Moors (mythologie)


For homonymous articles, see Moros.

In Greek mythology, Moros (in ancient Greek Μόρος / Móros, "fatal destiny", "violent death") or Olethros (Ὄλεθρος / Ólethros, "destruction", "last hour") is a deity personifying the routing to a relentless spell. It corresponds to Fatum among the Romans.

It is mentioned for the first time in Hesiod's Theogony, which speaks of the "odious Moros" and makes it the son of Nyx (Night), which she would have conceived alone like many other allegorical deities . However, Hygin and Cicero give him Erebus as a father.

In Quintus de Smyrne, he is associated in particular with the Kères on the battlefield, of which he constitutes a male counterpart. Moros is represented by a tornado. Sourceschange the code

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