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- From: kfoss%ailanth.uucp@wang.com (Kevin Foss)
- Newsgroups: alt.mythology
- Subject: Re: Help with Fates
- Message-ID: <JPVFoB1w164w@ailanth.UUCP>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 00:13:42 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.210101.8375@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Organization: Ailanthus Project
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- rivk@quads.uchicago.edu (nora gayle rivkis) writes:
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- >
- > Can someone please tell me what the names of the three Fates
- > were, and which one did which job? Thanks very much.
-
- Atropos - carries the shears; cuts the thread of life
- Clotho - carries the spindle; spins the thread of life
- Lachesis - carries the globe (sometimes a scroll); determines the length
- of the thread of life.
-
- Sort of in reverse order of probably how they worked. Clotho, for some
- reason I find referred to as the youngest of the three (in Zimmerman, no
- classic reference given). All were sisters. In Greek they were known as
- the Moirae collectively, the Romans referred to them as the Parcae. They
- gained the names of the Fates, also in Roman times, when their statues in
- the Forum were named the Tria Fata.
- They were the daughters of Zeus and Themis, and sisters of the three
- Horae (Eunomia, Dike, Eirene: Discipline, Justice, Peace).
- The Fates probably originated out of a more ancient belief of individual
- fate within each person, (this idea evolved into that of the Keres, more
- a sense of destinies). Most importantly about the fates, though was
- their invulnerabiility even from the gods, all in the mythology universe
- of the Greeks had to follow the call of fate.
-
- -Kevin
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- (Posted at 7:15:59 A.M. on Friday, July 24th 1992)
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