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The Furies -
As servants of Hades and Persephone, they oversaw the torture of the damned in Tartarus. The Evolution into "Kindly Ones"
They were famously depicted with snakes for hair, bat wings, and eyes that wept blood. They hounded their victims into madness or physical illness, as seen in their pursuit of Orestes after he killed his mother, Clytemnestra. The Furies
The Furies, known in Greek as the , were chthonic deities of vengeance and retribution who personified the moral outrage following crimes against the natural order—particularly matricide and perjury. Born from the blood of the castrated Uranus, they were the relentless enforcers of justice before the rise of civil law. Origins and Identity As servants of Hades and Persephone, they oversaw
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