Thenaud's book also includes this image, which reminded me of the "thread" running through some of the VMS imagery. As far as I can tell, it represents the three Fates (the Moirai) although it is labeled oddly (the one on the right is labeled the same as the one on the left and probably was meant to be Clotho). Atropos, Lachesis, and Clotho (who was traditionally the spinner).
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The Berlin sculpture of the Fates (available on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) interestingly does not appear to show a distaff or spindle, it somewhat looks like a piece of cloth wrapped around a distaff (or spindle). It's as though it has a dual nature (like the VMS), showing the beginning (the staff) and the end result (the cloth). This duality also seems appropriate in that our worth "cloth" comes from Clotho, the spinner, but also makes me wonder if the odd looking "spindle", the weird red thing that looks like a douche bag, could be a spindle wrapped in cloth?
P.S., does anyone know why other images are showing up and mine aren't? This wasn't happening before.
The Berlin sculpture of the Fates (available on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) interestingly does not appear to show a distaff or spindle, it somewhat looks like a piece of cloth wrapped around a distaff (or spindle). It's as though it has a dual nature (like the VMS), showing the beginning (the staff) and the end result (the cloth). This duality also seems appropriate in that our worth "cloth" comes from Clotho, the spinner, but also makes me wonder if the odd looking "spindle", the weird red thing that looks like a douche bag, could be a spindle wrapped in cloth?
P.S., does anyone know why other images are showing up and mine aren't? This wasn't happening before.