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The avenging Furies, hideous women with blood dripping from their eyes, relentlessly pursue those who commit murder and other crimes against fundamental morality. The Harpies, half woman, half crow or raptor, may originally have been conceived as ghosts or wind spirits, but are more familiar as loathsome creatures sent to harass and punish. Medusa was one of three terrifying Gorgons, gruesome women with dragonlike wings and snakes for hair, whose glance turned humans to stone. The Greek hero Perseus slew Medusa, and from her blood sprang the winged horse Pegasus.
Strong and swift, the eagle nests in high and inaccessible areas such as gods might inhabit—indeed, most of the Greek gods lived on Mount Olympus. Jupiter, the Roman god of rain, thunder, and lightning, is associated with eagles, as is his Greek counterpart Zeus. Roman emperors, claiming divine ancestry, adopted the eagle as their rightful sign. The eagle has been the emblem of several European states up through modern times. The United States of America shows a bald eagle on its national Great Seal, and on several coins.
When Indian rulers demand to know the secrets of airship manufacture, all these issues arise for the men who hold this knowledge. In each case, the artisan refuses to share the secret, though his livelihood, his life, or his spouse be forfeit. We may not learn much about the real Greeks from these myths, but we have no doubt about the ideals held by the Indians. In Norse mythology, as with Indian tales, there is also no issue of hubris. Mortal men who die valiantly in combat are brought up to Valhalla, the abode of the gods, by the warrior female Valkyries, there to feast and make ready for the final combat between the gods and their adversaries.