Nemesis: Goddess of Retribution, Greek Mythology's Avenging Angel

Nemesis was the goddess of retribution. She personified the power that visited punishment on those guilty of wrongdoing. Some myths feature her as human-like, but often she was conceptualized as an omnipresent force rather than a physical entity. Her power functioned something like moral gravity, only punishing instead of pulling. When a person jumps, gravity pulls them back down to earth, and similarly, under the auspices of Nemesis, when a person did something bad, they were punished.

Nemesis was the bane of those who disrupted the natural order. Those most at risk of bringing down her power upon themselves were the hubristic, disrespecting the gods, the wicked - in all their myriad forms - and the inordinately lucky.

Her fundamental purpose was to maintain equilibrium, the balance of things. She personified the desire for retribution society felt towards wrongdoers and towards those whose good fortune was excessive or undeserved. People who perpetrated evil and people who were ridiculously lucky found themselves in her crosshairs, as did people who didn’t respect the stark divide between divinity and mortality, challenging the gods or thinking themselves equal to or greater than them.

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