... a violent cycle of blood for the family. What follows a curse is purging, another magical element of this world. This is done for the purpose of retribution. Purging is conducted by a god who sheds animal blood in order to wash away human blood. The act is supposed to be an endpoint to a curse. In the Eumenides, the Furies are responsible for all ... the Furies who take a subservient place to Apollo and the new gods. By the end of the Eumenides, Athena is brought in to solve the conflict. She is a more ambiguous god. While she is better represented by the vales of the new gods, she has ...

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