ALASTOR  , in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology, the spirit of revenge, which prompts the members of a See also:

• FAMILY

family to commit fresh crimes to obtain See also:

• SATISFACTION (Lat. salisfacerc, to satisfy)

satisfaction . These crimes necessitate further acts of vengeance, and the curse is thus transmitted from See also:

• GENERATION (from Lat. generare, to beget, procreate; genus, stock, race)

generation to generation . The word is also used for a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man's evil See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius, which drives him to See also:

• SIN
• SIN (O. Eng. syn: a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch zonde, Ger. Siinde)

sin without any provocation; a man so driven is sometimes called Alastor . The epithet is applied to See also:

• ZEUS

Zeus and the See also:

• ERINYES (Lat. Furiae)

Erinyes as the deities of revenge and See also:

• PUNISHMENT (from Lat. punire, to punish, from poena, punishment, Gr. 7rocvil)

punishment . See also:

• ALA

ALA-TAU (" Variegated Mountains"), the name of six See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain ranges in See also:

• ASIATIC

Asiatic See also:

• RUSSIA
• RUSSIA (Rossiya)

Russia . Three of these are in the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government of See also:

• SEMIRYECHENSK

Semiryechensk in Central See also:

• ASIA

Asia, all belonging to the Tianshan See also:

• SYSTEM

system:—(1) the Terskei Ala-tau, See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south of and parallel to the See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

lake of Issyk-kul; (2) the Kunghei Ala-tau, and (3) the Trans-See also:

• ILI

Ili Ala-tau, both N. of and parallel to the same lake; and (4) the Dzungarian Ala-tau, lying N. of the Ili depression . The first three See also:

• LINK

link together the Tian-shan and the See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander Range . Their mean See also:

• ELEVATION

elevation is 6000-7000 ft.; their culminating point, Talgar, on a transverse See also:

• RIDGE (a word. common to many Teutonic languages, meaning " back," whether of a man or an animal, cf. German Rucke)
• RIDGE, WILLIAM PETT (1864- )

ridge between (2) and (3), reaches 15,000 ft.; the limits of perpetual See also:

• SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow run at 11,000-11,700 ft . The Dzungarian Ala-tau reach a maximum See also:

• ALTITUDE (Lat. altitudo, from altus, high)

altitude of 11,000 ft. and have a mean altitude of 6250 ft . From the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the Alexander Range another range (5) called Ala-tau, or Talastau, strikes See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west by south . The name Ala-tau also enters into the designation of (6), a range between the upper See also:

• YENISEI

Yenisei and the upper Ob, in the government of See also:

• TOMSK

Tomsk, namely, the See also:

• KUZNETSK

Kuznetsk Ala-tau, forming an outlier of the See also:

• ALTAI (in Mongolian Altain-ula, the " Mountains of Gold ")

Altai Mountains, and reaching 6000—7000 ft. in altitude .