Normally seen clothed in white, Lakhesis is the measurer of the thread spun on Klotho’s spindle. She is the apportioner, deciding how much time for life is to be allowed for each person or being, by measuring the thread of life with her rod. She is also said to choose Read more…
In mythology the role of the Fates was to ensure that every being, mortal and divine, lived out their destiny as it was assigned to them by the laws of the universe. For mortals, this destiny spanned their entire lives, and was represented as a thread spun from a spindle. Read more…
Klotho is the youngest of the Three Fates, and the one who spins the thread of human life. This power enables her not only to choose who is born, but also to decide when gods or mortals are to be saved or put to death. In mythology, it is said Read more…
She dwells ‘beneath the secret parts of the holy earth … deep down under a hollow rock far from the deathless gods and mortal men’ Hesiod Echidna was described to be half beautiful maiden and half fearsome snake. In addition to her monstrous appearance, she was purported to have monstrous Read more…
The Mythology A naiad daughter of Cocytus, the Underworld river of wailing and lamentation. She was thought to be incredibly beautiful, but the life of a nymph is usually a lonely one; they tended to have very little contact with the outside world. She was a consort to Hades and Read more…
And there, all in their order, are the sources and ends of gloomy earth and misty Tartaros and the unfruitful sea and starry heaven, loathsome and dank, which even the gods abhor. It is a great gulf, and if once a man were within the gates, he would not reach Read more…
The ancient myths tell that Persephone was abducted by Hades and forced to live with him in the Underworld as his Queen. This version of the story is so infamous that it is commonly told as the ‘Rape of Persephone’. According to legend, Persephone, daughter of Demeter, Goddess of the Read more…
A jealous and powerful god Being the ruler of the Mediterranean Sea, he is described as gathering clouds and calling forth storms, but at the same he has it in his power to grant a successful voyage and save those who are in danger, and all other marine divinities are Read more…
Dionysus was the son of Zeus and Semele, the only Olympian with a mortal parent During the course of her pregnancy, the god’s jealous wife Hera tricked Semele into asking Zeus to appear before her in his full glory. Bound by an oath on the River Styx, the god was Read more…
“When, under Hades’ semblance, Zeus divine deceived with guileful arts dark Persephone. Hence, partly black thy limbs and partly white, from Hades dark, from Zeus ethereal bright. Thy coloured members, men by night inspire when seen in spectred forms, with terrors dire; now darkly visible, involved in night, perspicuous now Read more…