#eunomia — Public Fediverse posts

Moirai

In ancient Greek religion & mythology, the Moirai (a.k.a. in English as the Fates) were the personification of destiny.

There were 3 sisters named: Clotho, who was the spinner; Lachesis, who was the allotter; & Atropos, who was the inevitable, a symbol for death. Their Roman equals are the Parcae.

The Moirai’s role was to make sure that every being, mortal & divine, lived out their destinies. For mortals, this destiny went their entire lives & is pictured as a thread spun from a spindle. A spindle is the thing that Sleeping Beauty touched to become Sleeping Beauty.

Usually, they were considered to be above even the gods, in their role as enforcers of Fate. Zeus was even scared of them. Even though, in some stories, Zeus is able to command them. But these are rare.

The word Moirai (also spelt Moirae or Moerae) comes from Ancient Greek. This means “lots, destinies, apportioners.” It also means a portion, or lot of the whole.

In Dante’s Divine Comedy, the Fates are mentioned in both Inferno & Purgatorio by their Greek names. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the Weird Sisters (or 3 Witches) are prophetesses, who are deeply rooted in both the real & supernatural worlds.

The Moirai are:

• Clotho, the spinner. She spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle. Her Roman equal was Nona (“the 9th”), who was originally called upon in the 9th month of pregnancy.
• Lachesis, the allotter or drawer of lots. She measured the thread of life allotted to each person with her measuring rod. Her Roman equal was Decima (“the 10th”).
• Atropos, “inexorable,” or inevitable,” literally “unturning.” She was the cutter of the thread of life. She chose the manner of each person’s death. When their time has come, she would cut their life-thread with her shears. Think about the end of Disney’s Hercules, when our main man, Herc, went to save Meg from Hades’ domain. Herc’s life-thread turned gold when he saved. Her Roman equal was Morta (“the dead one”).

In the Republic of Plato, the 3 Moirai sing together with the music of the Seirenes. Lachesis sings the things that were, Clotho the things that are, & Atropos the things that are to be. Pindar, in his Hymn to the Fates, holds them in high honor. He calls them to send their sisters, the Hours (Eunomia, “lawfulness”; Dike, “right”; & Eirene, “peace”), to stop the internal civil strife.

In the Theogony, Hesiod describes the Moirai as daughters of the primeval goddess Nyx (“night”), & the sisters of the Keres (“the black fates”), Thanatos (“death”), & Nemesis (“retribution”). Later in the poem, Hesiod instead calls them daughters of Zeus & the Titaness Themis (“the Institutor”), who was the embodiment of divine order & law. This places them as sisters of the Hours.

In the cosmogony of Alcman (7th century BC), first came Thetis (“disposer, creation”) & then simultaneously Poros (“path”) & Tekmor (“end post, ordinance”). Poros is related to the end of all things.

Later, in the Orphic cosmogony, first came Thesis, whose ineffable nature is unexpected. Ananke (“necessity”) is the primeval goddess of inevitability who is entwined with the time-god Chronos, at the very beginning of time. They represented the cosmic forces of Fate & Time. They were sometimes called to control the fates of the gods. The 3 Moirai are daughters of Ananke.

In the Theogony of Hesiod, the 3 Moirai are personified as the daughters of Nyx & are acting the gods. Later they were daughters of Zeus & Themis, who was the embodiment of divine order & law. In Pluto’s Republic, the 3 Fates are daughters of Ananke (necessity).

The Moirai were supposed to appear 3 nights after a kid’s birth to determine the course of its life. At Sparta, the Temple to the Moirai stood near the communal hearth of the polis. Polis means “city” in Ancient Greek.

As the goddesses of birth who even prophesied the fate of the newly born, Elieithyia, the ancient Minoan goddess of childbirth & divine midwifery, was their companion.

