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And he didn't breathe.Finally, having somehow dragged him away from the fire, those around him saw what he was holding, tightly clutched in his thin, frozen fist... It was a bright hair ribbon, the kind that young Occitan brides wore before their wedding... Which meant - everything just a few hours ago he was still a happy young groom...
The wind still bothered him; he had turned gray during the day. long hair, quietly playing in the burnt strands... But the man no longer felt or heard anything. Having found his beloved again, he walked with her hand in hand along the sparkling starry road of Qatar, meeting their new stellar future... He was again very happy.
Still wandering around the dying fire, people with faces frozen in grief were looking for the remains of their relatives and friends... Also, not feeling the piercing wind and cold, they rolled out the burnt bones of their sons, daughters, sisters and brothers, wives and husbands from the ashes. ... Or even just friends... From time to time, someone would cry and pick up a ring blackened in the fire... a half-burnt shoe... and even the head of a doll, which, having rolled to the side, did not have time to burn completely...
Fury. A sort of Medusa Gorgon with a swarming ball of snakes instead of hair. The Furies appeared at the first crime committed. In ancient Greek mythology, when Kronos wounded his father Uranus, drops of blood falling gave birth to furies. Creatures born of Gaia are often mentioned in many tales and legends... In Roman mythology they are called Furies, in ancient Greek goddesses of revenge are called Erinyes. If you believe one of the legends, then the Erinyes are the children of Nyx and Erebus, deities of night darkness and complete darkness. Their number varies - according to the Orphics, these are the nine daughters of Zeus Chthonius and Persephone, Pseudo-Heraclitus claims that there are thirty thousand of them. Later, you can find the poets' judgments that there are three of them - the envious Megaera, the embodiment of vengefulness and anger, Tisiphone, avenging the murder and unforgiving Alecto. The sisters came to light from the underground kingdom of Hades and Persephone in order to ignite in them an insane, frantic anger and ignite revenge. Tisiphone punished the guilty, beating them with a biting whip and threatening them with vipers. Alecto, having turned into a snake and saturated with the poison of the Gorgon, penetrated into the chest of the queen of the Latins, Amata, and caused madness, filling her entire being with anger. Among her crimes is also the case when she, having become an ugly hag, unleashed a terrible bloodshed, influencing Turnus, the leader of the Rutuli.
There is a myth according to which the Furies persecuted Orestes because he killed his mother on the orders of Apollo. Trying to protect him from the attacks of angry goddesses, Apollo was able to temporarily put them to sleep. Athena - Pallas acted much more wisely, acquitting Orestes with the help of the first trial. But they continued to rage, because they are also goddesses of remorse, punishing a person for his sins. Athena managed to pacify the seething anger of the Erinyes, convincing them to stay in Attica and promising that all Athenians would henceforth give them honors. So the Erinyes, having calmed down, turned into Eumenides and began to live in a cave on the slope of the Athenian Acropolis.
Later, the word became a common noun; it was often used to describe something evil and furious, belonging to the female gender. Something swift, flying and angry, destroying everything in its path.
In Russian, the word “fury” is quite often used in another sense. This is what they call angry, nervous, hot-tempered and angry women. Raging for any reason. Husbands often use irony, calling their frenzied wife such a far from affectionate word. The comparison “turned into a fury” is especially common, that is, suddenly a kind and quiet woman suddenly became grumpy. For me, for example, this is always a strong catalyst. I don’t want to be awarded such a nickname and I always try to restrain my emotions.
It was interesting to watch a video clip of one of the domestic pop groups called “Furia”. Here, in the form of a fury, a fatal brunette appeared, distinguished by her appetizing and sexy form. She also called for an unconventional and free lifestyle. Later, a transvestite appeared, dressed in that same “little black dress” and parading along the catwalk. Apparently, the definition of “fury” has many other meanings, hitherto unknown to us.
Often in people’s conversations you can hear “What a fury!” or “Look, this is a real fury!” From the context of the conversation, it is obvious that by this definition people usually refer to women who, in an evil frenzy, are capable of destroying everything in their path, including various kinds of obstacles, and it is better not to fall under their hot hand at such moments.
Furies - who are they?
A goddess distinguished by frenzied violence and uncontrollable rage - that’s who the fury is. The definition of the word makes it clear that it comes from the Latin Furiae, furire, which means "to rage, to rage." From here it is clear that in an allegorical sense, people mean evil women, terrible in their anger and revenge - after all, initially it was the feminine, and not the masculine, creatures who personified the terrible punishment for their sins.
Furies in mythology
These creatures came to us from ancient Roman mythology, and the Romans borrowed them from the Greeks, who called the Furies Erinyes, and later Eumenides. And, if among the Romans the Furies are the goddess of revenge, then the literal translation from Greek gives a completely different definition - venerable, merciful. Where did such discrepancies in the designation of this concept come from?
Furies in Roman mythology
Furious, bloodthirsty, insatiable, never resting, terrible creatures with bloodshot faces, forever pursuing a person who has committed an unforgivable act - that’s what the furies are in Roman mythology. Since the Romans borrowed the entire pantheon of gods from the Greeks almost literally, without particularly going into the subtleties and nuances of details and definitions, the furies were endowed with the same functions that the early Greeks assigned to them. Later, the mocking atheistic Romans, like our contemporaries, called furies women who fell into violent rage.
