The Stone-Gazers

11 figures A family: figures with traits in common

Sight as a weapon is one of folklore's most durable inventions, and this family holds its purest practitioners: the gorgon whose face ends the viewer, the basilisk hatched wrong and lethal from the first glance. What binds them is an inversion. Looking, our chief instrument of safety, becomes the wound itself.

the gorgon basilisk complex — petrifying and deadly gaze (medusa, basilisk, cockatrice, catoblepas)

What binds them

• Petrifying gaze · 19 of them
• Deadly gaze · 10 of them
• Petrifying gaze turns victims to stone · 6 of them
• Bears the world on its back · 3 of them
• Body of cosmic immeasurable size · 3 of them
• Deceived or repelled by mirror reflection · 3 of them
• Born from rooster egg incubated by toad · 1 of them
• Snake hair · 1 of them

Drawn from 6 groups of traditions: European 5 · Middle eastern 2 · South american 1 · None 1 · African 1 · South asian 1

Members

• Aido Hwedo
• Akupara
• Bahamut
• Basilisco Chilote
• Basilisk
• Catoblepas
• Cockatrice
• Gorgon
• Kundrav
• Medusa
• Stheno

Resemblance is not descent; descent is drawn only as the gold lines on the constellation. All families.