"Sophocles called The Furies 'Daughters of Earth and Shadow.' Aeschylus called them 'Children of Eternal Night.' Either epithet made them offspring of the eternal spirit of primal darkness at the creation and linked them to the primordial concept of the Mother's Curse whereby the Goddess inevitably ended each life that she brought forth."
_Barbara Walker, The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects
Individually, they were:
Tisiphone (Retaliation-Destruction)
Megaera (Grudge)
Alecto (Unnameable)
Also known as the Erinnyes (Angry Ones)
"Sophocles called The Furies 'Daughters of Earth and Shadow.' Aeschylus called them 'Children of Eternal Night.' Either epithet made them offspring of the eternal spirit of primal darkness at the creation and linked them to the primordial concept of the Mother's Curse whereby the Goddess inevitably ended each life that she brought forth."
_Barbara Walker, The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects