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Encyclopedia Britannica



ALASTOR

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 478 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AJA-ALL
ALASTOR , in Greek mythology, the spirit of revenge, which
prompts the members of a family to commit fresh crimes to obtain
satisfaction
 . These crimes necessitate further acts of vengeance, and the curse is thus transmitted from generation to generation. The word is also used for a man's evil genius, which drives him to sin without any provocation; a man so driven is sometimes called Alastor. The epithet is applied to Zeus and the Erinyes as the deities of revenge and
punishment
 .
ALA-TAU (" Variegated Mountains"), the name of six
mountain
  ranges in Asiatic
Russia
 . Three of these are in the government of Semiryechensk in Central
Asia
 , all belonging to the Tianshan
system
 :(1) the Terskei Ala-tau,
south
  of and parallel to the lake of Issyk-kul; (2) the Kunghei Ala-tau, and (3) the Trans-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 link together the Tian-shan and the Alexander Range. Their mean
elevation
  is 6000-7000 ft.; their culminating point, Talgar, on a transverse
ridge
  between (2) and (3), reaches 15,000 ft.; the limits of perpetual snow run at 11,000-11,700 ft. The Dzungarian Ala-tau reach a maximum altitude of 11,000 ft. and have a mean altitude of 6250 ft. From the middle of the Alexander Range another range (5) called Ala-tau, or Talastau, strikes west by
south
 . The name Ala-tau also enters into the designation of (6), a range between the upper
Yenisei
  and the upper Ob, in the government of Tomsk, namely, the Kuznetsk Ala-tau, forming an outlier of the Altai Mountains, and reaching
60007000 ft. in altitude.


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