The story of Orestes and the curse of the House of Atreus is a dark tale, full of conflict and bloodshed, and one of the most powerful Greek myths.
At its core lies a conflict of two great opposing principles--mother-right and father-right--and it is this collision of principles which makes the tale appropriate for illustrating the quarrelsome, turbulent, yet ultimately immensely creative, Suit of swords.
Fot this Suit deals with the human mind in its most potent form:
the capacity to create good or evil fate according to the strength of one's beliefs, convictions and principles.
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The curse of the House of of Atreus is long and convoluted and here we will deal primarily with its final chapter.
But, in short,
it begins, with the crime of King Tantalos of Lydia, who grew so arrogant that in his madness he mocked the gods.
He cut his little son into pieces and served these, cooked, at a banquet to which he had invited the Olympians, in order to test their wisdom.
For this act of savagery and arrogance the gods curesd Tantalos' line.
Thus the curse of the House of Atreus commences with the misuse of the mind:
mans double-edge gift, which raises him above the beasts yet also gives him the power to destroy wantonly
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