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Tisiphone

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Tisiphone is one of the Furies or Erinyes in Greek mythology. Tisiphone is the avenger of murder. The Erinyes were formed when the blood of Uranus fell on Gaia when the son of Uranus, Cronus, killed him. The Furies pursued particularly heinous criminals and drove them mad. Their most famous victim was Orestes, whose crime was matricide. The names of the other Erinyes were Alecto and Megaera.
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