TheFatescontrolled the birth, death and lifespan of all gods and mortals. Every time a child was born, it was believed that theFateswould visit them three days after and decide whether the child should live. As soon as a child was born, the threads that the sisters used to determine lif...
But the challenge of life I have found is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be but it's a story about who you want to be. It's a resume that doesn't just tell a story about what you want to accomplish but why. A story that's not ju...
The poet Hesiod’s Theogony was the first written story of Greek mythology. The Theogony tells the story of the universe’s journey from nothingness (Chaos, a primeval void) to being, and details an elaborate family tree of elements, gods and goddesses who evolved from Chaos and descended fro...
This story is about the fates we yearn for, the fates we choose and the fates that are chosen for us. You Are the Everything The NHRC chairman called for sending a UN fact-finding mission to know the Qatari nationals' fate. Three Qataris are victims of enforced disappearance and another...
places, I related so much to what she writes, especially about a daughter ‘flying the nest’ to a faraway country. I particularly loved the device MJ Mallon uses to draw all this together: she presents it as a conversation with Atropos, one of the three Fates in Greek mythology: the ...
He has little to do with mortals' lives. Their deaths are a different story. Hades is not Death himself; in other words he is not responsible for deciding when mortals die. A mortal's death is an assembly line: The Fates snip the threads of life, Thanatos (or death) causes the ...
Fates (in Greek, Moirae), in ancient Greek mythology, the three daughters of Zeus and Themis. They were goddesses of fate, whose task was to watch over the course of human life. Clotho spun the thread of life, Lachesis assigned to each man his destiny, and, at the appointed hour, Atro...
Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, the three prophecy-makers of Kaos, are known collectively as The Fates. They're a key trio in Greek mythology, writing prophecies and declaring that "knowing is our whole thing." As Graves writes in The Greek Myths, Clotho is the "spinner," Lachesis (or ...
"The fates of death (kêres) bore him away to the house of Aides (eis Aïdao domous), and his proud sons divided among them his substance, and cast lots therefore. Homer, Odyssey 15. 349 ff : "Are they haply still living beneath the rays of the sun? or are they now dead and ...
Alice Dewey observes, "There's something about Greek mythology and the story of Hercules, in particular, that has appealed to people for many centuries. It's timeless, universal and the stories are filled with lots of passion. Hercules himself is a very popular and accessible hero who was ...