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Topic: Lachesis (mythology)

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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for mythology
		Eurynome, in Greek mythology, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys and mother, by Zeus, of the Graces.
		In the mythology of the Pelasgians, an aboriginal non-Greek people living in Greece before the Mycenaean period, she rose alone out of chaos and separated the earth from the sky.
		Selene, in Greek mythology and mythology, moon goddess; daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia and sister of the sun god Helios.
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	Moirae
		In Greek mythology, the Moirae or Moirai (also called the Three Fates) were the personifications of destiny (Roman equivalent: Parcae).
		The three Moirae were Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos (Nona ("ninth"), Decima, Morta in Roman mythology).
		Lachesis ("alotter" or drawer of lots) measured the thread of life, thereby determining how long people, animals and deities existed.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/la/Lachesis.html (205 words)

	LacheSys WebScapes - About Lachesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lachesis was one of the three Erinyes, or goddesses of fate, the daughters of Zeus and Themis, called the Moirai in Greek mythology.
		Lachesis' younger sister Clotho took the essence of life and spun it into threads, each thread being the life essence of a person.
		Lachesis' duty was to then weigh and measure each thread carefully and place it where it might do the most good in the great web of life.
	www.lachesys.com /lachesis.html (165 words)

	Lachesis Fund - FAQ
		Lachesis, Determiner of Destiny, was one of three goddesses of fate in Greek mythology.
		It should be noted however, that Lachesis has a policy to fund activities that would not otherwise happen, so joint investment by Lachesis and another investor may not always be appropriate.
		A key objective of the Lachesis Fund is to drive projects to a point where they are closer to commercial exploitation, or able to raise external funding in their own right.
	www.lboro.ac.uk /business/Lachesis/pages/faq.html (1325 words)

	Characters of Greek Mythology - Divine Sisters - The Fates - Goddesses of Fate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Their names, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, mean "the spinner", "the apportioner", and "the inevitable", and they controlled the destinies of all mortals.
		Each had their own job: Clotho, the youngest, spins the thread of life and has control of the hour of birth; Lachesis measures the thread and spins out the events of human lives; and Atropos decides the moment of death and cuts the thread of life.
		Characters of Greek Mythology was established in June 1998 by Tonya James
	mythology.tonyarn.com /sisters/fates.html (140 words)

	Past & Present: Intrinsic Comcepts
		For sure, mythology did not fundamentally construct the various ideas, but what they did very well was to give these concepts physical embodiments.
		Chinese mythology is an example of the patron goddess to various concepts.
		The inheritance of these concepts from mythology has led us, more often than not, to talk not of hoping to be lucky, but rather, to be praying for Luck; to be in Love, rather than to be loving each other; to be afraid of Death, rather than to be afraid of dying.
	library.thinkquest.org /C0118142/pandp/intrinsic.php (586 words)

	MOERAE (FATES), Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Lachesis sings of the things that were, Clotho of those that are, and Atropus about the things that will be.
		It has also been claimed that Tyche (Fortune) was one of the MOERAE, and the most powerful of the sisters because beauty, virtue, and good Fame are in her keeping, and also because she finds pleasure in dashing immoderate hopes.
		The MOERAE are reported to have fought with clubs in the war between the GIANTS and the OLYMPIANS, killing a couple of GIANTS.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/MOERAE.html (1384 words)

	Mythological references (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dain (Dainn) - Norse mythology - one of the stags wandering Yggdrasill's branches.
		Tailfing (Tyrfing) - Norse mythology - sword forged and cursed by the dwarves.
		Ereshkigal (Ereshkigal) - Mesopotamian mythology - wife of Nergal and goddess of the underworld.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /elaice/general/mythology.htm (2910 words)

	Classical Mythology
		In Greek mythology, Hypnos was the son of Nyx (the night goddess) and the brother of Thanatos (Death).
		The Sphinx in Greek mythology, was a daughter of Echidna and either Typhon or Orthus.
		She was a horrible monster with the face and breasts of a woman, the body of a lion, and wings of a bird.
	www.qnet.com /~raven/myths1.html (1369 words)

