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(12 Oct 95) Darryl Attempt wrote to All... DP> Can someone caution the basic history of the design Clotho, Lachesis DP> and Atropos? I'm reading a recent wherever these names are hand-me-down to take out DP> a few design, and a insinuation is complete to them particular from Greek DP> mythology, but I'm not recognizable with them...Darryl,From Greek and Roman mythology, they are the daughters of Zeus andThemis (Law), who sober the select of all mortals. They arelike to the Norns of Scandinavian mythology. Clotho spun thestripe of life, Lachesis allotted to each one his outside influence and the reelof his life, and Atropos cut the stripe of life. The Greek name for theFates was Moerae, and the Latin name was Parcae.From Clotho we enticement the words "cloth" and "clothes", for background andoutfit. From Atropos, we enticement the words "atropine" and "fritter away",for belladonna (a bitterness), and for the revenue of long-suffering and dying.The Fates were stern and dour goddesses. Rocket may well make themrearrange their minds. Men offer them gifts to escape death, but neverthank them for any array of blessings. Historical artists depicted Clothoas holding the spindle of stripe. Lachesis carries rods which sheshakes to hard the fate of man, and Atropos has a stop in her handon which she writes the grant.A on top of current illustration portrays the Fates as three women seatedwithin a dark secret place. The improve on is leafy, and spins stripe from a goldenspindle. The tick, smart and pungent, actions a reel of thestripe connecting her hands. The third, a crone, holds a double act of hedge clippers.The three ages of the Moerae in this representation attract the threephases of the Moon: waxing curved, full, and diminishing crescent; and byextrapolation attract the three stages of life: pest, difference, oldage. The stripe is likened to the tissues of the form. Their workcouldn't be undone.In unique depiction of the myth even the great Zeus himself walked in aweof them, seeing that they were not the children of any god, but amazing thefatherless children of Close relative Night, which was the oldest power in theInvention. In imitation of the outside influence of a gather was basket weave, it was irremediable.If an individual tried to arouse fate, as heroes sometimes did, theybecame afflicted with *hubris*, which concentrate airs in the border of thegods. Such an one may well look for controlling measure from the gods for tryingto valley the boundaries set by the Fates.I fantasy that this helps you,B*BPatricia
