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The Answer to Fate, Destiny and Love
Ananke, the Goddess of Necessity
Ananke, derived from the common Ancient Greek noun ἀνάγκη (Ionic: ἀναγκαίη anankaiē), meaning "force, constraint or necessity,” is the goddess or personification of inevitability, compulsion and necessity. The births of Ananke and her brother and consort, Chronos (personification of Time) were thought to mark the division between the eon of Chaos and the beginning of the Cosmos.
Ananke is considered the most powerful dictator of fate and circumstance; mortals as well as gods respected her power and paid her homage. Sometimes considered the mother of the Fates, she is thought to be the only being to influence their decisions. In Ancient Greek literature the word ananke is also used to mean "fate" or "destiny" (ἀνάγκη δαιμόνων, "fate by the daemons or by the gods"). She appears often in poetry, as Simonides does: "Even the gods don’t fight against ananke". She is also frequently associated with Aphrodite, the representation of abstract celestial love and Eros, the god of passionate love, which are to be considered the powers that dictated the course of our lives.
The Creation of the Cosmos
Plato argues that in the creation of the universe, there is a uniting of opposing elements, intellect (nous) and necessity (ananke). The ordered world (cosmos) was born from chaos (nothing) and is of a mixed birth. It is the offspring of a union of Necessity and Intellect. Intellect prevails over Necessity by Peitho, goddess of persuasion, to direct life towards what is best, and the result of this is initial formation of the universe. According to the Orphic tradition at the start of the cosmos was Hydros (water), from which the muddy form of Gaia (earth) formed, and Thesis (Creation); and from these gods Ananke was born in a union of Hydros and Gaia. In the Orphic cosmogony she emerged self-formed at the dawn of creation - an incorporeal, serpentine being whose outstretched arms encompassed the breadth of the cosmos.
Ananke and Chronos
It is believed that Ananke was the mother of the Fates (the Moirai) born from the union with her consort Chronos (personification of Time). Chronos is the entirety of the span between Alpha, the beginning, and Omega, the end. Ananke is the goddess that directs the fate of all gods and mortals. Ananke and Chronos, together with their serpentine coils entwined, crushed the primal egg of creation splitting it into its constituent parts of earth, heaven and sea to form the ordered universe. After their act of creation Ananke and Khronos encircled the cosmos to drive the rotation of the heavens and the eternal passage of time.
Ananke is featured in Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame of Paris as the symbol of passionate love. He believed that we are driven by necessity and it was necessary for us to believe, necessary to create, and necessary to live. But we have to deal with obstacles under the form of superstition, prejudice, and the elements. The mysterious difficulty of life springs from the dogmas, laws, and things. But within these three concepts is the human heart.
Love is the most ancient of the gods, the most honored, and the most powerful. Sigmund Freud in ‘Civilization and Its Discontents’ theorized that the vital process of life is an experience under the influence of Eros and instigated by Ananke and this experience is one of uniting separate individuals and binding them together with ties of the cosmos or universe. The ancients viewed all that is human and all that is revered as divine as relative and transient. Only Fate, (Eimarmene), the universal Necessity (Ananke), and the inevitable Destiny (Adrasteia), is absolute. It is the indestructible force of Love that is the absolute law of Fate. Eros, the god of passionate love and the winged acolyte of Aphrodite, working in unison with Ananke and Chronos, form the most passionate and ultimate form of love made possible by the cosmic laws of Fate and Destiny, known to us as Soulmates.
Ananke, derived from the common Ancient Greek noun ἀνάγκη (Ionic: ἀναγκαίη anankaiē), meaning "force, constraint or necessity,” is the goddess or personification of inevitability, compulsion and necessity. The births of Ananke and her brother and consort, Chronos (personification of Time) were thought to mark the division between the eon of Chaos and the beginning of the Cosmos.
Ananke is considered the most powerful dictator of fate and circumstance; mortals as well as gods respected her power and paid her homage. Sometimes considered the mother of the Fates, she is thought to be the only being to influence their decisions. In Ancient Greek literature the word ananke is also used to mean "fate" or "destiny" (ἀνάγκη δαιμόνων, "fate by the daemons or by the gods"). She appears often in poetry, as Simonides does: "Even the gods don’t fight against ananke". She is also frequently associated with Aphrodite, the representation of abstract celestial love and Eros, the god of passionate love, which are to be considered the powers that dictated the course of our lives.
