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THE THREE GRACES

    The Graces are the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome. There are three Graces: Aglaia (Splendor), Euphrosyne (Mirth), and Thalia (Good Cheer). They are known for there singing and dancing for the Gods.
Are they related to the furies of fates, those three Graces?Armfuls of blossoming flowers, clothed in roses, marigolds, and anemones; hair full of daisies, it is Thalia, the Grace Bloom.
Lit up by rays of sunlight, clothed in reflective gold, silver and sparkling diamond, blindly shining, it is Aglaia, the Grace Brilliance.
The One so happy, upon her face a wide smile, eyes agleam, clothed in ribbons and a dance, it is Euphrosyne, the Grace Joy.

       Thalia, the Grace of Bloom, is a productive thinker. She guides the bud to blossom into bloom, drops its petals to grow into fruit. She is beauty.Thalia guides man the artisan to make useful things of beauty, such as the clothes we wear, the house we live in, furniture and such.
     
        Euphrosyne, the Grace of Joy, is a practical thinker. She is goodness. She guides man the doer in the course of his social actions. Man capable of doing right or wrong, achiever of happiness or not, right is doing goodness and results in joy.
     
        Aglaia, the Grace of Brilliance, is a speculative thinker. She is Truth. She guides man the Knower in the learning and acquiring of all sorts of Knowledge. Knowledge shall lead to truth and truth is brilliant.

The Three Graces in Myth

THE FATES

    The Goddess of Necessity, Themis, brought forth three lovely daughters, known as The Fates. All living things must eventually submit to these divine daughters of Zeus and Themis. Their names are: Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos.
       Life is woven by Clotho, measured by Lachesis and finally, in a very literal sense, the thread of life is cut by Atropos. They laugh at our feeble attempts to cheat them because they always prevail.

THE FURIES

    The Furies are perhaps the most terrifying spectres of the ancient world. They are three sisters whose purpose in the world is purely vengeance.

    They were called the Dirae, the Furies, by the Ancient Greeks. They were called the Erinyes. But they were also called the Eumenides which means "The Kindly Ones."

    "Not even the sun will transgress his orbit but the Erinyes, the ministers of justice, overtake him."

The Furies by Aeschylus	Theather History.com
Athens at Geocities	Thanasis.com
Eumenides By Aeschylus	Megaera.org
Temple University Classics

        In Roman mythology, the Furies also known as the Dirae (The Terrible) (Erinyes or Erinnyes (The Angry Ones) in Greek mythology) are three sisters: Alecto (The Unceasing or The Endless who was their leader), Megaera (The Grudging or The Envious Rager) and Tisiphone (The Avenging or The Retaliator). There are two accounts of their creation.

        One account has it that they came into being when the blood produced by Cronus castrating his father Uranus splashed upon the Earth, Gæa. The other account has it that they were mothered by Gæa with air and bad human emotions and deeds such as murder, perjury, disrespect, ingratitude, harshness, and violation of filial piety and the laws of hospitality.

Olympian Foundation.org	University of Houston
Sacred Texts.com

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