the Furies

[Joseph Tracy]

	Three goddesses of vengeance: Tisiphone (avenger of murder), Megaera  
(the jealous) and Alecto (constant anger). They were also called the  
Daughters of the Night, but were actally the daughters of Uranus and  
Gaea. Another name for them is the Erinyes.
Without mercy, the Furies would punish all crime including the  
breaking of rules considering all aspects of society. They would  
strike the offenders with madness and never stopped following  
criminals. The worst of all crimes were patricide or matricide, and  
first and foremost, the Furies would punish this kind of crime.

They would also be the guardians of the law when the state had not  
yet intervened or did not exist, or when the crime was a crime of  
ethics and not actual law . For example, they would protect beggars  
and strangers, punish those who stole the birds' young and even look  
out for the dogs.

Horrible to look at, the Furies had snakes for hair and blood  
dripping from their eyes. They changed into the Eumenides, protectors  
of the suppliant, after Athena had made them merciful sparing  
Orestes, whom they had stalked for a long time after the murder of  
his mother and her lover.
 From these beings we have the words "furious" and "infuriated".


	3 bass players 3 goddesses . This is one of 2 or possibly 3 links to  
Classical greek myth in this chapter, Jason being the other. To me it  
amplifies the sense that justice is due. Dark Karma is being released  
both by the straight and longhair worlds- Manson, Heroin,  Nixon,  
Hoover's FBI, artist's consumed by paranoia/drug-abuse/ self  
obsessive narcissism, prostitution on all levels. I don't think it  
too much of a stretch to see a kind of reverse Opheus story going on   
with Coy Harlingen. Both are bitten by the snake of Heroin addiction  
and Coy (rather than Euridice/Hope)is sent to the underworld to  
recover his soul.  Music love and truth all play a roll in  
disentangling Coy from his visit in the underworld.  Doc is  a kind   
medium of Hope and is being sent deeper into Hades to bring  
something, someone, himself back to life.  He ends up in a  grey  
world between light and dark, heading south.