THE ERINYES (Furies) were three goddesses of vengeance and retribution who punished men for crimes against the natural order. They were particularly concerned with homicide, unfilial conduct, offenses against the gods, and perjury. A victim seeking justice could call down the curse of the Erinys upon the criminal.
(The Erinyes, known as the Furies in Latin, are depicted as ugly women with snakes for hair. They are thought to have originated from the curses of the person who has been killed.) So now that Orestes has killed his mother, the Erinyes pursue Orestes and start to drive him mad.
Crimes which were especially likely to incur their wrath were those involving one's family and anything related to oaths. The Furies were also responsible for carrying out curses, and the punishments they dealt out included disease and madness.
Although the Furies seemed terrifying and sought vengeance, they were not considered deliberately evil. On the contrary, they represented justice and were seen as defenders of moral and legal order. They punished the wicked and guilty without pity but the good and innocent had little to fear from them.
The Roman goddesses of vengeance, the Furies lived in the underworld, where they tortured sinners. The children of Gaea and Uranus, they were usually characterized as three sisters: Alecto (“unceasing”), Tisiphone (“avenging murder”), and Megaera (“grudging”). Their counterparts in Greek mythology are the Erinyes.
Around the time Lyta Hall conceived her child, the Furies identified Dream as a target of coming filicide; because they might take action against Dream due to the boon of death he granted to his son, Orpheus.
THE ERINYES (Furies) were three goddesses of vengeance and retribution who punished men for crimes against the natural order. They were particularly concerned with homicide, unfilial conduct, offenses against the gods, and perjury.
The Female Furies are a group of women warriors and supervillains appearing in comics published by DC Comics. All of them are New Gods who serve Darkseid. They operate directly under Granny Goodness, who trains all of Darkseid's soldiers.
Furies, Greek Erinyes, also called Eumenides, in Greco-Roman mythology, the chthonic goddesses of vengeance. They were probably personified curses, but possibly they were originally conceived of as ghosts of the murdered.
The Furies are the female deities of vengeance in Greek mythology. Electra prays to the “dread Furies” to “punish” Clytemnestra for the murder of Agamemnon, and they represent revenge throughout the play.
The game begins with Kratos, who is imprisoned, chained, and tormented by the Furies for breaking his blood oath to Ares.
Because of their lack of godliness, the Graeae were given jurisdiction over a swamp. They were also given an eye and a tooth to share among themselves. This eye gave them great knowledge and wisdom.
The Birth of the Furies
After the genitals of our Titan were thrown in the sea, the blood that spilled from it eventually reached the shores. Indeed, it was led back to mother earth: Gaia. The interaction between the blood of Uranus and the body of Gaia created the three Furies.
She offers the Furies, and they accept, a new relationship with the Olympians, and a new significance in the hearts and minds of human beings. But in her final disposition, Athena does not try to alter the essential nature of the Furies or their inherent function.
According to Hesiod, the Furies sprang forth from the spilled blood of Uranus when he was castrated by his son Cronus. According to Aeschylus' Oresteia, they are the daughters of Nyx, in Virgil's version, they are daughters of Pluto (Hades) and Nox (Nyx).
The Erinyes, also known as the “Furies” or “Eumenides,” were the goddesses responsible for punishing wrongdoing and blood-guilt. They appeared above all when someone carried out a crime against a family member, but they were also invoked in cases of nonfamilial homicide, impiety, and perjury.
The Eumenides, or the Furies, were the Greek deities of divine vengeance and retribution. Because they were so terrifying, the Greeks sometimes referred to them as “The Kindly Ones,” not wanting to mention their names directly.
Apollo enters again and orders the Furies to leave his temple at once lest he set loose the power of his sacred arrows against them. He warns that his temple is too holy a place for them to defile by their presence and says that their rightful place is wherever blood is being shed and people are suffering.
In Orestes Pursued by the Furies, Orestes is being tormented and humiliated by the Furies. The Furies includes three sisters, Allecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone. As stated in Hesiod's Theogony, they were born from Uranus' blood that had fallen onto the earth after he was castrated (Morford et al.
1 Big Barda
The most iconic and powerful member of the Female Furies has to be Big Barda, a New God born on Apokolips over 250 years ago.
The Furies were born out of the blood that was spilled during the castration of Uranus. Technically, the Furies are children of Uranus and Gaia, the gods of heaven and Earth. The Furies were often draped in black, with wings and snakes for hair.
There are male Light Furies - the Night Furies and Light Furies are both Furies, clearly, but different sub-species.
17 The Furies
The Three Fury sisters are the ones that serve as the main antagonists of God of War: Ascension. They're pretty unique characters with abilities that easily put them on par or above some of the lesser gods.
These goddesses are known by many names, Furies being their Roman name. ln Greek mythology they are known as the Erinyes, or the Eumenides. Sometimes they are referred to as Dirae or'Dread Ones'for their work with Zeus exacting divine justice-kind of like Zeus'Angels.
Children of the Furies can bend darkness and shadows to their will, as their grandmother is Nyx. They are also more powerful at night. Children of the Furies are grandchildren to Ouranos, the primordial of the sky.