From:          "Nikholas F. Toledo Zu" <niftol@i-manila.com.ph>
Subject:       Re: [FFML] [sF] [OMG!] Rewriting Mythology

So they were the Erinyes (Furies, AKA The Kindly ones) rather than
the Norns.. 

Allecto (She who rests not) = Urd?
Tisiphone (Avenger of murder) = Bell-chan?
Megaera (The jealous one) = Skuld?  (Well, she is isn't she!)

I actually have no idea.  I just used the Sandman concept of the
Three Who Are One, plus the fact that they avenged any murder of
within the family blood.

(Incidentally, the Kindly Ones did adopt the sisters' names [Vol. 2
No. 2].)

According to Sandman:

The Hecateae, the Three Who Are One, represented many cultures' 
concepts of 3 goddesses.

Skald, Verthandi, and Urth were the Norn aspect of the Hecateae.

(This is the names given in Sandman- for all intents and purposes, in 
Dire Fates, the Hecateae are being treated separately from the Norn 
sisters. Not that we'll mention them.)

Other names the Hecateae appeared as:

Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, Greek aspect of Fates.

And they were also the Kindly Ones, the Eumenides.
When they became the Furies, the Erinyes, the Goddesses of 
Revenge, they PUNISHED.

Alecto- The Unceasing
Megaera- The Grudging
Tisiphone- The Avenging

(Note: I'm not sure who the middle sister was, but I presumed it was 
Megaera)

I think, personalitywise, Belldandy is more Megaera, the Grudging, 
and Skuld the Avenger. Gods know, Urd is unrelenting.
 

***

Meager homage to the genius of the Sandman.

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There's just ONE slight problem with the spamfic:

Weren't the Erinyes after people who violated filial piety (as in, 
parents being killed by children?), rather than sibling piety?
Of course, they DID punish people who performed perjury, murder, 
ingratitude, disrespect, harshness, and the laws of 
hospitality, as well as filial piety, but in Sandman, it seemed, they 
were punishing those who violated filial piety.

-David Tai