Tag: mythology

The word ‘fury,’ as we use it today, implies chaotic, unfocused frenzy, but the Furies themselves embodied justified anger, stemming from an adamantine moral code. In Homer, they are curses made flesh, released upon those who commit a crime or threaten the natural order. Seneca the Younger calls them ‘they who with awful brows investigate men’s crimes and sift out ancient wrongs.’ In Ovid, they are the chthonic guards of souls judged too wicked for paradise.
They are fearsome-looking creatures, unsmiling, uncrying (except, Ovid tells us, when Orpheus plays). They bristle with snakes—in their hair, wreathing their limbs, fastening their garments, held in their hands like whips. They dress in black or blood-red. Sometimes they breathe poison. This grotesque image might seem to be at odds with a righteous heart. But for anyone who might not be blameless, anger with reason and purpose and a will of iron is even more frightening than tumultuous, flailing rage.

Jess Zimmerman, “Anger That Can Save the World: On Justice, Feminism, and the Furies”
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odditiesoflife:

“Femme Fatale” Vampires, Part 2

Bolesław Biegas (1877–1954) was a Polish surrealist artist (painter and sculptor), best known for his “vampire-as-femme fatale” style of painting as seen above. Biegas created a small museum for his art in Paris, France, called the Musée Boleslas Biegas.

  • The Third Vampire Metamorphosis, 1916 – 1917
  • The Vampire in the Form of the Serpent, 1916 – 1917
  • Ironic Fight Vampires, 1915-1916
  • The Vampire in the Form of the Elephant, 1915 – 1916
  • Humanity’s Victory Over the Vampires, 1918

cryptids-of-the-world:

The Qallupilluit are humanoid creatures from Inuit mythology. The Qallupilluit are described as tall marine humanoid creatures having webbing between their fingers, long dark hair, scaly skin similar to that of a fish, and they have razor sharp teeth. They are also known to wear clothes with pouches so they can put children in them and take underwater to devour them. They are often seen under the ice tapping on it to get a childs attention. It is said the waters become harsh and dangerous when they are present.