The Erinyes, a group of chthonic goddesses of vengeance, served as tools of the Moirai. Chthonic means concerning, belonging to, or inhabiting the underworld. They inflicted punishment for evil deeds, particularly upon those who sought to avoid their rightful destiny. The Morai were confused with the Erinyes, as well as the death-goddesses, the Keres.

In earlier times, they were pictured as only a few, or perhaps only 1, individual goddess Homer’s Illiad speaks generally of the Moira, who spins the thread of life for men at their birth. She’s Moria Krataia, “powerful Moira,” or there are several Moirai.

In the Odyssey, there’s a reference to the Klothes, or spinners. At Delphi, only the Fates of Birth & Death were revered. In Athens, Aphrodite was called Aphrodite Urania, the “eldest of the Fates.”

In the older myths, they’re daughters of primeval beings like Nyx (“night”) in Theogony, or Ananke in Orphic cosmogony.

The Moirai could be placated as goddesses. Brides in Athens offered them locks of hair, & women swore by them. They may have originated as a birth goddesses & only later their reputation as the agents of destiny. The Moirai were also credited to be the inventors of 7 Greek letters – A, B, H, I, T, & Y.

The Fates had at least 3 known temples: Ancient Corinth, Sparta, & Thebes. The temple in Sparta was situated next to the grave/tomb of Orestes.

Make a one-time donation

Your contribution is appreciated.

Donate

Make a monthly donation

Your contribution is appreciated.

Donate monthly

Make a yearly donation

Your contribution is appreciated.

Donate yearly

Rate this:

#7thCenturyBC #Alcman #Allotter #Ananke #AncientGreek #Aphrodite #AphroditeUrania #Athens #Atropos #Chronos #Chtonic #Clotho #Corinth #Dante #DanteSInferno #Death #Decima #Delphi #Destiny #Dike #Disney #DivineComedy #Eirene #Elieithyia #Eunomia #Fate #Fates #Grave #Greek #GreekMythology #Hesiod #Homer #HymnOfTheFates #Illiad #Institutor #Klothes #Lachesis #Macbeth #Midwifery #Moerae #MoiraKrataia #Moirai #Morta #Nemesis #Night #Nona #Nyx #Odyssey #Orestes #Orphic #Parcae #Pindar #Plato #Polis #Poros #Pregnancy #Prophetesses #Purgatorio #Republic #Roman #Seirenes #Shakespeare #Shears #SleepingBeauty #Sparta #Spindle #Spinner #Spinners #Tekmor #Thanatos #TheErinyes #TheHours #TheKeres #TheMoira #TheMoirae #Thebes #Themis #Theogony #Thesis #ThreeWitches #Time #Titaness #tomb #WeirdSisters #Zeus

Hm, you havt to scroll down #Eunomia a bit not to see its about “eugen gets money from cops“.

From Oct 29 to Oct 31, there is a 'misinformation hunt' organised by #EUNOMIA where an unspecified number of additional misinformation as well as credible posts are being added to mastodon.eunomia.social.

If you wish to see how good you are at spotting misinformation, it will be great to see you on the pilot instance over these three days!

#Truth is important, but not as much as how we get to that truth. People used to believe, based on religions, that the sun rotates around the earth, until it was - despite fierce objection - disproven with science.

To dispel lies and promote truth, education is key. We must learn - and teach - that truth does not come from some popularity contest or word of the mouth, but from objective inquiries, observations, and analysis.

Looking at you, #truthsocial and #eunomia!

Participating to the #Eunomia test. The issue they try to address is real, but I doubt they can solve it, and at first glance, it seems a lot of money was spent for such a simple test.

Lancio pilota pubblico di EUNOMIA

Ecco l'annuncio sul blog ufficiale di #Mastodon

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/eunomia-public-pilot-launch/

Il progetto #eunomia serve per rilevare la #disinformazione in rete ed è ora disponibile per i test:

https://mastodon.eunomia.social

account su mastodon:

@Eunomia

una piattaforma che risponda a:

📍 Quale utente dei #socialmedia è la fonte originale di un'informazione?

