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Moirai

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Moirai: see Fates Fates, in Greek religion and mythology, three goddesses who controlled human lives; also called the Moerae or Moirai. They were: Clotho, who spun the web of life; Lachesis, who measured its length; and Atropos, who cut it.
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Moirai
see Fates.
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In these metaphonics, Ariadne, as life-giver, thus assumes the personality of the Greek Moirai or Roman Parcae, three divine old women who spin and weave the "filum" or thread of our existence into a pattern until, at our death, Atropos ("the one of no return") cuts it at the foreordained limit of its extension (again, "lisiere").
Intertextual Labyrinths: Ariadne's Lament in Montaigne's "Sur des ... by WIESMANN, MARC-ANDRE / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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