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Mother of the Fates, to Plato
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ananke
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Ananke ( ; ) is a retrograde irregular moon of Jupiter . It was discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson at Mount Wilson Observatory in 1951 and is named after the mythological Ananke , the personification of Necessity, and the mother of the Moirai by Zeus . ...
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n. 1 (context Greek mythology English) A Greek goddess, one of the Protogenoi and the primordial personification of destiny, necessity and fate, depicted as holding a spindle. 2 (context astronomy English) A moon of Jupiter.
Usage examples of ananke.
I shall file a claim with Ananke, whose obscure judgments govern us all.
It seemed, Ananke pointed out, that the entire world of sentient beings was based on a mistake made at the beginning, when the code governing the karmic machinery was set forth.
As supreme principle in the world, or at least very close to that, Ananke was accustomed to people cowering at her name.
He had never really accepted the notion that Necessity, Ananke, ruled both Good and Bad.
But He had gone away, and somehow this Ananke person had been left in charge.
It seems our demon has acquired a variance from Ananke herself, giving him express permission to perform miracles in the furtherance of his plan.
Furthermore, Ananke has ruled that we of the Light are not to be accorded any more special privileges simply because we are Good.
Palace of Justice, where Ananke held sway, was a Brobdingnagian place sculpted from blocks of stone larger than entire pyramids on Earth.
The most one can say is that Ananke looked nothing like a steam shovel.
He was under direct and unambiguous orders from Ananke Herself to stop his actors in midscene.
But this result is unacceptable to Ananke, so the Venice timeline will be split just before I started with the golden candlesticks.
But if you accept the precedent that Ananke can set rules for Bad, how are you going to argue when she sets a rule for Good?
Only with that done will Ananke have a chance to get everything back to normal again.
But then Ananke decided to spare it, so the time track of the city that had continued his actions with the demon was cut away and sent to Limbo.
Then there was breakfast, and the time of work, and the time of study, and Ananke and Pavo would quiz Jalila to ensure that she was following the prescribed Orders of Knowledge.