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In Greek mythology, Clotho or Klotho, the Greek word Κλωθώ for "spinner", was the youngest of the Moirae (the Fates). It was Clotho who spun the threads of life with her distaff. According to Hesiod's Theogony, she and her sisters (Lachesis and Atropos) are the daughters of Night (by no one). The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and their own cult and ritual practices. ...
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A hand-turned spinning wheel in action Cones of yarn for industrial use Spinning is the process of creating yarn (or thread, rope, cable) from various raw fiber materials. ...
Spinning Flax from a distaff As a noun, a distaff is a tool used in spinning. ...
Roman bronze bust, the so-called Pseudo-Seneca, now identified by some as possibly Hesiod Hesiod (Hesiodos, ) was an early Greek poet and rhapsode, who presumably lived around 700 BC. Hesiod and Homer, with whom Hesiod is often paired, have been considered the earliest Greek poets whose work has survived...
Theogony is a poem by Hesiod describing the origins of the gods of the ancient Greeks, ca 700 BC. // Hesiods Theogony a large-scale synthesis of a vast variety of local Greek traditions concerning the gods, organized as a narrative that tells how they came to be and how...
In Greek mythology, Lachesis was the second of the Three Fates, or Moirae. ...
In Greek mythology, Atropos was the third of the Moirae. ...
Her Roman equivalent was Nona (the 'Ninth'), who was originally a goddess called upon in the ninth month of pregnancy.[citation needed] In Roman mythology, Nona was the equivalent of Clotho in Greek mythology. ...
Clotho in popular culture -
Main article: Clotho in popular culture The song "Hush Puppet" by Canadian Darkwave band Cry Pandora describes Clotho as a dark spider that dangles people on her thread like a puppet.
In Kyouryuu Sentai Zyuranger (the series that the Power Rangers was based on), Clotho was an entity with the power of life. She was also the one that gave the Lapseless Room, Zyusouken (Beast Play Sword), and Dragon Caesar to Burai (The Dragon Ranger). It is rumored that after Burai's death, many kids wrote to TV Asashi (the TV station that Zyurangers was on) asking for the writers to have Clotho resurrect Burai. Kyouryuu Sentai Zyuranger ), translated into English as Dinosaur Squadron Zyuranger1 is a Japanese tokusatsu television series, the 16th entry in the long-running Super Sentai franchise of superhero programmes. ...
In Stephen King's Insomnia, Clotho is depicted as a small male doctor alongside Lachesis and Atropos. He served the side of Order, along with Lachesis, while Atropos served Chaos.
In the video game God of War II, Clotho acts as the penultimate boss. Here, she is depicted as immensely obese, being unable to move around with her girth. God of War II is the sequel to the extremely popular God of War video game. ...
Obesity is a condition in which the natural energy reserve, stored in the fatty tissue of humans and other mammals, is increased to a point where it is associated with certain health conditions or increased mortality. ...
In Raphael Sabatini's Captain Blood, Peter Blood captured three ships from the Spaniards and renamed them Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos. This was a "grimly jocular manner of conveying to the world that he made them the arbiters of the fate of any Spaniards he should henceforth encounter upon the seas." (Chapter XVIII) Captain Blood is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922. ...
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