutes, the other tribes on the peninsula, also invaded with the Angles so that whole damn idea of “Anglo culture” deriving from Anglia alone is just agenda driven revisionism.

Hell, what about the Norman invasion? Norman, aka Frenchified Viking culture, was just as impactful on what became English culture, and Rollo’s crew of ne’er-do-wells were largely recruited in Norway prior to conquering the northern French coast.

And let’s not even get STARTED on Latin culture apparently having no cultural impact through the majority of the eastern Roman empire, including Greece and Anatolia, despite the Eastern Roman Empire only falling in 1453.

Like, are you fucking seriously not going to give the Byzantines a nod while you pretend Romania is a Latin culture?

I SPIT ON THIS MAP

Well the vibe is still broadly correct tho. Replace “Anglia” with just, you know, England, and it’s better, even if it’s hilariously Eurocentric. I realize the maker broadly wanted a global cultural impact map but that notably shortchanges at least the Arabs and the Mongolians and/or Turkic peoples in the map painting departments.

“Based on user data, we have scrapped the whole ‘questing’ system and turned BG3 into a Halsin dating sim.”

It’s worth noting the mutable nature of myths in Medusa’s case in particular.

In the oldest forms of the story where she is recognizable as her own character, she was just a hideous monster who turned people to stone with her sheer ugliness and was, presumably, a bit of a public health hazard. This being when Medusa is a Gorgon, one of three. Perfect quest bait for a hero. Add in a King trying to get him killed with the quest so he can bang Perseus’s mom and you’ve got enough drama to keep people interested.

That, however, wasn’t sexy enough for the horny ass Greek artists, who began depicting her as a beautiful woman with snake hair and the myth changed into the more dramatic form of her being cursed by Minerva for defiling her temple with Poseidon (consent levels variable by story teller).

This changed the story from a generic heroic quest into the tragic form popular today, that tripped over its own horniness and fumbled the character motivations.

Possibly deliberately, as the myths became propaganda tools with various city states claiming this god or that hero as their patrons. And, ironically, the idea of Smexy Snake Lady Medusa might be a return to form, but that requires bringing up the phrase “proto-Indo-European” and you can’t prove any of it, so all I’ll say is, food for thought, Athena’s early depictions also sometimes showed her as a sexy snake lady.

As a fun note, the idea of using a mirror to either petrify her with her own visage or to indirectly see her is a relatively new addition to the myth. In the shift from “hideous monster” to “smoking babe with magic snake hair and a gaze attack” there were versions of Perseus where his clever plan to slay her was… Killing her in her sleep.