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Moirai

see Fates.
See: Fate
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Delphic oracle, the future as conveyed by the Parcae or Moirai often
Sin quererlo Alfredo penso en las teorias de Freud, en Edipo que acaba arrancandose los ensangrentados ojos en un supremo gesto de pudor, verguenza y aceptacion de lo mandado por las Moirai. Sacudio la cabeza para espantar aquella imagen de mal aguero que se posaba entre sus cejas como un cuervo que observa con mercenario apetito sus bolivianas pupilas.
Mansfield reinforces this imagery by having the grandmother engaged in stitching--an allusion to the Greco-Roman Moirai or Fates--while talking to Kezia about death and dying.
His argument is based on the Homeric wisdom that the Moirai (the Fates) govern everything and that even the gods are subject to their rule.
(24) "Moirai trimorphoi mnemones t'Erinues"; Prometheus Bound, 1.
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").
In Eddic tradition that power belonged to the Norns, the three goddesses of destiny, whose names - Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld - mean "Past," "Present," and "Future." They appear to be a northern version of the Fates, the three primordial goddesses the Greeks called the Moirai, which means "Alloters."
In literature Ananke is associated with the nymph Adrasteia, the Moirai (or Fates, of whom she was the mother, according to Plato in the Republic), and similar deities.
Entry is PS4 to the public, free for students, and for tickets visit https://bit.ly/2I9WNSX Moirai and Dave Walters will be guests at the Grand Union Folk Club.
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