ISBN: 1235600122

[EAN: 9781235600128], Neubuch, WILLIAM KING,LITERARY,ENGLAND, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can downlo… More...

[EAN: 9781235600128], Neubuch, WILLIAM KING,LITERARY,ENGLAND, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1750. Excerpt: . . . CHAP. LVIII. Of the Pa R c . SINCE none of the things before-mentioned, or any other, could happen without the Approbation and Command of the Parctr, it is not improper to speak of them in this Place. They were three Sisters, always of the same mind, fo that though there was a Disagreement fometimes amongst the other Gods, yet no Difference was ever known to have been between them. Their Names were Clothe, Lachefis, and Atrofos, Sisters to the Hor re, and Daughters of Jupiter and Themis; others say, they were the Daughters of Erehus and Ncx; others, of NeceJJiiy; others, of Oceanus; and others, that they were bon at the fame time with Pan, out of that unshapen and consused Matter called Chaos, and that they betook themselves to a high, gloomy, strong Marble Cave, from whence they could take their Flight at pleafure. to distribute Good or Evil to Mortals. They were the Secretaries to the Gods, and at the moment of the Birth of any Perfon, decreed what mould happen to him. They are described as cloathed in White, bordered with Purple, and holding an Adamantine Distaff, which reaches from one End of the World to the other; they fit on Thrones, with Crowns on their Heads: They represent unto us all forts of Time, past, present, and to come; ar. d the Birth, Grow th, and End, of all things, is attributed to them, under the notion that one draws out the satal Thread of Life, the other wraps it about the Spindle, and the third cuts it off, when it is their Will to finish it. Vinus Clefiis has been reputed the eldest of the Fates, fo has Jupiter himself, and Mars, been reckoned amongst them. Licius Delius, an ancient Composer of Hymns 0 Of Minos, Rhadamanthus, and acus. 193 to the Gods, says, that Lucina, called Prcpomene, was one of them, and t. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 1235600122

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ISBN: 9781235600128

An Historical Account of the Heathen Gods and Heroes; Necessary for the Understanding of the Ancient Poets Being an Improvement of Whatever Has Been Hitherto Written, by the Greek, Latin,… More...

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