	The Fates Homework Page
		Lachesis sings of the things that were, Clotho those that are, and Atropos (or Atropus) the things that are to be.
		The thread of life is spun upon Clotho's spindle, measured by the rod of Lachesis and finally snipped by the shears of Atropos, the inevitable one.
		When the hero Meleager was seven days old the Fates came and declared that the new baby would die when the log burning on the hearth would finally burn out.
	www.thanasis.com /fates.htm (791 words)

	The Three Goddesses
		Daughters of Zeus and Themis, their names are: Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, known as The Fates.
		Clotho selected the thread, Lachesis measured it, and Atropos cut this thread to signify the end of a person's existence.The Fates were known as Parcae (or sometimes, Fatae) in Roman mythology, as Norn in Norse Mythology, and Wyrd in Anglo-Saxon Mythology.
		In primitive Hindu mythology, Kali was one aspect of the goddess DEVI, who was sent to earth to destroy a race of demons.
	www.threegoddesses.com /3goddesses.htm (2532 words)

	Three Fates - www.ezboard.com
		And the links to each of the three Fates (be careful, Lachesis is said to be also one of the Erinyes, which she isn't).
		Lachesis measures the thread of life and wove the thread into the fabric of a person’s actions.
		Decima was originally the Roman goddess of childbirth, but she later became Lachesis, the measurer of life.
	www.surlalunefairytales.com /boardarchives/2003/mar2003/threefates.html (557 words)

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		Here is a little background to the name 'Lachesis', chosen especially to credit our authors who strive daily to bring you countless hours of enjoyment.
		Lakhesis (Lachesis) was a daughter of Themis, the Goddess of Necessity and Zeus.
	www.lachesispublishing.com (218 words)

	Latin 1 - Mythology - Group Deities - Fates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The second sister, named Lachesis, measured the thread once it was spun.
		As Zeus became a stronger god, both in mythology and in the everyday lives of people, it was determined that he alone decided how long a person should live, making the Fates more minor in importance.
		However, they were willing to help Hades when he protested to Zeus that Asclepius had revived a dead Hippolytus, hence negating the powers of both the Underworld and the Fates.
	www.dl.ket.org /latin1/mythology/1deities/gods/lesser/group/fates.htm (300 words)

	120 Lachesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was named for one of the Moirae, or Fates in Greek mythology (whom the Romans knew as Parcae), Lachesis, who determined the length of the thread of life.
		Martha Lang-Wescott says Lachesis (pronounced La-KEE-sis) signifies "intervention, assessment midway into a sequence, what 'interrupts' an evolving sequence from going as one would have expected (from the way it began or is underway)".
		Columbine shooter Eric Harris had Lachesis in the eighth house of legacies, conjunct the Moon (the public), square Mercury (schools, writing, ideas), Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, and opposite Pandora (unintended consequences).
	www.geocities.com /mahtezcatpoc/lachesis.html (382 words)

	Mythography \| The Fates (Moirai) in Myth and Art
		As their name suggests, the Fates were goddesses who supervised fate in Greek mythology.
		Clotho was the spinner, Lachesis was the drawer of lots, and Atropos represented the inevitable end to life.
		Clotho selected the thread, Lachesis measured it, and Atropos cut this thread to signify the end of a person's existence.
	www.loggia.com /myth/fates.html (384 words)

	Greek Mythology
		Greek mythology follows the pattern of other mythologies in that the forces of nature were given personalities and then worshiped.
		Lachesis measured the length of the thread and the amount of time allotted to each person on earth, thus representing the present.
		In mythology Athena was the favorite daughter of Zeus (Jupiter), and was said to have sprung from his head, fully grown and clothed in armor.
	www.controverscial.com /Greek%20Mythology.htm (7313 words)

	Myths
		In both sets of mythologies the creatures that determine Fate are identical in purpose, gender and number.
		In Norse mythology Odin himself learns about his fate (being killed during Ragnarök, the doomsday, by the wolf Fenris) from the Norns, and there is nothing he can do about it but prepare himself and his allies.
		If we consider the mythologies as a reflection of the society, the conclusion is that both the Greeks and Vikings believed that their lives were already decided and one can only follow his/hers fate.
	home.swipnet.se /gabi/myths.htm (2100 words)

