Perseus is this young cocky kid who thinks he's the shit because Zeus is his father and he has wings. He has also just defeated the gorgon Medussa and he carries her head around like a medal to show everyone how awesome he is. So he's flying along and decides he's tired and wants to bed down for the night. So he asks Atlas, the land owner he happens to be flying over, if he can stay.
Atlas is this huge Titan and his land is vast and wide with plenty of room for a visitor, but Atlas long ago was warned that a son of Zeus would come and despoil all his trees of their golden fruit. Thinking that Perseus is this son (in actuality it is Hercules) he insults the boy by saying, along the lines of, "no you cannot stay here. you are not the son of zeus. and you are not awesome!"
Well this pisses dear Perseus off so he throws a punch. and soon the two men are throwing each other around in a pushing match. but Perseus is getting his ass kicked because he is no match for the Titan. so as a sore loser he says "okay okay i'll leave. but before I go, here is my farewell present." and he lifts up the head of Medussa.
It is too late for Atlas to turn away and he stares into her eyes. He is transformed into a huge mountain mass, his hair and beard become trees, his arms and shoulder blades become the ridges, his bones become stones, and his head must hold up the heavens and stars forever.
*In modern days, this story repeats itself, for me, most visibly in assuming. "You know what happens when you assume- you make an ass out of u and me" OR you insult a powerful prick who turns you into a mountain. potatoe-potato!
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