Furies in Greek mythology
But among the ancient Greeks, their unstoppable Erinnyes evolved to the Eumenides, who personified a fair and impartial court. According to Greek mythology, the goddesses of revenge were born during the first crime committed by the gods - when Kronos, who decided to seize power, killed his father Uranus, and from drops of the latter’s blood the Eumenides arose. Initially, the Greeks believed that there were a lot of them - up to thirty thousand, but then Aeschylus brought out only three in his tragedies - Tisiphone (who never tires of taking revenge), Alecto (who does not know how to forgive) and Megaera (a malicious envious woman).
Goddesses, constantly thirsting for revenge for murder - that’s who the furies are in Ancient Greece. Pallas Athena persuaded the Erinyes to settle permanently in Ancient Greece, assuring them that the inhabitants would honor them as one of the most respected goddesses, and the Erinyes relented. Later, they personified a strict and impartial trial of those suspected of terrible acts and were already called eumenides (respectable, merciful). Aeschylus generally identified them with the Moirai, goddesses of fate.
What do furies look like?
Scary old women with snake-shaped hair, bared teeth and clawed hands outstretched towards the criminal - this is roughly what the furies look like in ancient Greek mythology, and indeed, vindictiveness and a thirst for murder cannot look attractive, an envious woman is not tender and feminine, so such images are repulsive and inspiring horror and disgust. When they say that someone behaves like a fury, Everyday life, people are not inclined to attribute positive traits to this image.
A fury woman is, as a rule, a person who does not know how to control herself, who brings down all her emotions on those around her, indiscriminately destroying everything in her path. Essentially, in our current understanding, this is hysterical. And hysteria is a mental disorder, and the same ancient Greeks and Romans knew about it. Plato called hysteria “rabies of the womb.” Such women look extremely unattractive, as evidenced by popular expression“suddenly became a fury” when a seemingly calm woman suddenly, with a wave of her wand, turned into a furious hag.
1. fury I f. A very poisonous Australian snake of the slate family. II 1. colloquial Angry, furious woman. 2. Used as a blasphemous or abusive word. 2. Fury w. Each of the three goddesses of punishment and vengeance (in ancient Roman mythology). Dictionary Efremova
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From ancient Roman mythology. Furies in Ancient Rome the three goddesses of vengeance were called (in Greek - Erinyes). In ancient Greek literature, they were first described by the playwright Aeschylus (525-456 BC) as disgusting old women with bloodshot eyes, bared teeth, protruding tongues and snakes on their heads instead of hair.
Allegorically: an angry, spiteful woman (ironic).
In the Russian language of the 18th - early 19th centuries. this word also meant rage, anger.
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In Roman mythology - each of the three goddesses of vengeance (in Greek mythology - Erinyes). Aeschylus, who brought the Erinyes onto the stage, depicted them as disgusting old women with snakes for hair, with bloodshot eyes, protruding tongues and bared teeth. A symbol of vengeance, figuratively an angry, enraged woman.
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Furia: Furia is the goddess of vengeance in Roman mythology. In ancient Greek mythology, the Furies correspond to the Erinyes. Fury is a grumpy, angry woman (see: Dahl, Ushakov) “Fury” is a fighter of the British Royal Air Force. Giacomo Furia ... ... Wikipedia
See grumpy... Dictionary of Russian synonyms and similar expressions. under. ed. N. Abramova, M.: Russian Dictionaries, 1999. fury is angry, grumpy; vixen, witch, feisty, harpy, Erinnia, revenge, feisty Dictionary of Russian synonyms ... Synonym dictionary
- (lat. furia, fury, frenzy, madness, rage). The goddess of vengeance, one of the three hellish goddesses, punishers of criminals, depicted with whips in their hands and snakes instead of hair; hence generally: an angry, grumpy woman. Dictionary of foreign words... Dictionary of foreign words of the Russian language
fury- and, f. furie f. , lat. furia. 1. trans., colloquial About a very angry, grumpy woman. BAS 1. This fury, using the stupid gullibility of her husband for evil, will contribute a vile incredible thing to the innocent Hippolytus. Fluff. Rebuttal to critics... ...
Historical Dictionary of Gallicisms of the Russian Language Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary
FURY, furies, female. (lat. furia, each of the three goddesses of vengeance in ancient mythology). 1. Grumpy, angry woman (book). “She... is such a fury that God forbid.” A. Ostrovsky. “I found a landowner, a countless fool, and a wife, a despicable fury.”... ... Ozhegov's Explanatory Dictionary
FURY, and, female. (colloquial). An angry, grumpy woman [after the name of the avenger goddess in ancient Roman mythology]. Ozhegov's explanatory dictionary. S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova. 1949 1992 … Women an angry, frantic woman; from Greek theology. Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary. IN AND. Dahl. 1863 1866 …
Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary - (Vixen) foreigner: fiercely evil woman Wed. She... is such a fury that God forbid (to have anything to do with her). Ostrovsky. In a busy place. 1, 3. Wed. I found a landowner, a countless fool, and a wife, a despicable fury, whose hellish disposition brings misfortune... ...
fury Michelson's Large Explanatory and Phraseological Dictionary - FURY, i, f Mythological creature in the form of an old ugly woman, one of the three goddesses of revenge (in ancient Roman mythology). The fury took revenge on the ancient heroes for their exploits...
Explanatory dictionary of Russian nouns Fury, frenzy, beginning. from Peter I; see Smirnov 318. Later also about an angry woman. Through him. Fury fury (from 1600; see Schultz I, 229) or Polish. furia – the same from lat. furia fury, goddess of vengeance: furere to rage...
Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language by Max Vasmer
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