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Moirai

In Greek mythology, the title of the three Fates; the name refers to the ‘portions’ of life they allotted to each human being, a destiny represented by a thread, although they sometimes appeared as goddesses of inevitability. Lachesis assigned the length of a life from her distaff, Clotho spun its existence, and Atropos broke the thread to signify its termination.
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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").
Intertextual Labyrinths: Ariadne's Lament in Montaigne's "Sur des ... by WIESMANN, MARC-ANDRE / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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