Furiae

Appearances

 * Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE: Raptor Race

History
In Greek mythology the Erinyes or Furies in Roman mythology were female, deities of vengeance or supernatural personifications of the anger of the dead. They represent regeneration and the potency of creation, which both consumes and empowers.

When the Titan Cronos castrated his father Ouranos and threw his genitalia into the sea, the Erinyes emerged from the drops of blood, while Aphrodite was born from the seafoam. Their number is usually left indeterminate. Virgil, probably working from an Alexandrian source, recognized three: Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone. Dante followed Virgil in depicting the same three-charactered triptych of Erinyes. The heads of the Erinyes were wreathed with serpents and their eyes dripped with blood, rendering their appearance rather horrific. Sometimes they had the wings of a bat or bird and the body of a dog.