Nemesis
Greek goddess of Vengeance and Fair Punishment, daughter of the Ocean though it's been believed to have been offspring of Justice, of the Night or even of Jupiter. She had part of the beauty of Aphrodite and Zeus is believed to have raped her, being Helena the fruit of such a union.
Nemesis (owed law) humiliates those that do not share their wealth, those that are blind with pride and that spend what they have without moderation, cursing and chasing them with her powers. She always holds an Apple tree branch and a wheel (that in olden legends was to be a solar calendar, being the apple tree needed by the solar god to enter the Elissious Camps, once he had been defeated in the middle of the calendar (autumn?), the god took revenge six months later-see Osyris and Horus Myth-) with a whip hanging from her waist and a silver crown in her head with figures representing deer. She was the ancient nymph-goddess of the death-in-life and, as Robert Graves prays, the person Zeus chased was the original Nemesis, that half divine under the name of Leda. Many prefer the version of Nemesis giving the egg with Helena to Leda, so that she would bring Helena up.
Nemesis, in his duties as avenger, was able to control the old blind god of Destiny and make gifts and curses obey flow as she whenever she wanted it.
But not only she judged vain glories but also the offenses made by men to their parents and their superiors. She also avenged the unfortunate lovers that were cheated or betrayed by their beloved as well as those humiliated by an infidelity (that's why she was believed to have comforted Ariadna once Thesseus had left her.
As provided of gifts and justice, she was venerated in Rome as goddess of fortune and that was the name given to her in the peninsula.
She was praised in many different states, from Egypt to Babylon and she was offered victims, narcissus (a name related with pride and the legend of a boy that fell in love with his own reflection), wheels, compasses, laurels and hundreds of temples.
She is seen as the counterpart of Tique or Tiche, also a Greek goddess of fortune but that was irresponsible in her duties of giving the mortals wealth and gifts: she could give goods and health to one fellow and leave in homelessness and hunger another one. Nemesis tried to equilibrate these cadences while she punished, dreadfully, everyone that was too proud of the gifts they possessed.
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