📍 Come questa informazione si è diffusa ed è stata modificata?

📍 Quanto è probabile che l'informazione sia affidabile?

So #eunomia is basically a precursor of personal editors from Neal Stephenson's "Dodge in Hell". https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/eunomia-public-pilot-launch/

Neal is a scary accurate futurist. Ameristan has pretty much happened, too.

Testing #eunomia

Already on #Eunomia, someone posted "Everything I post is a lie." Should I click on Truth or Lie?

Starting to experiment with #Eunomia, the social network to sort out truths from lies.

Great news! The counter-misinformation tool @Eunomia finally is publicly available as a pilot version! 🇪🇺 🥳

It's basically a #Mastodon server with additional features that help you "critically analyze social media posts before re-sharing them".

Unless the users wish otherwise, the pilot phase will last 1 week.

Try it out at https://mastodon.eunomia.social!

@Gargron's announcement: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/eunomia-public-pilot-launch/

#misinformation #FakeNews #SocialMedia #eunomia #EunomiaProject #eu #EuropeanUnion

Great news! The counter-misinformation tool @Eunomia finally is publicly available as a pilot version! 🇪🇺 🥳

It's basically a #Mastodon server with additional features that help you "critically analyze social media posts before re-sharing them".

Unless the users wish otherwise, the pilot phase will last 1 week.

Try it out at https://mastodon.eunomia.social!

@Gargron's announcement: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/eunomia-public-pilot-launch/

#misinformation #FakeNews #SocialMedia #eunomia #EunomiaProject #eu #EuropeanUnion

Your digital companion for detecting misinformation is now available for testing 🎉

You can now head over to https://mastodon.eunomia.social/ to sign up for the first public #EUNOMIA pilot!

@Gargron @aral

I'm kind of glad you're still willing to respond, even if you feel the spin of my message is disturbing. Honestly, I feel the same about your message.

And what I'm missing is a respond to my actual concerns. You're playing a rhetoric that is distracting from it, making it sound as if it would be a respond, but all you say is "whataboutism".
Yes sure many other projects exists, BUT I'm speaking not about others, I'm speaking about those you collaborate with.

Here some quotes of what the companies that are part of #EUnomia and that you work with are involved in:

#INOV
- "Combating irregular migration...",
- "...a surveillance system of the European Union (EU) that uses drones, reconnaissance aircraft, offshore sensors and satellite remote sensing, to track illegal immigration..."
- "INOV has been developing new brand new concepts, such as...suspicious behaviour detection."

1/2

@aral @Gargron
btw, keep in mind that this FAQ is already some years old. I made it some month after the colaboration was announced.

What remains:
Cooperation with very troublesome institutions happened, and Gargron never really responded to these concerns beside saying that it's all opt in.

The knowledge that those institutions could gather, is something they'll use in accordance to their own missions (citizen control, policing, border control, social movement interruption, surveillance). How much the knowledge they could gather is for their goals, is only something #EUnomia members could answer.

I still demand, that everything that you (Gargron) earned through working with EUnomia, to be gifted to some anti-border migrant org or some indigenous struggle.

The buzz over #Eunomia faded quickly I think so it's good to be reminded that "eugen is paid by the cops" .

Thanks @noyovo for just doing so!

I want to remind that #EUnomia is a research project funded with around 3 millions, also aiming to investigate the #fediverse.

companies leading #projectEUnomia are also involved in:

- mass surveilience
- military and law enforcment
- developing strategies and tools countering mass movements
- countering local journalism with clickbait

@Gargron is/was on their pay check with at least €63,290.

several month ago I made some research about them and puplished it here:
https://hub.libranet.de/wiki/paulfree14/The(20)critical(20)EUnomia(20)FAQ/Home
there's also an easy to remember shortlink available: https://frama.link/eunomia

One of the questions I am asked at the #Eunomia meeting, are there any politicians/journalists using Mastodon? Help me out