If they'd had contact with the Hindus, which isn't that farfetched, then perhaps. But probably something all their own.
If they'd had contact with the Hindus, which isn't that farfetched, then perhaps. But probably something all their own.
I'm wondering not only that golden charm and the Hindu Kali are from the same source, but also if what later became the Gorgon as well.
It's wikipedia so my apologies, but...
"Etymology: The name derives from the ancient Greek word γοργός gorgós, which means "grim, dreadful", and appears to come from the same root as the Sanskrit Sanskrit: गर्जन, garjana, which is defined as a guttural sound, similar to the growling of a beast,[1] thus possibly originating as an onomatopoeia."
