From 69b2523cfb2f26806546afcb29d21b96f70523ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Meyer Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:54:17 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add new erinys encyclopedia entry --- dat/data.base | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base index 25607e3b3..209a7edab 100644 --- a/dat/data.base +++ b/dat/data.base @@ -1730,8 +1730,18 @@ A.S* [ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ] erinys erinyes - These female-seeming devils named after the Furies of mythology - attack hand to hand and poison their unwary victims as well. + Holy and pure, from Zeus Khthonios born + and Persephone, whom lovely locks adorn: + Whose piercing sight, with vision unconfin'd, + surveys the deeds of all the impious kind: + On Fate attendant, punishing the race + (with wrath severe) of deeds unjust and base. + Dark-colour'd queens, whose glittering eyes are bright + with dreadful, radiant, life-destroying, light: + Eternal rulers, terrible and strong, + to whom revenge, and tortures dire belong. + [ LXIX. To the Furies, The Orphic Hymns, + translated by Thomas Taylor ] ettin The two-headed giant, or ettin, is a vicious and unpredictable hunter that stalks by night and eats any meat it can catch.