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1. "the development of events outside a person's control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power" (destiny, providence, astral influence, predestination, the stars...)
2. "the course of someone's life, or the outcome of a situation for someone or something, seen as outside their control" (future, destiny, outcome...)
3. "the inescapable death of a person" (death, demise, end...)
Latin: fatum "that which has been spoken"
• The idea that there is a fixed natural order to the universe and the cosmos.
• Classical and European mythology feature personified "fate spinners", (Moirai = Greek, Parcae = Roman, Norns = Norse) who determine the events of the world through the mystic spinning of threads that represent individual human fates
• Fatalism refers to the belief that events fixed by fate cannot be changed by any human agency, humans can't alter their own fates or the fates of others
Norns
Norns in Die Helden Und Götter Des Nordens, Oder:
Das Buch Der Sagen, Amalia Schoppe (1832)
• In Norse mythology, female beings who rule the destiny of gods and men.
• Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld are the three most important Norns, who come out from a hall standing at the Well of Fate.
• There are other Norns who appear at a person's birth to determine his or her future. Both malevolent and benevolent Norns: causing either tragic events in the world, or being kind and protective.
"Judgement of the Nornir"
"The Norns have waked me with visions of terror"
"For the Norns, whose wrath I could now escape"
"When the Norns have spoken"
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