The Erinyes: The Three Goddess Of Vengeance

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You might have heard the Erinyes (Greek) or the Furies (Latin), the three goddess of Vengeance. The three Furies were Tisiphone, the goddess of murder, Megaera, the goddess of jealousy, and Alecto, the goddess of anger. The Furies lived the deepest, darkest realms of the Underworld is Tartarus. Where many souls of Titans and monsters were casted away. The goddess live and were loyal servants to the great mighty Hades and his wife, Persephone. They were “Hades’ torturers” of the House of Hades and punishes mortals/immortals. Greeks believe that Furies symbolizes to punish crime, grudges, and murders. Greeks referred the Furies as the Kindly One to stay safe from them. After crime of mortal, Kindly Ones specialty was to torture the person with
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