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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 478 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALASTOR , in See also:

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

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