Ananke
Ananke is an Orphic goddess.
↻ synthesized from 7 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Worshiped in a temple in ancient Corinth alongside Bia, documented by the ancient Greek traveller Pausanias.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Peitho, Heimarmene, Aesa, Moros, Pepromene, Isis, Rhea, Cybele, Gaia, Zeus, Mnemosyne, Moira, Apollo, Dionysus, Ouranos, Nyx
- sibling of
- Chronos
- parent of
- the Fates
- syncretized with
- Aphrodite, Aphrodite Urania, Necessitas
- has aspect
- Adrasteia
- child of
- Aphrodite
Mentioned by
- Isis
- Rhea
- Cybele
- Gaia
- Zeus
- Mnemosyne
- Moira
- Apollo
- Dionysus
- Ouranos
- Nyx
- Adrasteia
- Aphrodite
- Moirai
- Lakhesis
- Klotho
and 2 more
Sources
Source passages
“Adrastea, a name for the Orphic goddess Ananke.”
#27501 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Ananke (Necessity), the personification of inevitability”
#27533 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“For this ordered world (cosmos) is of a mixed birth: it is the offspring of a union of Necessity and Intellect. Intellect prevailing over Necessity by persuading it to direct most of the things that come to be toward what is best”
#27588 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“there was a sanctuary to Bia and Ananke near Acrocorinth”
#27866 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Heimarmene or Himarmene (; Ancient Greek: Εἱμαρμένη) is a goddess and being of fate/destiny in Greek mythology (in particular, the orderly succession of cause and effect, or rather, the fate of the universe as a whole, as opposed to the destinies of individual people). She belongs to a family of similar beings of destiny and fate, which have given us various modern concepts (such as Aesa, Moira, Moros, Ananke, Adrasteia and Pepromene).”
#28461 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001