Medusa was not a deity! My daughter who knows her Greek mythology like the back of her hand is now hyperventilating!
“Medusa was not a deity!”
To you. But to this woman, she is. That is, she treated Medusa-like a deity by praying to her.
Personally, I’m not willing to get involved in a theological debate within a religion I am not part of. There is already too much debate within my own (broadly described as Christendom).
1 Corinthians 8:5-6 NKJV
For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.
1 Corinthians 10:20 NKJV
Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.
Whether the Greeks considered Medusa a god, demigod, or mortal those who idolize her are really interacting with demons who operate through the myth to spread false religion and destruction.