DEMO GORGON

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In Mythology, a mysterious divinity of antiquity, of whose origin, attributes, and history no satisfactory account can be given, in consequence of the obscurity in which they are enveloped. By some writers he is regarded as the author of creation; others consider him to have been a famous magician, to whose spell all the inhabitants of Hades were subjected; but all concur in viewing him as an object rather of terror than of worship: hence in the Paradise Lost (Book 2.), Milton speaks of ■ the dreaded name Of Demo gorgon. For further information the reader is referred to one of the most learned works of any age or country, the Dictionnaire de Trevoux. [s. 338]