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[Alexandr Korol]

Well, since she is compared with Tyche, referring to some goddess Tyche, let us place emphasis on this. Wikipedia says: “Tyche (‘chance,’ that which fell by lot) is, in ancient Greek mythology, the deity of chance, the goddess of luck and fate. In ancient Roman mythology she corresponds to Fortuna. Tyche does not appear in classical mythology but, as A. A. Takho-Godi notes, arose only in the Hellenistic era as a deliberate opposition to the ancient idea of unchanging fate. She symbolizes the variability of the world, its instability and randomness. Later Tyche became not so much the goddess of luck as the deity personifying a fortunate chance. The name Tyche, one of the Oceanids and companions of Persephone, is first found in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, but there she has nothing in common with the goddess Tyche. Hesiod also counts her among the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys. In Archilochus Tyche stands beside Moira; in Pindar she is the daughter of Zeus and also close to the Moirai. Pausanias agrees with the words of Pindar that Tyche is one of the Moirai and that she is stronger than her sisters. Among the Orphics Tyche is associated with Artemis.” Well, I remember that the Moirai are seven, when I studied the number seven, they are seven sisters and their mother is Night, and there are seven sisters. And it is very interesting, that is, how now a person after reading my novel “Alternative History,” after all the volumes, can perceive all this in a completely different way, this, let’s say, sacred language. And when you, if in the future, read some article in Wikipedia about certain gods who had children, brothers, sisters, then these are systems of some world, do not forget, one of the three worlds. And so, we also have the otherworld, and in the otherworld there are many systems, that is, intellects, minds, and these are those sisters. Well, good, good. Let’s go further.

“An attribute of Tyche was the wheel, whose rotation — ‘what was above will be below’ — symbolized the changeability of fortune. From this, with Tyche’s correspondence in Roman mythology to Fortuna, came the expression that became proverbial: ‘the wheel of Fortune.’ Another of her attributes is the Cornucopia. She began to be worshiped in Athens in the 5th century BC, and her cult spread especially in the Hellenistic era. A number of cities, in particular Antioch and Alexandria, considered her their patron goddess.” Well, you see how interesting that is. So it turns out that fortune is exactly like some kind of spiral, like a coin,