Ananke — Dizionario inglese

Nome proprio

1. A Greek goddess, personification of destiny, necessity and fate, depicted as holding a spindle.

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   • Greek

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   “‘To tell you that the eternities beget chaos, and that the immensities are at the mercy of the divine ananke. Infinitude crouches before a personality. The mercurial essence is the prime mover in spirituality, and the thinker is powerless before the pulsating inanity. The cosmical procession is terminated only by the unknowable and unpronounceable’——

2. A moon of Jupiter.