Automated Monsters of Vengeance: Comparing Goddesses in Ancient Greece and Hindu India

Monsters that act “automatically,” without thought or conscious awareness, constitute a category whose primary exemplar in American culture is the zombie. However, automaticity can be found in other realizations of the monstrous, including in ancient Greece and contemporary India. This paper compare...

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Autor principal:	Nuckolls Charles W.
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Publicado:	Sciendo 2021
Materias:	automaticity chthonic monsters greece south india Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:cd9d593051684e2da1349c860bd577f92021-12-05T14:11:06ZAutomated Monsters of Vengeance: Comparing Goddesses in Ancient Greece and Hindu India1339-787710.2478/eas-2021-0019https://doaj.org/article/cd9d593051684e2da1349c860bd577f92021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.2478/eas-2021-0019https://doaj.org/toc/1339-7877Monsters that act “automatically,” without thought or conscious awareness, constitute a category whose primary exemplar in American culture is the zombie. However, automaticity can be found in other realizations of the monstrous, including in ancient Greece and contemporary India. This paper compares the two. In Greece, the beings known as Eryines hunt and attack people who are guilty of crimes against members of their own kin group. One of the best examples is Orestes, whom the Erinyes pursue relentlessly because he killed his own mother, Clytemnestra. On the southeastern coast of India, among members of the Jalari fishing caste, there is a spirit called Sati Polalmma, who, like the Erinyes, attacks those who have broken oaths made to kin, especially oaths that concern sexual fidelity. The Erinyes and Sati Polamma are chthonic beings, associated with the earth, and are said to predate the patriarchal order of male deities. The paper explores automatic action as a characteristic of one category of the monstrous.Nuckolls Charles W.Sciendoarticleautomaticitychthonic monstersgreecesouth indiaEthnology. Social and cultural anthropologyGN301-674ENEthnologia Actualis, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 25-36 (2021)
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description	Monsters that act “automatically,” without thought or conscious awareness, constitute a category whose primary exemplar in American culture is the zombie. However, automaticity can be found in other realizations of the monstrous, including in ancient Greece and contemporary India. This paper compares the two. In Greece, the beings known as Eryines hunt and attack people who are guilty of crimes against members of their own kin group. One of the best examples is Orestes, whom the Erinyes pursue relentlessly because he killed his own mother, Clytemnestra. On the southeastern coast of India, among members of the Jalari fishing caste, there is a spirit called Sati Polalmma, who, like the Erinyes, attacks those who have broken oaths made to kin, especially oaths that concern sexual fidelity. The Erinyes and Sati Polamma are chthonic beings, associated with the earth, and are said to predate the patriarchal order of male deities. The paper explores automatic action as a characteristic of one category of the monstrous.
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title	Automated Monsters of Vengeance: Comparing Goddesses in Ancient Greece and Hindu India
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Automated Monsters of Vengeance: Comparing Goddesses in Ancient Greece and Hindu India

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