"Recognising the anger
trying not to see red and disappear
or end up with time lost
to the Bermuda triangle of troubled,
strangulated till I black out:
the hurricane walks."
or end up with time lost
to the Bermuda triangle of troubled,
strangulated till I black out:
the hurricane walks."
The piece below is me channeling an almost imperceptible fraction of Three Furies deadly deamonism. While pursuing an understanding of women's anger in the 21st Century for a project with the same name, I discovered that The Furies are not often fairly depicted. What they represent is often misinterpreted and the term daemon related to dark forces and something evil. But this is not the case.
Their aka name is "The Kindly Ones", who when incanted, rain torment as retribution upon an offender and render them a defenseless, powerless victim under the focus of their wrath. But summoner beware, you have lifted the lid off volcano. Get out of the way of the lava flow.
"Daemon" is actually a much older form of "demon"; daemons have no
particular bias towards good or evil, but rather serve to help define a
person's character or personality. The ancient Greeks' concept of a
"personal daemon" was similar to the modern concept of a 'guardian
angel'—eudaemonia is the state of being helped or protected by a kindly spirit.
However, when the Three Furies were being The Eumenides, "The Kindly Ones", they were making full acknowledgement of an injustice done to Family, to Woman, to Child. They metered out terrorr and torment to the degree of punishment they perceived appropriate