The Creation of the Cosmos
Plato argues that in the creation of the universe, there is a uniting of opposing elements, intellect (nous) and necessity (ananke). The ordered world (cosmos) was born from chaos (nothing) and is of a mixed birth. It is the offspring of a union of Necessity and Intellect. Intellect prevails over Necessity by Peitho, goddess of persuasion, to direct life towards what is best, and the result of this is initial formation of the universe. According to the Orphic tradition at the start of the cosmos was Hydros (water), from which the muddy form of Gaia (earth) formed, and Thesis (Creation); and from these gods Ananke was born in a union of Hydros and Gaia. In the Orphic cosmogony she emerged self-formed at the dawn of creation - an incorporeal, serpentine being whose outstretched arms encompassed the breadth of the cosmos.
Ananke and Chronos
It is believed that Ananke was the mother of the Fates (the Moirai) born from the union with her consort Chronos (personification of Time). Chronos is the entirety of the span between Alpha, the beginning, and Omega, the end. Ananke is the goddess that directs the fate of all gods and mortals. Ananke and Chronos, together with their serpentine coils entwined, crushed the primal egg of creation splitting it into its constituent parts of earth, heaven and sea to form the ordered universe. After their act of creation Ananke and Khronos encircled the cosmos to drive the rotation of the heavens and the eternal passage of time.
Ananke is featured in Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame of Paris as the symbol of passionate love. He believed that we are driven by necessity and it was necessary for us to believe, necessary to create, and necessary to live. But we have to deal with obstacles under the form of superstition, prejudice, and the elements. The mysterious difficulty of life springs from the dogmas, laws, and things. But within these three concepts is the human heart.
Love is the most ancient of the gods, the most honored, and the most powerful. Sigmund Freud in ‘Civilization and Its Discontents’ theorized that the vital process of life is an experience under the influence of Eros and instigated by Ananke and this experience is one of uniting separate individuals and binding them together with ties of the cosmos or universe. The ancients viewed all that is human and all that is revered as divine as relative and transient. Only Fate, (Eimarmene), the universal Necessity (Ananke), and the inevitable Destiny (Adrasteia), is absolute. It is the indestructible force of Love that is the absolute law of Fate. Eros, the god of passionate love and the winged acolyte of Aphrodite, working in unison with Ananke and Chronos, form the most passionate and ultimate form of love made possible by the cosmic laws of Fate and Destiny, known to us as Soulmates.
The Kairos Moment
Kairos, the youngest child of Zeus, was the god of opportunity and together with Chronos, represent time. Chronos is chronological time and Kairos is the personification of the “right time,” “opportunity,” or “season,” or simply put the perfect and optimal moment to take action. Kairos is, for Aristotle, the time and space context in which the proof will be delivered.
A Kairos moment can be defined as the moment of time all conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action; the opportune and decisive moment. A Kairos moment is the opportune time for soulmates to meet under the cosmos as directed by Eros and necessitated by Ananke. Chronos gives them the chronological time they need to find each other. Kairos gives them the opportunity to make it happen. And because they have free choice they will either take the action at that moment to fulfill the directive sent from the cosmos or not. If they don’t then they still have Chronos and there will be another chance to meet as destined. It all works together and it inspires Logos, the personification of Logic. Soulmates are not a mystical concept that spin from folktale. They are the logical answer to the question of what is meant to be. And the Greeks have given us the holistic means for answering it.
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Kairos, the youngest child of Zeus, was the god of opportunity and together with Chronos, represent time. Chronos is chronological time and Kairos is the personification of the “right time,” “opportunity,” or “season,” or simply put the perfect and optimal moment to take action. Kairos is, for Aristotle, the time and space context in which the proof will be delivered.
A Kairos moment can be defined as the moment of time all conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action; the opportune and decisive moment. A Kairos moment is the opportune time for soulmates to meet under the cosmos as directed by Eros and necessitated by Ananke. Chronos gives them the chronological time they need to find each other. Kairos gives them the opportunity to make it happen. And because they have free choice they will either take the action at that moment to fulfill the directive sent from the cosmos or not. If they don’t then they still have Chronos and there will be another chance to meet as destined. It all works together and it inspires Logos, the personification of Logic. Soulmates are not a mystical concept that spin from folktale. They are the logical answer to the question of what is meant to be. And the Greeks have given us the holistic means for answering it.
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