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Identifier: greekmythologysy00scul (find matches)
Title: Greek mythology systematized
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Scull, Sarah Amelia
Subjects: Mythology, Greek Emblems
Publisher: Philadelphia : Porter & Coates
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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e term made Erebus apply to a dark region throughwhich shades passed when after death they went downto the lower world. To the region into which theypassed through Erebus the term * Hades was applied. DESCENDANTS OF EREBUS AND NYX. yETHER (Ai^/ier).(Table K, 3.)In speaking of ^ther as a type of the highest deitieswe have indicated the meaning of the term. It seemedto be considered as the source of fire, light, spirit, andlife, yet was spoken of as ** fields of ether, as the abode of Zeus, but in the same way in which theocean and its waves were spoken of as the home ofPoseidon. HEMERA (Humeral, THE DAY.(Table K, 4.) Hemera seems to have been merely an abstraction.We have an interesting survival of this abstra<:tion inthe word ephemera/, lasting but a day. DESCENDANTS OF NYX. • MOROS (Afdros), DESTINY OR FATE. (Table K, 5.) The word destiny or fate may be of stupendous signification. It may be the synonym for the relation that must exist between the supreme will of the universe 27
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314 MCER,E. 315 and the order of events through all ages. Whether ornot Hesiod used the word Moros or any other wordin that wide sense cannot be known, but there are clearindications that there was in every age an apprehensionof an all-controlling necessity or power to whose decreesthe gods were subject. We know that Hesiod calls Zeus supreme ruler ofgods and men, even calls the Moerse (the Three Fates)the daughters of Zeus and Themis, but he may have hadan apprehension of a power whose decision even Zeusmust obey, and he may have used the term Moros asa name for such power. The same indefiniteness at-taches to the word Ker, that seems to be anotherword for Fate. MCER^ (Molrai), THE FATES. (Table K, 6.) The Moerae were also called Parcse; either of theterms signifies a share, in the sense of allotting toevery man his share. Early Legends. At Delphi only two Fates were recognized, but threebecame the general number. As to their parentage,Hesiod in one place calls them daughters of Zeus

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