	Fates Extended Overview
		Borrowing from the Greek mythology of The Three Fates – Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos – who spin, measure, and cut the thread of life, the three components of our database system (bearing the Fates’ respective names) establish proper abstractions in the database query execution engine.
		The Lachesis database storage manager handles the mapping and access to minipages located within the LBNs of on-line storage devices.
		Lachesis merely decides how to map each minipage to LBNs to be able to construct a batch of efficient I/Os.
	www.pdl.cmu.edu /Fates/fatesoverview.html (1321 words)

	GREEK vs. NORSE MYTHOLOGY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I see mythology as an attempt by a people to explain the powerful forces which affect and shape it, that are beyond its control, such as weather, the elements, and nature.
		Both were sons of the supreme god in their respective mythologies and both had twins (Balder and Hod, Apollo and Artemis.) While Apollo was known as the sun god, Balder was usually thought to have light shining from him.
		If a mythology is taken as a reflection of the society that worships it, that leads to the conclusion that the Norse women had less stature than Greek women.
	webhome.idirect.com /~donlong (9260 words)

	Three Women: the Penis
		The scaring fantasy of the missing female member emerges from the unconscious in mythology, tales and art as the representation of three women.
		They were Atropos (the unbending, or the inevitable),Clotho (the spinner), and Lachesis (the caster of lots).
		They were the feared avenging goddesses in Greek and Roman mythology who were born from the falling drops of blood of Uranus (Sky) when he was mutilated by his son, the Titan Cronus.
	www.geocities.com /psychohistory2001/three.html (2147 words)

	lachesis.sf.net - Lachesis
		Lachesis Analysis is a Software Complexity Measurement program for Object-Oriented source code.
		The Lachesis Analysis is a diploma project of Bogdan Ivanov Vatkov at the
		The project is named on a goddess from the Greek mythology: the Disposer, one of the three Fates.
	lachesis.sourceforge.net /lachesis.html (72 words)

	Three Weird Sisters. Wyrd Myths, Three Witches
		Life is woven by Clotho, measured by Lachesis and the thread of life is cut by Atropos.
		The Fates were goddesses who supervised fate in Greek mythology.
		- (Anglo-Saxon mythology) a deity worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons
	wintersteel.homestead.com /Wyrd_Myths.html (1955 words)

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		LACHESIS has the potential to swamp landmarks with ICMP packets (used by FPING), but this can be dealt with by filtering out ICMP from abusive hosts.
		LACHESIS is run periodically, and the packet loss, delay, and other statistics are logged, accompanied with a time stamp.
		In order to catch events such as this, LACHESIS needs to run at least twice as frequently as the length of the event to be monitored.
	www.usenix.org /publications/library/proceedings/lisa95/full_papers/sedayao.txt (2252 words)

	Loom - Weavers of Fate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There they are the names of the three goddesses who determin the length of a life, the fate of a life and when a thread should be cut and thus a life ended.
		When that is the case Cletho spins the thread, Lachesis weaves the thread into a piece of cloth whose pattern determins the threads destiny and Atropos tears the cloth asunder when life is to be ended.
		Cletho, Lachesis and Atropos appear in many greek and latin texts, but the greek author Hesiodos is among the first to tell us about them in his grand work "The Theogony".
	www.salikon.dk /loom_behind_fate.html (341 words)

	The Lifeboat Forum.com - Kloto, Athropos and Lachesis
		The Lifeboat Forum.com - Kloto, Athropos and Lachesis
		Kloto, Athropos, and Lachesis, the three Moirae of the Greek mythology are roles that as women, we go through: giving birth, nurturing, and waking the dying.
		The eight together form one harmony; and round about, at equal intervals, there is another band, three in number, each sitting upon her throne: these are the Fates, daughters of Necessity, who are clothed in white robes and have chaplets upon their heads.
	thelifeboatforum.com /cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1154392323 (1874 words)

	Behind the Name: Greek Mythology Names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The names listed here occur in the mythologies and legends of ancient Greece.
		In Greek mythology she was a woman beloved by Herakles.
		From Greek Ουρανος (Ouranos), the name of the husband of Gaia and the father of the Titans in Greek mythology...
	www.behindthename.com /nmc/gre-myth.php (1860 words)

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