Divine vengeance is a frequent theme in every story that appears in ancient mythology.
In Greek mythology there is a Goddess of vengeance who deals with evildoers and ensures that there is balance in human life she becomes an agent of someone’s downfall who inevitably punishes those who presumptuously oppose the gods, excessive pride and undeserved happiness.
She is the Goddess Nemesis.
Nemesis is the Goddess of law and justice in addition to the Goddess of vengeance she punishes people who do evil or who get unworthy good fortune.
If the Goddess tyche gives someone good fortune Nemesis can easily take it back If she feels that the person does not deserve that good fortune.
Nemesis, also known as Rhamnusia, is described as a goddess who is relentless and always gives strict punishments.
In accordance with his given name which should in Roman mythology Nemesis be equated with the Goddess invidia.
In Greek art Nemesis is sometimes depicted as a winged goddess who allows her to travel quickly to where she is needed.
The Goddess carries and apples in one hand and the wheel of fortune in the other.
He is also sometimes featured in a chariot being pulled by a griffin on an adamantine harness.
Some early ancient artists depicted Nemesis as a young and beautiful woman with wings dressed in white while later generations presented her as a terrifying creature.
Nemesis is generally considered to be the daughter of the Night Goddess Nyx who gave birth to her without a father. It is sometimes mentioned that her father was Erebus, Nyx’s husband, this origin makes Nemesis the early Goddess of the generation that preceded Zeus and the Olympian gods.
at least in the genealogy of the gods despite having preceded Zeus, Nemesis is often in contact with the supreme God and it is he who is sent to deal with humans who believe that the Goddess is the overseer of the gods famous stories featuring the goddess Nemesis often do not deal with people evil but instead it appears in retaliation for this Rejected Love is the revenge of Nemesis summoned by Narcissus lovers especially Echo.
Narcissus rejects every love that comes to him in a way that hurts the heart cries of the nymphs including Echo over their rejection of love then heard by the Goddess of revenge Nemesis and finally the Goddess decides to punish Narcissus he is cursed to love and never gets a return from his love as experienced by broken-hearted girls.
due to his arrogance, the Nemesis will make sure that Narcissus will fall in love with his own shadow in the pool and then Narcissus seems to be wasted as he constantly looks at his own shadow with longing.
It is generally said that Nemesis herself had no offspring although sometimes the Goddess is referred to as the mother of Telchines, a metal craftsman skilled in legend. But Telchines are more often regarded as the son of the earth goddess Gaia.
Some ancient sources also claim that Helen of Sparta was famous as a woman. The most beautiful trigger for the Trojan War in Greek mythology was Princess Nemesis who was born from her relationship with Zeus the King of Gods.
At that time the aphrodite Goddess of Love had made Zeus fall in love with Nemesis Zeus tried to chase him but Nemesis continued to run away from the pursuit.
For fear of Nemesis then changing his form into a fish and then into a female swan Zeus did not give up just like that. He also took the form of a male swan and in that form Zeus finally managed to outwit Nemesis.
In a different version, Zeus finally managed to approach Nemesis through a trick. The Goddess of Love, aphrodite, disguised herself as an eagle who was pretending to hunt Zeus, who was disguised as a swan. it was at that time that Zeus in the form of a swan carried out his plan after which Zeus left the Goddess to commemorate the event. Zeus imaged a constellation in the sky in the form of a swan now known as the constellation Cygnus.
From that relationship, Nemesis gave birth to eggs that were blue and silver. The eggs were later found by a shepherd or perhaps by Hermes, the eggs were given to Leda. From these eggs hatched a woman named Helen.
Leda finally raised Helen as her own daughter. Even so, in the story of the Trojan war, Helen is more often considered the daughter of Zeus and Leda.
Nemesis is a kind of fatal divinity because it directs human affairs in such a way as to restore proper balance wherever it feels it should.
The Goddess measures happiness and unhappiness and whoever is blessed with too much heart and luck will be visited by her with loss and suffering so that person becomes humble and feels that there are limits beyond that which human happiness cannot reach.
This idea arose from the belief that the gods were jealous of human happiness in excess and for this purpose figures were needed for which Nemesis the Goddess of vengeance was needed.
