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TIME AND MYTH
For the Greeks the Sky, the Night. The Day are
divinities. Cronos is the son of the Sky (Uranus) and the Earth (Gea).
The Night, daughter of Caos, sister and bride of
Erebus, according to the
Greeks always arrives on a chariot, dressed in a long black dress studded
with stars.
She generated the Day, Tenderness, Anguish, Betrayal,
Ether, Moiras, Nemesis, Hypno.
Moiras represented troubling divinities for the life
of men. The possessed the fundamental moments of human life: Clotus unwound from the spindle the
thread of life, Lachesis measured it and Athropos cut it.
