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The Moirai… Clothos, Atropos, and Lachesis! This piece was on exhibition this past summer and fall and I finally got a chance to scan it. I’ve seen many wonderful interpretations of death and the Fates from Greek Mythology, and I wanted to try my...
Hecatoncheires means "hundred handed". They were gigantic and had fifty heads and one hundred arms each of great strength. There were three of them: Briareus also called Aegaeon, Cottus, and Gyges also called Gyes. They were born to Gaea and Uranus. Their mutual hatered of Uranus caused him to force the Hecatoncheires back into Gaea's womb.One of them, Briareus, served as Zeus's bodyguard.