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Atropos, also Atropa (Greek Ἄτροπος, “Inescapable”) or Aisa — the relentless, inevitable fate (death). She cuts the thread. According to Sophocles’ Hymn to the Moirai, she is the daughter of Night (in the variant “Aisa,” in which she is also mentioned by Alcman). She is mentioned as Aisa in the oracles of the Sibyl.
According to Hesiod, there were three daughters of Nyx (Night). The first, in the form of a spinning woman, personifies the steady and calm action of fate; the second — its accidents; the third — the inevitability of its decisions.
According to another widespread version (a later transcription of Hesiod), they are daughters of Zeus and Themis, sisters of the Horai. According to the Orphics and Plato — daughters of Ananke; there is also a version that they are daughters of Kronos.
In Plato’s dialogue The Republic, the Moirai are depicted sitting on high chairs, in white garments, with wreaths on their heads; all of them spin on the spindle of Ananke (necessity), accompanying the celestial music of the spheres with their singing: Clotho sings of the present, Lachesis — of the past, Atropos — of the future.” Again, you see, it is the same thing. The same forces, the same worlds, the same division once again into what is future, past, present. So, further. The conception of the Moirai, in Wikipedia this section. “In the Archaic period this name denoted the highest law of nature, and the gods were its executors; alongside the ancient Greek expression Διός αἶσα, ‘divine predestination,’ there also often occurs the expression μοῖρα θέων. On this basis there arose, separate from other deities, the cult of the Moirai.
According to Homer, even Zeus himself often submitted to the will of the Moirai, while later they themselves came to be regarded as the instruments of the gods. A. F. Losev points out that in the Hellenistic era the goddess of chance, Tyche, characterized by the instability and changeability of life, competed with the Moirai.
Birth and death stand under the special protection of the Moirai. They determine the span of a person’s life and the moment of their death, and they see to it that
According to Hesiod, there were three daughters of Nyx (Night). The first, in the form of a spinning woman, personifies the steady and calm action of fate; the second — its accidents; the third — the inevitability of its decisions.
According to another widespread version (a later transcription of Hesiod), they are daughters of Zeus and Themis, sisters of the Horai. According to the Orphics and Plato — daughters of Ananke; there is also a version that they are daughters of Kronos.
In Plato’s dialogue The Republic, the Moirai are depicted sitting on high chairs, in white garments, with wreaths on their heads; all of them spin on the spindle of Ananke (necessity), accompanying the celestial music of the spheres with their singing: Clotho sings of the present, Lachesis — of the past, Atropos — of the future.” Again, you see, it is the same thing. The same forces, the same worlds, the same division once again into what is future, past, present. So, further. The conception of the Moirai, in Wikipedia this section. “In the Archaic period this name denoted the highest law of nature, and the gods were its executors; alongside the ancient Greek expression Διός αἶσα, ‘divine predestination,’ there also often occurs the expression μοῖρα θέων. On this basis there arose, separate from other deities, the cult of the Moirai.
According to Homer, even Zeus himself often submitted to the will of the Moirai, while later they themselves came to be regarded as the instruments of the gods. A. F. Losev points out that in the Hellenistic era the goddess of chance, Tyche, characterized by the instability and changeability of life, competed with the Moirai.
Birth and death stand under the special protection of the Moirai. They determine the span of a person’s life and the moment of their death, and they see to it that