Nemesis

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~ NEMESIS  also ADRASTEIA or RHAMNUSIA
^          id+ | THAT WORTH AVOIDING or
                 RUNNING AWAY FROM |
  id+ | FOUNTAIN OF HONOR NURTURED BY SHAME |
  id+ | REASON FOR UNFAILING REVENGE or UNDOING |
  id+ | THAT WHICH MAY INJURE PERSONAL INTEGRITY or
        THE INTEGRITY OF  " ONE " or  " ME " |
  see> NUMBER or NOMINATION
  note NEMESIS MAY ARISE FROM EXTERNAL AND
       INTERNAL CAUSES as THOUGHTS and FEELINGS may
  as in " DIRTY MIND "
  HOMER SPEAKS OF see> AIDOS
  sug> INTEGRITY OF CONSCIENCE
  HESIOD [#] under NEMESIS includes all that
  should be AVOIDED or occurrences that call
  for ATONEMENT plus flaws like COWARDICE  LYING  and PERJURY
  myth> NEMESIS WAS A GODDESS OF VENGEANCE or PUNISHMENT
        DAUGHTER OF EREBUS & NYX or EREBOS & OKEANOS
  also  ADRASTEIA or RHAMNUSIA STOOD FOR VENGEANCE DESERVED FOR
  ACTS THAT WERE TABU or " SHAME ON YOU "
  lit+ from " WORKS AND DAYS " by HESIOD [#]
       " ... IT IS ALL AS ONE THING
  THE MAN WHO WRONGS A SUPPLIANT or A STRANGER
  THE MAN WHO VIOLATES HIS BROTHER'S BED
  THE MAN WHO IN HEARTLESSNESS SINS AGAINST ORPHAN CHILDREN
  THE MAN WHO REVILES HIS OLD FATHER ON THE BITTER
  THRESHOLD OF AGE
  WITH THAT MAN ZEUS HIMSELF IS WRATH "
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& NEMESIS
  id+ HOMER IS AMONG THE FIRST TO PRESENT
      THE PRINCIPLE OF AIDOS AS                <see
  A FOUNTAIN OF INNER SHAME AND THE SOURCE OF
  SPIRITUAL HONOR
  lit+ " IT WOULD BE A THING TO FEEL NEMESIS AT "
         SAID HELEN OF TROY WHEN ASKED BY PARIS TO LOVE HIM
  biol> SNAP DRAGON or NEMESIA