Penelope’s great web: the violent interruption - Classical Inquiries

In many cultures, there are goddesses who are the spinners and weavers of fate.

The Norns often are depicted weaving fate on a loom, another motif common to several mythological traditions. On an upright loom, the warp of a textile always has a pattern, inherent from the beginning and determined by the threading of the heddles. It is made by the decisions of the weaver, but cannot be fully perceived until the cloth nears its f