Theme - Fate
Deadline - First week of March (5th and 9th March)
Format - 9in x 12in, 300dpi
Image must relate to the theme and connection must be explained
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FATE
- the development of events outside a persons control, regarded as predetermined by a super natural power
- destiny, providence, astral influence, the stars
- the course of someones life, or the outcome of a situation for someone or something, seen as outside their control
- future, destiny, outcome, issue
- the inescapable death of a person
- death, demise, end, doom
- (in greek and roman mythology) the three goddesses who preside over the birth and life of humans. Each person was though of as a spindle, around which the three Fates would spin the thread of human destiny (the weird sisters).
- Latin: Fatum - that which has been spoken
- based on the belief there is a fixed natural order to the universe and/or the cosmos
- Fate Spinners: Moirai (Greek), Parcae (Roman), Norns (Norse) - determine the events of the world through the mystic spinning of threads that represent individual human fates
- Divinely Inspired
- The Three Moirai
- Clotho (Spinner) spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle - portrayed as a maiden
- Lachesis (Allotter or Drawer of Lots) measure the thread of life allotted to each person with her measuring rod - portrayed as a matron
- Atropos (Inorexable, Inevitable, Unturning) cuts the thread of life. Chose the manner of each persons death and when their time had come, cut the life thread with 'her abhorred shears' - portrayed as a crone
- life thread, distaff, spindle, measuring rod, shears, maiden, mother, crone
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