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Definition of Parcae

Parcae
Parcae Par"c[ae], n. pl. [L.] The Fates. See Fate, 4.

Meaning of Parcae from wikipedia

- In ancient Roman religion and myth, the Parcae (singular, Parca) were the female personifications of destiny who directed the lives (and deaths) of humans...
- rather than naming them as individuals. Some groups, such as the Camenae and Parcae, were thought of as a limited number of individual deities, even though...
- Atropos (the inevitable, a metaphor for death). Their Roman equivalent is the Parcae. The role of the Moirai was to ensure that every being, mortal and divine...
- life of a person after the thread of his or her life has been cut by the Parcae, and of Mercury, messenger to the gods, escorting the dead person's soul...
- (Lamentation), Gratia (Favour), Fraus (Fraud), Pertinacia (Obstinacy), the Parcae, the Hesperides, and the Somnia (Dreams). In the Fabulae by the Roman mythographer...
- Nona was one of the Parcae, the three personifications of destiny in Roman mythology (the Moirai in Gr**** mythology and in Germanic mythology, the Norns)...
- Decima was one of the three Parcae (known in English as the Fates) in Roman mythology. The Parcae goddess Nona was responsible for pregnancy; Decima was...
- "creator of sentience." The Parcae are the three goddesses of fate (tria fata): Nona, Decima, and Parca (singular of Parcae), also known as Partula in...
- personified "fate spinners," known as the Moirai in Gr**** mythology, the Parcae in Roman mythology, and the Norns in Norse mythology. They determine the...
- was widespread in ancient Europe; compare the Fates (including Moirai, Parcae, and Norns), the Erinyes, the Charites, the MorrĂ­gan, the Horae, and other...