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NECESSITAS (Gr. 'Avery Ktj )

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 335 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NECESSITAS (Gr. 'Avery Ktj ) , in Orphic See also:theology, the personification of See also:absolute See also:necessity. She appears as the See also:mother of the Moerae (Fates), as the wife of Demiurgus (Fashioner of the See also:World) and mother of Heimarmene (Destiny). Her See also:power is irresistible, even greater than that of the gods; to her was due the strife (battles with See also:Titans, Giants) that raged amongst them of old, before the See also:rule of love began; the world revolves See also:round the spindle, which she holds in her See also:lap. According to the See also:Egyptian theory, she is one of the four deities See also:present at the See also:birth of every human being, her companions being the Daemon (See also:guardian spirit), Tyche (See also:Fortune) and See also:Eros. On the citadel of See also:Corinth there was a See also:temple sacred to her and Bia (Violence), which none were permitted to enter. The See also:Roman Necessitas is represented in the well-known See also:ode of See also:Horace (i. 35) as the fore-runner and See also:companion of See also:Fortuna, holding in her brazen See also:hand huge nails, a clamp and molten See also:lead, symbolical of fixedness and tenacity. See See also:Plato, See also:Rep. 616 c, Symp. 195 c, 197 B; See also:Macrobius, Saturnalia, I. 19; See also:Pausanias ii.

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