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NECESSITAS (Gr. 'Avery Ktj )

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 335 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NAN-NEW
NECESSITAS (Gr. 'Avery Ktj ) , in Orphic theology, the personification of
absolute
  necessity. She appears as the
mother
  of the Moerae (Fates), as the wife of Demiurgus (Fashioner of the World) and
mother
  of Heimarmene (Destiny). Her
power
  is irresistible, even greater than that of the gods; to her was due the strife (battles with
Titans
 , Giants) that raged amongst them of old, before the
rule
  of love began; the world revolves round the spindle, which she holds in her lap. According to the Egyptian theory, she is one of the four deities present at the
birth
  of every human being, her companions being the Daemon (guardian spirit), Tyche (Fortune) and Eros. On the citadel of
Corinth
  there was a temple sacred to her and Bia (Violence), which none were permitted to enter. The Roman Necessitas is represented in the well-known ode of
Horace
  (i. 35) as the fore-runner and companion of Fortuna, holding in her brazen hand
huge nails, a clamp and molten lead, symbolical of fixedness and tenacity.
See Plato, Rep. 616 c, Symp. 195 c, 197 B;
Macrobius
 , Saturnalia, I. 19; Pausanias ii. 4. 6.335


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