Fate / Destiny
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Destiny · Fate · Fortune · bonds of fate · destiny · the fated day · those goddesses of fate
in the texts
Alcestis
The power of Destiny/Fate (the Moirai) and Fortune, which governs the timing of death and which Apollo attempts, but ultimately fails, fully to overcome.
For in Pheres’ son I found a man as holy as myself, and him I saved from death by cheating Destiny, for they promised me, those goddesses of fate, that Admetus should escape the impending doom, if he found a substitute for the powers below.
for Fortune’s issues are not in our ken, beyond the teacher’s rule they lie, no art can master them.
how can we loose the bonds of fate that bind our lord?
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The idea of an overriding destiny shaping events.
"She has fallen into the power of Fate;
Such, I believe, was the fate destined to befall.