The research teacher in me is pleased to hear she has inspired research. Whatever did you find? Was mainly striving to separate "fact" from fantasy - had read Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality ages ago and needed to know the difference between his Fate and who/what the weaver was believed to be. Then got caught up in her origin and other details. The three-fold nature (Clotho does the spinning, Lachesis measures and Atropos cuts the threads of lives) is quite interesting and I want to find out more about that as well. *wonders if idea is better with them being three separate beings (sisters?), or three aspects of the same creature* Oops! there I go wandering off again. Please pardon rambling.
'Tis (as you can see from above) all swimming 'round in the back of my head at the moment, percolating, as it were ... or perhaps just quietly steeping. Want to do more than merely drabble it, for the idea has caught my fancy, but haven't yet decided what direction to start from. And (yea!) am now only 100 posts behind at BPS - should be able to catch up this week and then will allow myself to play again.
Oh, yes. There is a lovely description of the three Fates working in Catullus 64--a poem by Catullus that covers the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, the story of Theseus and Ariadne and the Trojan War. I'll look forward to seeing where you go with the idea. I've often written Jack as having a relationship with Fate similar to his relationship with Scarlett. LOL! She slaps his face but eventually warms up in his arms.
Was mainly striving to separate "fact" from fantasy - had read Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality ages ago and needed to know the difference between his Fate and who/what the weaver was believed to be. Then got caught up in her origin and other details. The three-fold nature (Clotho does the spinning, Lachesis measures and Atropos cuts the threads of lives) is quite interesting and I want to find out more about that as well. *wonders if idea is better with them being three separate beings (sisters?), or three aspects of the same creature* Oops! there I go wandering off again. Please pardon rambling.
'Tis (as you can see from above) all swimming 'round in the back of my head at the moment, percolating, as it were ... or perhaps just quietly steeping. Want to do more than merely drabble it, for the idea has caught my fancy, but haven't yet decided what direction to start from. And (yea!) am now only 100 posts behind at BPS - should be able to catch up this week and then will allow myself to play again.
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