the Furies

[Bekah]

Oh wow -  how did I miss this?   Thanks,  Joseph!   :-)

Bekah


On Oct 16, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Joseph Tracy wrote:

> 	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.